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Verizon Downgraded, AOL Ad Tech Seen Lagging Google

Verizon Communications (VZ) overpaid for AOL, says Macquarie Capital, which downgraded Verizon stock on Tuesday, saying the AOL deal is Verizon’s latest questionable strategic move. Despite having cobbled together assets to support mobile video services, Verizon faces an uphill battle in mobile advertising vs. Facebook (FB) and Google (GOOGL), asserts Macquarie. Verizon agreed to buy AOL (AOL) on Tuesday for $4.4 billion. The acquisition will give

GoDaddy Views: Edge Over Rivals, But Google Looms

A multitude of coverage initiations greeted Web-hosting and domain registrar firm GoDaddy (GDDY) on Monday, 40 days after its IPO and a day ahead of its earnings report. The upshot among the analysts’ reports: GoDaddy could have an edge in the small-business market over rivals such as Web.com (WWWW), Endurance International Group (EIG) and Wix.com (WIX), but Google (GOOGL) looms as a long-term threat. GoDaddy reports Q1 earnings after the close

Google’s Apple Contract: No News Is Good News?

Tech bloggers are speculating that an Apple (AAPL) project aims to build a search engine rival to Google, while Wall street analysts are still in the dark on Apple’s renewal of a contract that makes Google the default for mobile Safari toolbar searches. A flurry of reports that began late last year and into the spring speculated that Google’s (GOOGL) search contract with Apple would expire in early 2015. A Goldman Sachs survey of iPhone users in