By Fletcher, Mike Analysis The collapse of takeover talks between Yahoo! and Microsoft boss Steve Ballmer last month saw Yahoo!'s share price plummet by 15 per cent and the Financial Times crown Google chief executive Eric Schmidt victorious in the battle for online search and advertising.

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By Dobson, Chris COMMENT The Ad:Tech event in Shanghai (November 15 to 17) was by far the largest event of its kind in Asia in the past five years (since Internet World) .This is the first time this internationally reputed conference and exhibition had been staged in China, and the real 'first' is the opportunity arising from local online leaders coming together with international players.