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Hampered by Debt, Zango Shuts Down
Controversial adware firm Zango was sold last week, following a bank foreclosure after its failure to honor over $44 million worth of debts.
The company launched over a decade ago as 180solutions, after which it changed its moniker several times: 180solutions and Hotbar, before concluding its trajectory as Zango. Security firms -- to which it often conveyed threatening letters, and the occasional lawsuit -- gave it flak for installing potentially harmful a [...]
Posted: Thursday, April 23rd 2009
Few Celebrations for 5th Anniversary of Dot-Com Crash
Executive Summary commemorates the fifth year anniversary (that would be the "wood anniversary") of the NASDAQ's internet bubble peak. Yes, it really did reach 5,049 five years ago today.
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Posted: Thursday, March 10th 2005
Pop-Ups Decline in Number, Effectiveness
A Wired report shows that pop-up ads are going the way of the cheesy synthesized website sound track - relegated to fewer and fewer sites because uses just can't stand them. But, in a big difference, the stalwart sites continuing to sell pop-ups to advertisers aren't the more obscure publishers. They are sites like The New York Times and, CNN and ABC. A media director at Agency.com said his company bought only 2 [...]
Posted: Thursday, March 3rd 2005
180solutions Fighting Affiliate 'Crammers' that Turn Adware to Spyware
MediaPost reports adware firm 180solutions is revising its software to help combat stealth downloads and is joining an anti-spyware nonprofit. 180solutions CEO Keith Smith said the new roll-out, to take place over the first quarter, will prevent the software from being capable of being loaded onto a person's computer without their explicit permission. Reportedly, some affiliates have managed to cram the software onto unsuspec [...]
Posted: Monday, January 17th 2005
Internet Ad Complaints Level Off in U.K.
SITE: Online ads draw record complaints
England's ad regulation agency reported that ads drew a record number of complaints in 2003, but the Internet's - perhaps surprisingly - bag of complaints grew only about 8 percent to 1,100. Five other media came in ahead of the Internet: mail, posters, newspapers and magazines.
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Posted: Thursday, April 22nd 2004
AOL May Face SEC Charges on Online Ad Bookings
Washington Post: SEC seen readying AOL ad charges
Only a day after the story that AOL is winning back agency hearts and minds with a rebuilt and reinvigorated sales force, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) let the other shoe drop, making public the "Wells notice" that signifies the formalization of an investigation into what the SEC believes was $400 million of improperly booked r [...]
Posted: Tuesday, April 13th 2004
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