The fact that Google's revenue growth is slowing doesn't come as a surprise to those who knew the "hockey stick" of Google's business model was already so steep, it was pretty much vertical. That's a tough growth rate to maintain....
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Overture signed a deal with Italy's biggest portal, Libero.it, to provide it with Content Match text ads. The deal will help the portal monetize traffic, provided it can keep email subscribers who previously were allowed free POP3 email accounts, but...
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If this is any indication, blogging seems to be growing the fastest of any form of Internet technology to date: "Allow me to give you some growth statistics: One year ago, when I started Technorati on a single server in...
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The Administration's love affair with WPP properties, like Ogilvy and J. Walter Thompson, seems to be coming to an end. Key officials recruited to the Administration after the beginning of the "war on terror" have been quietly allowed to leave,...
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Singingfish, which has indexed nine million rich media streams and powers several multimedia search engines, is now offering paid inclusion. It also has plans for paid placement. Charter advertisers include MovieLink and MGM. MediaPost reports. Steve Hall comments....
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While Nielsen's television rating methodology is not perfect, television executives, in the face of large ratings declines this year, continue their refusal to believe people are leaving their medium for another, the Internet, or even - heaven forbid, spending time...
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AOL is creating a "whitelist" of email marketing companies that agree to abide by its policies, and it will allow them to send graphic-laden emails directly to AOL subscribers. Right now the practice is banned, except for some companies who...
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CNET:
Judge shuts garage opener copyright suit
The overly-broad Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) has been abused by some companies to try to force competing businesses out of their market. The poorly-worded act could be interpreted as allowing any product...
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Direct marketers are fretting over their need to comply with the new California anti-spam law. Some say that it cannot be complied with, even with the best of intentions. DM News reports....
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Napster is adding to its continuing saga of viral videos turned TV spots. Ad Age reports. Steve Hall posts....
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A Portland, Maine man lost his case against AOL for failing to compensate him for the time he spent dealing with spam. The case is interesting not so much for its original premise (that AOL should be responsible for time...
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Despite much carping before the implementation of the Do Not Call Registry, the telemarketing industry isn't firing all of its employees. DM News reports it found four reported telemarketing firm closings, amounting to less than a thousand lay-offs. This might...
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In this article, Keith Regan mentions how Target Direct uses so-called "sitelets" to deliver customized sites that are easier to track separately thanks to their separate and distinct URLs. Since these sites are funded by merchant partners, these partners have...
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When mainstream network TV is showing racy scenes and billboards look like Playboy centerfolds from 1980, how can Yahoo turn down all that revenue from the Adult sector? Apparently, it can't. Half of the top 100 most frequently searched keywords...
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