Privacy has exceeded the bounds of calm discussion, according to a Direct Marketing Association executive, becoming a football for a melange of political interests, commercial interests, libertarians and even the odd nutcase. More than 500 bills were introduced into various...
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With a CMGI acquisition announced yesterday and the impending Google IPO in the offing, Shopping.com's announcement of a $75 million public offering makes the industry seem downright frothy. The firm, with about $70 million in sales last year, still has...
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The funereal and memorial industry, a enormous bricks and mortar category in the U.S., is making a grab at the online space, attempting to stake out plots of Internet space for the bereaved. In what could be seen as a...
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Adding to the drumbeat of studies showing the effectiveness of online advertising in helping brands of consumer goods, MSN published a study showing that adding online media to consumer product goods advertising boosted actual sales by as much as an...
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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer made coy comments when pressed on rumors that the leviathan software company would acquire AOL. "What I would advise to you is don't read too much into [the rumors,] and some of them will actually come...
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In a survey conducted by Nielsen, eBay showed that about half of small businesses believed the web helped make their firms more profitable. One in six even agreed that the Internet is key to their very survival. Only a quarter...
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Major publishing and blog platform vendor Six Apart - maker of Movable Type - will soon introduce a new type of "comment spam" zapper that they hope will eliminate the annoying, useless messages littering many sites' comment sections. The company...
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A new study shows that Internet retailers often deceive themselves by mixing different forms of data to draw broad conclusions. For instance, combining government data on spending and market size together with metrics from a company's website often will produce...
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