PETA, that bastion of terrible taste, certifiable insanity and incredibly creative and over-the top PR stunts, showed up yesterday at St Patrick's Cathedral with a Popemobile displaying their 10-foot statue of a cow dressed as the Pope, complete with a...
continue reading »
Claria, the company formerly known as Gator, filed for an initial public offering. The company said it cleared about $35 million in profits out of about $90 million in revenue last year, making it easily one of the most profitable...
continue reading »
No matter how hard Microsoft huffs and puffs about its upcoming search engine technologies - the most important quality of which seems to be the fact that it will come shackled to everyone's new version of Windows - one little...
continue reading »
Americans can take heart that their Patent Office isn't really the most gullible group of patent examiners in the world. It comes in a close second behind Australia's office, which just granted a patent for, essentially, e-commerce. This is the...
continue reading »
Outmoded "use taxes" - long flouted taxes on goods brought back into one state from another - have been even more consistently flouted in the e-commerce world. But California and New York, along with 17 other states, hope to collect...
continue reading »
A new Pew study shows that about two thirds of the nation's Internet users have used the net for spiritual purposes (and we're not talking this time about geeky online marketers' "worship" of the Internet medium). About half of those...
continue reading »
Bryan Eisenberg reviewed the pros, cons and how-tos on web site search, the search applications that marketers provide visitors of their sites. His review covers when it's appropriate to include search, how to organize results and how to increase the...
continue reading »
Online baseball broadcasters cried foul a few months ago when Microsoft moved in and bought out from under them much of Major League Baseball's exclusive broadcasting rights. Microsoft agreed to pay many times what the broadcasters had previously contracted, sums...
continue reading »
