The British for years have made fun of the U.S. for our ridiculous turn to political correctness and general lack of humor. Now it seems the British are becoming just like us. British Internet bank Egg sent an email newsletter...
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Blue Nile, the e-tailer of gems and jewelry, announced its expected public offering will be priced within a range to give it a market capitalization of about $320 million. The shares will be priced within a range between $17.50 and...
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The omnivorious Toronto-based ad agency holding company MDC bought Henderson Bas, a 40-person agency better known under its recent name Ninedots. Last month the agency - completely understandably - changed its name due to what it said was a "copyright...
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It was no surprise that a recent study on teens' use of newspapers found that the young people didn't feel attached to the medium. But buried in its depths is an interesting observation that may wind up benefiting the Internet:...
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DoubleClick's strategy of getting agencies to act as distribution partners, recommending their tools to the agencies' client rosters, seems to be working, as it signed up still more firms to push its analysis tools. San Francisco-based fathom hopped on board,...
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A Federal Trade Commission hearing on spyware allowed various players to air their concerns, but they seemed to agree on very little. Software companies voiced concern that ill-tailored laws would create liability for them and reduce Internet innovation (to which,...
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Branding wags may argue whether or not it's the good sort of traffic or not, but the April 1 launch of Burger King's "Subservient Chicken" site definitely drove traffic. A Hitwise chart prepared specially for MarketingVOX shows that, in addition...
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In a sign that perhaps the new market recovery of Internet stocks may be following the original path of over exuberance, Alibris announced it would like to go public with a $25 million offering. Alibris is a seller of rare...
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This time privacy advocates got specific, lodging multiple privacy complaints against Google's new Gmail service in the E.U.'s current 15 state divisions as well as the sovereign nations of Australia and Canada. The London-based Privacy International group noted that E.U....
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Libertarian group Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) announced it would try to break ten silly patents in an attempt to curb abuse of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's incompetence in granting obvious non-innovations. First on the list is the infamous...
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Ad Age reports that agency income in 2003 increased a paltry 3.4 percent to about $10.6 billion. The fact that last year's growth amounted to only 0.6 percent and the year before even saw a decline of 2.2 percent, it...
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Blogger Dana Van points praisingly to ad implimentations done in Really Simple Syndication (RSS) format. Showing screenshots of Lockergnome's web development site, the ads appear as entries with different background colors and even graphics....
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