JupiterResearch reports marketers, publishers and other sites have big plans for the coming year, with about half planning two to four major site development projects for 2004. Almost a quarter will spend more than $1 million, compared to one out...
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The U.S. Commerce Department reported that online sales, not including travel or other services, grew 28 percent, reaching about 1.9 percent of all sales. That's up from about 1.6 percent the same quarter the year before. Sales for the fourth...
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A small number of websites - some very large, like Microsoft's - were taken off of Google briefly when a disgruntled website owner exploited a bug in Google's page removal system. The owner claimed that the same method had been...
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Elizabeth Lloyd points out the ferment seen nowadays in online Hispanic marketing. Media companies are partnering with large brands and Hispanic content creators to form new channels to reach Latin American users. Yahoo just created a new Spanish sports channel...
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SiliconValley.com: Online retailer retreats on IPO
Web book retailer Alibris admitted that it overestimated the frothiness of the web IPO market when it announced it planned to take in tens of millions of dollars for a smallish stake it its unprofitable...
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Portraying the rapid recovery of ad dollars in the online world as less of a fad than it appeared in 1999, SF Gate interviewed a variety of online sellers to ask why it's different this time around. The consensus: many...
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Wireless companies are beating the drum that Americans are finally adopting wireless media. About one in six U.S. citizens surveyed by Enpocket say they have a mobile phone and use text messaging. About half that amount use picture phones, according...
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Bill Gates talked up blogs to a conference room full of major corporate executives, explaining how they have advantages over email or more mundane websites. Gates may be particularly sensitive to the problems management often has in setting cultural tone,...
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The Sitepoint Tribune sampled 40,000 visitors and found that almost two thirds did not get to see pop-ups it attempted to display. About a quarter of users had JavaScript disabled, preventing the spawing of the new windows. About another 34...
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eMarketer reports that an Interland study shows just about all small businesses think the web is an important channel for them. But Interland is an Internet services provider and only interviewed its own customers. The study does make for nice...
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Emerging Audit announced today its launch of an email audit product that will tell marketers whether or not campaigns went out on schedule, if they hit the intended demographics, that spam prevention policies were followed properly and how the emails...
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