Google registered to be listed on the Nasdaq exchange after its initial public offering, thought to be coming out sometime this summer. No date has been officially set. CNET reports....
continue reading »
Email service provider Digital Impact announced it is buying Marketleap, a search engine marketing firm for $2.75 million in cash and stock. Digital impact said that Marketleap, which counts SMARTPages and Tyco Electronics among its clients, will contribute about $1.5...
continue reading »
Domain management firm Zetetic launched a new utility that keeps track of domain name holdings and their changing appraised values. Several firms offer one-time domain name appraisals, but the new product will continually reappraise values over time for a subscription...
continue reading »
Portals, Yahoo among them, are looking to branding to keep the revenue momentum going strong. Branding advertising clients seem to be pretty happy with results, with the vast majority of them signing on again this year. But while Yahoo may...
continue reading »
Through devices like Google's AdWords and the Blogads network, bloggers are beginning to book some cash for their online diaries. And, for some, it isn't just chump change, with some blogs taking in thousands of dollars a month, raising the...
continue reading »
Yahoo will buy Oddpost, an innovative Internet email service that boasts features most often found in commercial email applications like Eudora. Oddpost has earned a reputation for adding or even inventing new features, such as drag-and-drop interface elements and automating...
continue reading »
NetRatings reports that broadband has reached just shy of half of U.S. homes. Almost 63 million American households have access to broadband Internet. That, in turn, is driving much more Internet use, with the average broadband household spending about 70...
continue reading »
Search engines are proving great at letting searchers figure out what product to buy, but sometimes it's harder to figure out just where to go and buy it. Even as Google and Overture introduce products that allow for localized business...
continue reading »
Online sales were again over $1 billion for the week ending June 27, making the first half of 2004 register gains of 25 percent over the same period in 2003. The online sales for the week were up 31 percent...
continue reading »
Agency.com, recent acquirer of i-agency Exile on Seventh, put the industry on notice that it's not necessarily finished its buying spree. "We're coming out of depressed market conditions over the past couple of years, and we're seeing quality assets that...
continue reading »
Ad:TECHBlog is active once more, covering the Chicago conference, the party action, the who's who, and even the hotel's wifi and air conditioning woes. Five correspondents are attending all the sessions and eating excessively fatty meals so that you don't...
continue reading »
Marketers knew that higher search listings were a good thing, but a study done by aQuantive's Atlas Institute shows just how much an effect relative placement has in paid search. Every place down from the top listing generated an average...
continue reading »
MediaPost reports on a graduate student's research into potentially shady affiliate practices of 180 solutions, an adware firm. By throwing up double pop-ups and invisible pop-ups, Benjamin Edelman alleged that 180 Solutions effectively credited itself with responsibility for sales that...
continue reading »
