Michigan topped the Center for Digital Government's listing of tech-savvy states this year, proving superior in service delivery, architecture, collaboration and leadership. Since the survey started, many states have introduced new web features such as tax payments, lost asset searches,...
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Rick Bruner reports on what might be a new PayPal scam, whereby a company in Florida (of course) sends out $200 invoices to people claiming that the charges are for compensation for having been spammed. The message tells recipients that...
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Tech firms continued their climb up the brand lists, with Apple Computer, Amazon, Yahoo and Samsung shown to be big gainers, according to a fairly subjective rating done by consultancy Interbrand. Apple's iPod business helped jump up its brand, but...
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A business-oriented political group is partnering with about half the Fortune 100 companies to market business friendly issues to their roughly 20 million employees. The Business Industry Political Action Committee (BIPAC) uses email marketing and specially-developed websites. Federal Elections Commission...
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InterActiveCorp (IAC) announced it will buy ServiceMagic, a firm that mates home contractors, lenders and other service providers with consumers, often through the web. IAC, an Internet firm conglomerate will pay an undisclosed amount of cash for the company, adding...
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eBay grew another 42 percent over last year's second quarter, selling $8 billion of stuff, with an increasing proportion of it being sold through its "buy it now" option, taking these goods out of its auction system. More than a...
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Google shares will bow in a range between $108 and $135, raising a total of between $2.7 billion and $3.3 billion, one of the largest initial public offerings ever. Google will trade on the NASDAQ under the GOOG ticker symbol....
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Blinkx, a search engine development effort reported earlier finally launched its application that learns - through user behavior and hard drive content - what sorts of searches might be useful, even before a user decides to conduct a search. The...
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Coinciding with the political establishment's recent embracing of blogs and - heaven forbid - bloggers, the chief of blog ad network Blogads reports that traffic and ad revenues are growing enormously. Several recent individual days of revenue outdid the billings...
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Google reduced its international presence in a small way by taking down its Azerbaijani site. Google had been the most popular international search site for the tiny country sandwiched between Russia and Iran on the Caspian Sea. Baku Today speculated...
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The very funny Flash animation put together by JibJab.com to poke fun at both major presidential contenders rocketed the JibJab site traffic well past both that of George Bush and John Kerry's own campaign websites. Traffic zoomed up by about...
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A three-judge arbitration panel ruled that Google's challenge to the 2001 issuance of the Froogles.com domain name didn't have any merit. Google complained that the Froogles.com brand name was too close to its own. The issue takes on great importance...
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