aQuantive, owner of the AtlasDMT products and various i-agencies, blew away expectations on its second quarter earnings yesterday evening, posting 11 cents a share of profits, versus 3 cents a year ago and versus expectations of only 6 cents. Its...
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Men continue to dominate the demographics of Internet news sites, which isn't really causing much alarm in an industry that more often has difficulty reaching men. Newspapers are taking the attitude that they can enjoy the slightly higher-CPM demo now...
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It was once that just adware companies worried about getting painted with an overly-broad "spyware" brush, but now mainstream sites that use cookies for tracking are also finding themselves more and more lumped into the same bucket. A study by...
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WPP bought a 22-person digital shop in the U.K. after it won business from that country's health department, Vodafone and Motorola. Digit will join Good Technology, Incline and XM London in WPP's digital grab bag GT Network. Revolution reports....
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ValueClick announced during an earnings release yesterday that it had bought European shopping portal Pricerunner. ValueClick will pay $29 million in cash and stock (which might be a bit less now, as the after-market trading pummeled ValueClick for a very...
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Search engine marketers report that increased demand has made for steeply increased prices on major search engine systems Google and Overture. Some are turning to the estimated 525 alternative paid search providers. Still others are exploring the proliferating contextual networks...
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Canvassing a bunch of intellectual property lawyers, Wired reports that the JibJab Media case against would-be copyright enforcer Ludlow Music seems pretty cut-and-dried. It seems everyone agrees that the JibJab political parody that used a Woody Guthrie song - the...
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The Federal Communications Commission voted to ban unsolicited commercial messages sent to mobile phones. Most interestingly, the spam definition used in this rule making includes all non-opt-in commercial messages, without making the various exceptions that currently apply in the email...
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Microsoft's anti-spam identity validation technology, Sender ID, is set to be put forward as an official web standard by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). The technology is a simple list of domains and the corresponding IP addresses from which...
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