Yahoo bought FareChase, an online travel aggregator site, for an undisclosed sum. Most of the 25 FareChase employees will move over to the Yahoo headquarters and eventually incorporate the smaller firm's fare finding technology into Yahoo Travel. Currently, Yahoo has...
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Stickiness is back in fashion. But this sticky is different from the much lauded sticky that proved popular in the late 90's, when media firms hoped to generate more hits and visitors in order to better beat their figurative chests...
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Internet sales leads might be up 250 percent for GM dealers, but now they're going to cost a bit more now. General Motors is outsourcing dealer website development to The Cobalt Group, which already handled 3,000 dealer sites. The new...
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24/7 Real Media saw revenues increase 61 percent last quarter, but failed to earn a profit outside of a one-time legal settlement. Without the $2.9 million from a legal award from Chinadotcom, 24/7 would have posted a loss of about...
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Yahoo, whose search division Overture has a very large and profitable relationship with adware creator Claria, updated its anti spyware software "Anti-Spy" so that it fingers the Claria software and other adware as objects requiring user scrutiny. Both Claria and...
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The headlines on BBC and CNET got it wrong. Online advertising isn't set to slow, but its growth rate inevitably will. At least that's what the new JupiterResearch study coming out today says, predicting that last year's 65 percent growth...
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A British online advertising vendor's study showed that five out of six U.K. web users had clicked on an online ad. In fact, the ability to click through ads and deal immediately with the companies was cited as the single...
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It seems to bug Republican bloggers that the Democrats have been using their blogs to such effect in fundraising. Some are trying to even the score with RedState.org, a group sort of like a Republican MoveOn.org that tries to throw...
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