Digitas to Cut Every 25th Worker

Digitas said it will cut 50 jobs - about one in 25 of its staff - due mostly to AT&T and Delta Air Lines cutting back their spending with the firm. It also alluded to a "creation of excess capacity,"... continue reading »

Toys 'R' Us Gets Order Against Amazon.com

A New Jersey state judge has been mostly finding for Toys 'R' Us in its contract dispute with Amazon.com. Toys 'R' Us complained that Amazon was ignoring the exclusive arrangements they had agreed to together, allowing other toy retailers to... continue reading »

MSNBC Bows Classifieds

News site MSNBC is launching its own newspaper classifieds online, providing jobs, real estate, cars, personals and general merchandise. The company will partner with major existing classifieds listers in each category, including eBay, CareerBuilder, Cars.com, Homegain.com, Match.com and Expedia.... continue reading »

Local Search Stinks, to Grow Slowly

Nate Elliott explained why his JupiterResearch study gave such short shrift to local search, predicting it will grow at a slower rate than other search media: he says these new local search engines still stink. Pointing out that today's local... continue reading »

Warner Music Caught Spamming Blogs

Warner Brothers Records got caught in its ham-handed effort to get bloggers to push its new Secret Machines album release. While winning some praise for directly engaging bloggers and handing over an MP3 file for them to post (perhaps their... continue reading »

Unwanted Sales Emails to Hike by Two Thirds, Push Marketers to Newsletters

JupiterResearch's onslaught of future predictions continues with the prognostication that online users will get more than 6,000 unwanted commercial emails a piece in 2008, up by almost two thirds from last year. In part as answer to this clutter, advertisers... continue reading »

Feedster Brings Ads to RSS

Feedster, the aggregator of RSS syndicated content feeds from websites, is rolling out advertising links in its search results. The ads will appear every sixth link at first in just the search results and later in other feeds. Ad sales... continue reading »

SEC Reportedly Unworried about Playboy Interview

The Securities and Exchange Commission reportedly said Google's initial public offering does not have to be delayed after a Playboy interview with its founders appeared on newsstands the same day the company began accepting bids for shares. The report said... continue reading »

eBay Takes Piece of Craigslist

Community site Craigslist saw a quarter of its equity - previously granted to a partner - sold to eBay for what the New York Times speculated was likely in the "low tens of millions" of dollars. Craigslist is strong in... continue reading »

B2B Ad Dollars Leaving Print

Business-to-business ad pages are down in print, falling another three percent. The shift has been a drumbeat of pessimism in business-to-business print advertising, whereas online ads are growing in leaps and bounds. Unclear in the shift of ad budgets is... continue reading »

Automakers Choking Sales Leads

Automakers are dropping the sales ball online, says both Forrester Research and JupiterResearch in new reports. The Forrester report reports that almost a third of car buyers are flocking to the Internet to choose a car, and even asking for... continue reading »

Research Paper Hints at Microsoft Search's Special Sauce

SearchEngineLowdown reports that Jason Dowdell has found some interesting published Microsoft tidbits that better explain how it may plan to trump Google and Yahoo with a new type of search engine in the coming quarters. The PDF document seems to... continue reading »