Yahoo Ruling Against French Overturned

A U.S. appeals court ruled that a lower court was wrong to afford Yahoo protection against a French ruling that ordered it to disallow listing Nazi mementos for sale. The French ruling specified that Yahoo had to take such items... continue reading »

Yahoo Admits Defeat, Allows PayPal

Yahoo announced in its August newsletter that members paying for auction items can now use PayPal, the eBay-owned online payment service. The Unofficial Yahoo Weblog noted that, historically, Yahoo avoided PayPal in favor of its own Yahoo PayDirect, a relatively... continue reading »

Ask Jeeves to Launch Japan Site

Ask Jeeves is set to announce its new Ask Jeeves Japan site, currently in beta. Using its Teoma search engine technology, the site is a partnership with Japan’s Transcosmos, which also holds interests in Atom Shockwave K.K. and DoubleClick Japan.... continue reading »

Google Lets Bloggers Collect AdSense Revs

Following Google's move to replace the AdSense listings in its blogging software with just a web search box, its Blogger Knowledge site kicked off an effort to get bloggers to put up AdSense listings themselves. This will allow the bloggers... continue reading »

Google at Bottom of S&P Governance Ratings

With its two classes of stock, few outside directors and a prospectus that puts its do-gooder philosophy above profits, Google earned the very lowest corporate governance rating of any S&P 500 firm. Out of a possible rating of 100, Google... continue reading »

Investors Eye the Other Search Engines

Now that the Google IPO is off and running and investors actually made money, CNN took a look at who might be "the next Google." Top nominations are Eurekster and Dipsie. Also mentioned are Quigo and Groxis. More likely than... continue reading »

Another RSS Play Gets VC Money

Technorati, the syndicated web feed aggregator, reportedly received about $6.5 million in venture capital funding. In July, PaidContent reported that Feedburner received a six-figure round. And just two months ago, Newsgator, another company geared around RSS feeds was given VC... continue reading »

E-Commerce Satisfaction Up

The annual counting of the American Consumer Satisfaction Index shows that e-commerce made modest improvements, rising 6.5 points to 80.8. in the eyes of American consumers, people are more satisfied with business done online than other types of business, as... continue reading »

Net Adspend Upped 26 Percent

Adspend is up across media, but the internet took the greatest gains, growing 25.9 percent in the first half of 2004 to $3.6 billion, according to CMR. Also seeing double-digit growth were cable TV, syndication, newspapers, and local magazines. Total... continue reading »

E-Commerce Growth Underperforming

Internet sales rose six percent to $1.12 billion for the week ending August 8, according to comScore, less than the amount sales rose generally. Online and offline sales rose 10 percent for the same week, according to ShopperTrak. The underperformance... continue reading »

Forrester: E-Commerce to Hit $300 Billion

Forrester Research predicts that e-commerce will grow to more than $300 billion by 2010. That would mean one in eight retail dollars spent would go through the internet, where today only one in 14 dollars do. Forrester predicts most categories... continue reading »

Ford Media Exec Interviewed

iMedia interviewed Ford Motor Media's Joe Kyriakoza, who said that online media is going gangbusters at the automaker's media arm, especially around promotional efforts, but that there are still a couple areas of frustration. The old bugaboos of rich media... continue reading »