SearchEngineWatch points to indigenous accounts in India as indicating Google is following up with its stated aim of staffing up in India. A Northern India newspaper reports that Google is seeking to fill 100 initial positions for a new Bangalore...
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Academics report that one of the seven biggest mathematical puzzles may have been solved, providing a pattern to the seemingly random placement of prime numbers, which might throw a wrench into the mechanisms most websites provide for security. The good...
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The Times reports e-commerce firms are again branching out into related - and sometimes unrelated - product categories to take advantage of existing customers. The period of consolidation appears to be mostly over, as companies play a free association game...
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AdAge found an internet media company it likes: a firm aiming to bring home shopping channel-type content to the web. Woot, the website equivalent of a daily infomercial, is reported to have more than 25,000 daily visitors looking to see...
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The Financial Times' online division will use targeting firm Revenue Science to divvy up its ad inventory into behavioral segments. The well-respected British financial daily will group its readers into eight categories: business education, institutional investors, IT, luxury and consumer,...
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The client conflicts created in the planned Digitas and Modem Media merger are now coming to a head as the companies are just a quarter away from closing the deal. Digitas said some clients will likely change agencies, according to...
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Research firm Retail Forward indicated retail sales will likely continue August's lackluster results, with its forward-looking spending index declining a few points to 101 from the early summer's 105. Online sales growth has been slowing significantly more than bricks and...
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Poindexter Systems, a 33-person ad serving and behavioral targeting firm, announced it raised $8 million in venture funding to help support its stated aim to compete with huge firms like AtlasDMT and DoubleClick. Those companies offer a much wider range...
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Vonage announced it will put more than half of its $50 million annual marketing kitty into online advertising. The average proportion among all brands remains closer to three percent. Vonage already spends a great deal online, as its internet telephony...
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AdRelevance reports that Levi Strauss came out on top for consumer goods online advertising in the third week of August, with about 77 million impressions, followed by Goodyear with 60 million and Nestle with 33 million. The Levis figure would...
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Aegis, the huge media group that includes Carat, consolidated its online holding under one division, called Isobar, and made the hardly believable prediction that at least half of all media will be digital by 2007. If "digital" is defined as...
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PaidContent reports that Netflix and Tivo - two companies that many early adopters in consumer media love - will start to work together to deliver rented movies via online connections to Tivo digital video recorders (DVRs). The two firms, both...
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The Direct Marketing Association, having conducted 30 investigations into companies using shady practices, cited two non-member firms to regulatory authorities. Of the 30 cases, five involved online marketing. Remove.org - a company that purported to remove people from email lists...
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