Hitwise launched a search term suggestion product, providing lists of related search terms and, most interestingly, their proven performance rates in various markets. Hitwise compiles the performance data from the 25 million browsers tracked through its system....
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Web credit card processor Authorize.net - a key component of many e-commerce sites - has been under sustained and increasing denial-of-service attack for the past few days by hackers attempting to extort a payment in return for stopping the attack....
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It's hard to believe, but grocery delivery service Peapod just turned 15 years old. The online grocery retailer started off with a terrible, proprietary online emulation system and took a long while to adapt to the internet. It almost didn't...
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Commerce One, one of the most promising e-commerce firms of the 1990s announced in an SEC filing that it will likely face liquidation. A move from business-to-business marketplace management to web services failed to revive the ailing company's fortunes. It...
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Purchased four years ago, eBay intended to fold its Half.com unit into its main auction site, but those plans were scuppered when sellers complained about the changing fee structures and interface elements. (Half.com sellers don't get charged unless an item...
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MapQuest chose TBWA's Chiat Day for its branding efforts off unknown scope. The AOL-owned mapping site hasn't advertised in the past. Company representatives said that Chiat Day's work with Apple made it think the agency could also help MapQuest move...
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Canadian e-commerce grew by 25 percent in 2003 over 2002, according to Statistics Canada. The nine-month-old figures (perhaps it's hand tabulated up there) contradict other Canadian studies showing slow growth or even the occasional decline in Canadian interest in buying...
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Revolution Magazine published a review of all the various circumstantial evidence suggesting that Google might be putting together a browser to rival that of Microsoft. Top among the tidbits is the registration of the Gbrowser.com domain name and, the hiring...
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At a MediaPost conference, senior agency executives discussed the advent of internet-like targeting technologies in traditional media. Bringing addressability to television has been exciting some, but the media buyers noted that an open question remains: who's going to buy the...
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The BBC is using the U.S. presidential election as an opportunity to increase its news readership, taking the opportunity to promote its site via online advertising. The Agency Republic-created campaign targets, not surprisingly, news readers, finding them in wide range...
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The Digital Future Project published a study showing that online usage among web users finally grew to more than the amount of time they watch television. Where two years ago the Project found Television viewed about 2.5 hours more than...
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