PaidContent reports that AOL will launch its new redesign next week. That comes just as both Yahoo and CNET launch their own prettifications. The beta for the AOL page can be seen here....
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San Francisco has finally recovered enough to again support a local interactive marketing trade group. The Bay Area Interactive Group (BIG) plans to kick off October 7 with a meeting among its 40 corporate members. AKQA executive Molly Parsley said...
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Continuing the ongoing trend in lackluster e-commerce growth, comScore reports that the week ending September 12 actually showed a five percent decline in online retail sales versus the year before, falling to $993 million. In the real world, retail sales...
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Many email users are now finding that their internet service providers are screening out emails that contain blacklisted web addresses. The filtering comes as an effort to fight spam. But unlike IP number blacklists that block certain sending computers, these...
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A federal appeals court confirmed that websites need not provide ways for the blind to access information, as some handicapped advocates have maintained. The ruling took Southwest Airlines off the hook, as the plaintiffs were suing to force the carrier...
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British mapping firm Multimap.com is providing localized inventory for Google ads, targeting visitors to major U.K. cities. An executive said that if the experiment goes well, it will try to further drill down into smaller areas and even try to...
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Clicklab, a firm that tries to divine whether or not a client's incoming clicks from ad campaigns are real prospects or fake clicks from fraudsters, reports that it finds up to half of clicks may be fraudulent. Sometimes publishers set...
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Bowing to advertiser requests, Nielsen will stop hiding ratings for specific commercials, allowing media buyers to see minute-by-minute data on how many people were tuned in. Advertisers will have to do their own matching to determine whether or not their...
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Two out of five U.S. mobile users that use non-voice information applications on their phones pay for the privilege of doing so, according to a ForceNine and Wirthlin Worldwide study done by Harris Interactive. Applications included internet-like functionality, such as...
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The Associated Press reviewed the tortuous path to initial public offering WebSideStory continues to walk, now offering a smaller offering of 4.4 million shares for a price of between $8 and $9. The company, once profitable and with a large...
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