ClickZ's Pam Parker reports that while lots of people are talking about the growth of Hispanic media, both online and offline, very few companies are doing anything about it on the internet. While Hispanics account for one in seven Americans,...
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The Washington Post is acquiring Slate, the perennially unprofitable online magazine started by Microsoft. Newsweek, another Post property, already works closely with Microsoft's MSN division. PaidContent reports....
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MediaPost reports that agency folk are fretting that Nielsen's deals with DVR companies, securing its measurement monopoly further into the future, will hurt the long-term competitiveness of the media metrics business. Worse, Nielsen's parent, VNU appears to be stalking the...
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Diebold knowingly tried to misuse the DMCA act to intimidate students and advocacy groups, a judge ruled, making Diebold pay for the defendants' legal costs. Swarthmore students a year ago published online leaked Diebold documents that appeared to show the...
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DVD rental firm Netflix and digital video recorder firm Tivo confirmed the rumors and announced a partnership that would deliver video on demand to homes with Tivo boxes. Netflix will tackle the licensing arrangements with movie studios, and Tivo will...
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Microsoft put together a group of bloggers and search experts to act as a sort of focus group for its ongoing search development efforts. The group, to travel to Redmond for a two-day "Search Champs" event has all the appearances...
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Search Engine market growth predictions remain all over the map, with Jupiter's curmudgeonly Nate Elliott holding the bottom line at 34 percent and financial analysts proving more optimistic, pegging growth at almost twice that. In general, people working in the...
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An email marketing firm and a web metrics company have combined their offerings to engineer a product that will send targeted emails to web site visitors based on their online behavior. Responsys and Coremetrics, which don't appear to have named...
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Real Estate ad revenues look to be shifting from print to online, although the process has only just started. One of the key drivers is the tendency for online ad opportunities to be priced per lead, typically a much more...
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The hugely popular Do-Not-Call Registry has proven both larger and more successful than anyone predicted. More people put themselves on the registry than voted for president last time around. The success is making people not take at face value the...
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Froogle, Google's shopping engine, launched in beta in the U.K. a few days ago. Looking at the random selection of unlikely items on its home page (who is shopping for ketchup or pepper online?), it's still a bit hard to...
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FindWhat launched its own version of a cost-per-click auction network, debuting AdRevenue Xpress. While the auction process remains much like Google's AdSense network, FindWhat lets advertisers bid on keywords and categories, rather than contextual placements. The program is now available...
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