Email services company Quris hired Sally Hammond as vice president of Marketing and Sales. She previously worked for Gartner Group, Kodak/RSI and Dalahaye Medialink Worldwide. Quris focuses on the Fortune 1,000 market....
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A Peppercoin and Ipsos-Reid study showed that about one in six people surveyed said they had used credit cards or other non-cash means to buy something for less than $5 - the threshold of a "micropayment." Almost as many -...
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Fathom Online started a Keyword Price Index, a measurement of click prices on search engines in a series of eight industry market baskets of search phrases. September showed, as expected, a wide diversity of click prices depending on the category....
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Online dating companies had it too good. After experiencing many years of rapid growth, many new players are flooding the market - some with massive resources and huge established audiences from other niches. This has led to cutbacks at the...
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Jupiter predicts that all the new and interesting local advertising opportunities popping up online will be largely used by national advertisers, as it will take at least three to five years for regional firms to get comfortable with the new...
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The Massachusetts spam case against DC Enterprises - one of the many cases billed as a "first" Can-Spam Act case - settled for the relatively small sum of $25,000. The Floridian-owned company had been accused of sending out mortgage spam....
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China's ongoing battle to control its citizens' internet usage is again slowing down its version of the web. It employs massive filtering servers to try to prevent citizens from seeing certain types of content, particularly stories and commentary focused on...
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Weather.com, one of the largest online media properties, increased the downloads of its adware weather checking application by about seven times over the course of the last few months. It also appointed senior managers to groom that side of the...
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Almost all online retailers expect more sales this holiday season relative to last year's. A full 98 percent reported they expect sales gains, according to a Shop.org/BizRate.com study. For their part, a third of consumers said they planned to spend...
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PaidContent comments on reports that Microsoft plans to blow half its research and development budget over the next few years on gaining entry into the media business - a sum totaling as much as $20 billion. Specifically, it hopes to...
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