The foundation behind the Firefox browser expects to gain about 10 percent browser marketshare by the end of next year, provided their current strong momentum continues. Microsoft's browser monopoly is unlikely to throw too many impediments in the open source...
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AOL is pushing online advertising in Europe, using an ad campaign with an "exploding banner." The creative involves a standard banner that states "I bet you think I'm useless," which shakes and "explodes" when a viewer's mouse rolls over it....
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Adobe and Yahoo agreed to distribute some of their software together, bundling Yahoo's search toolbar - an add-on to browsers - with Adobe's ubiquitous PDF document reader software. The deal could vastly increase Yahoo's number two search engine traffic, gaining...
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A New Hampshire federal district court judge issues a retraining order against "spam king" Sanford Wallace and two companies he owns, preventing them from engaging in the spread of spyware. Specifically, the judge said they must not exploit particular security...
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After a couple weeks of unusually high growth, online retail sales for the week ending October 10 showed a 37 percent hike to $1.4 billion. Travel sales grew 46 percent, according to comScore, hitting $1.23 billion. comScore had reported retail...
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Rich media vendor Eyeblaster released a new version of its Flash technology that can remember user states, allowing for more interactive creative, behavior-based targeting and allowing people to save their place on web games. The company also released a "push...
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Low-cost dial-up internet service provider United Online announced it will buy Classmates.com for $100 million. Classmates has 1.4 million paid subscribers and a revenue run rate of about $72 million and earnings approaching $5 million. Classmates.com became a major internet...
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Disney will resurrect Starwave, one of the several online brands it killed with its Midas touch years ago, remaking the network into a wireless publisher, pushing licensed non-Disney content. Disney Mobile will continue its marketing of kids-oriented games and other...
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Online business contextual ad network Quigo picked up some major publishers to add to its growing b-to-b network, signing USAToday, NYPost.com, iExplore.com and World Publications. Quigo offers an online auction-style bidding out of its business inventory of text placements. Reuters...
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UKWizz claims to be a non-meta search engine created out of whole cloth, focused solely on British content. Launched in July, it has no ads or sponsored links. A quick test drive showed it to be fast and show results...
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Arnold One will handle Vonage creative duties, winning the account after a hard-fought review. Fellow Havas-owned shop MPG will handle media. The account, reported to be spending more than $50 million this coming year, has been a heavy online advertiser....
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