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Desktop Search to Come to Mac, MaybeReuters reports that Google CEO Eric Schmidt told a UCLA conference on the 35th anniversary of the Internet...Spyware Dominates Number One Computer Maker's Service CallsNumber one computer maker Dell is now bundling anti-spyware software on all its new units. It is also...Hitwise Grows Demographics PanelHitwise, a website traffic metrics and demographics firm, said that its U.K. web panel size exploded to two...DoubleClick: Ad Serving Prices May Stop Dropping in 2005DoubleClick CEO Kevin Ryan told analysts last week that he thought the dropping ad serving prices would stabilize...Anti-Spyware Software Morfs into Adware via WhenUWhenU's aggressive effort to distinguish itself from spyware purveyors puts it in cahoots with unlikely partner Aluria, the...Fastclick Wins $75 MM VC RoundFastclick.com announced a $75 million private equity round, lead by VC firm Highland Capital Partners and Oak Investment...Suits Target Spim along with SpamFinally employing the same legal strategy it used with some success against spam, AOL filed a lawsuit last...PayPal Apology Not Good Enough for ManyPayPal's PR efforts to assuage angry business users who found their accounts at least partially frozen last week...eBay Often Unwitting Party to Fencing, FraudThe IHT asks uncomfortable question about eBay's popularity among criminals for unloading stolen goods. Some have been caught...Fake Mazda Blog Site PulledA Mazda-touting blog was pulled offline after accusations that it was a shill site for the auto manufacturer....DoubleClick Seeks Shake-UpDoubleClick announced late tonight that it hired Lazard Freres & Co. to explore how to shake up its...RDW Buys iFactory AgencySmall Providence ad shop RDW Group bought 30-person-strong interactive shop iFactory, giving it a much larger footprint in...E-Payments Still Rare, Slated to GrowOnline payments aren't taking the world by storm, as once predicted during the first internet boom. Just under...VC Funds - The Milk of Froth - Poured into MarketIn a sign that the ingredients for another overly frothy market are perhaps combining, venture capital firms are...PaidContent Hires New Executive EditorIndependent web content industry blog PaidContent hired Staci Kramer as executive editor. Kramer is a well-known commentator on...Mercury Video Campaign Proves Stark Break from PastAutomaker Mercury is trying to shed its old image of producing merely adequate cars for aging rustbelt pensioners,...FindWhat Up on Mystery Espotting RevenuesPay per click search firm FindWhat reported income of almost $5 million, about double last year's figure for...Kanoodle Seeing Rapid Growth in PPC BizA local paper reviews the progress of cost per click search network Kanoodle. Founder and CEO Kent Keating...AOL May Cut 700 JobsAnonymous sources say AOL will cut about 700 jobs just in time for Christmas (and bonus season), trying...Survey: Media Buyers Dislike Partisan MediaA MediaPost survey shows that media buyers show a surprising degree of political activity in their media choices....In Net Change, Content More Popular than CommunicatingFor the first time, people spent more time this year looking at stuff online than they did communicating...E-Commerce Up 19 PercentOnline retail sales grew 19 percent in the week ending October 17, according to comScore. E-commerce hit $1.3...Google-BellSouth Deal Focuses on Small Biz Hand HoldingAdAge reports on the making of the Google-BellSouth deal that has armies of the telephone company's salespeople pounding...Yahoo Installs TV Exec as Head of MediaYahoo installed an entertainment executive as head of its media group. Former chairman of ABC Entertainment Television Lloyd...Brits Prefer Net Search to PhonebooksThree quarters of British people surveyed said they'd rather search via an online search engine than use a...Nike Shoxploitation Site Promotes Unreleased ShoePaying homage to blaxploitation culture, Nike launched a Shoxploitation website to promote its new Shox Neo sneakers. The...AOL: No Plans for Search Engine, Plenty for PersonalizationAOL again confirmed it lacks plans for its own search engine, relying instead on Google's, but it did...AOL Firing Rumors Persist, Q3 Numbers to ComeCNET went and found its own anonymous source to confirm to it that AOL plans on firing 700...Yahoo CEO on Desktop Search: We're a Comin'All the rage, the desktop search category got another plug, with Yahoo CEO Terry Semel saying that the...E-Commerce Conversion Rates IncreaseDoubleClick reports in a tracking study that conversion rates for e-commerce firms are improving steadily, even as shopping...CMR Figures May Severely Undercount NetA TNS Media Intelligence/CMR study showed that about $1.4 billion was spent on political ads in 2004, leading...News Sites Buying Traffic on Search EnginesOnline news sites, long in a battle for marketshare, are turning to search advertising to up their online...AdAge to Produce Non-Web Digital EditionAdAge is launching a new digital edition through Zinio, a company that takes print publications and produces identical-looking...TW Profits Lower, AOL Accounting Still at IssueTime Warner revealed a poor third quarter, citing both an eight percent profit drop and the need to...European Corporate Websites Improving DisclosuresAfter European corporate financial scandals, E.U. firms are improving their websites and the disclosures they provide on them,...Jupiter Finds Blogs a Sales WinnerJupiter Research reportedly is using analyst blogs as a highly successful driver of business. Its analysts gin up...Pay-per-Call Evaluated as Next Big ThingNetimperative got ranging comments when it asked experts about whether or not pay-per-call advertising might be the next...Study: B-to-B Searchers Quite Different than RestA Marketing study shows that business-to-business searchers act quite different from consumers. While Google enjoys the largest marketshare...Overture Looking at Flat Rate PricingOverture is contemplating rolling out a different pricing model that would solve some of advertisers' biggest complaints; particularly...MarketWatch Ridicules BlogsMarketWatch's Frank Barnako baits bloggers - a fine pastime for those seeking instant traffic spikes - by pointing...Holiday Net Sales to Be BigeMarketer reports that holiday shoppers will spend almost $17 billion this year, up almost a third from last...Yellow Pages Giant CreatedConsolidation struck the online yellow pages business hard and suddenly this morning. SBC and BellSouth created a joint...Spammer Gets 9-Year Jail SentenceJeremy Jaynes was sentenced to nine years in jail by a Virginia court for sending out too many...Kelsey Small Biz Study Further ExplainedExpanding on a study reported last week, the Kelsey Group said that while almost two thirds of small...Online Drives Newspapers into Leisure NicheThe most loyal newspaper readers still find the web to be a better source of breaking news. They...Mailblocks Mail Challenged, Responses LostMailblocks is lucky the company that bought it turned out to be AOL, the largest - and sometimes...Ask Jeeves Adds Local FunctionsAsk Jeeves developed a new local search interface, putting several localized searching services in one place. Included in...CSO, SMO Named at CXO, Publisher of CIO, CSO & CMOFormer Georgia-Pacific CSO Bob Hayes was named as CXO's new CSO, along with long-time CXO manager Cathy O'Leary's...Amazon Sued (Again) for Targeting Patent IssueDirect marketing firm Cendant is suing Amazon.com for allegedly violating a patent related to product recommendations generated from... |