Microsoft let loose another legal barrage against spammers, according to eCommerce Times. The software giant filed seven new actions against "John Does," making its current tally 115 legal actions, with 86 of those happening in the U.S....
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Borrell Associates predicts, via ClickZ, that online radio ads will grow by about 56 percent per year for the next five years, growing from its current miniscule share of less than one half of a percent of current online advertising...
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Some competing firms are questioning a report from two weeks ago that indicated Microsoft was losing its iron grip on the browser market. OneStat had indicated its log analyses showed Microsoft Internet Explorer marketshare to have fallen below 90 percent...
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According to CNN, Google's CFO told an investor conference that something needs to be done about click fraud "really, really quickly, because I think, potentially, it threatens our business model." The report asserts that the main fraud perpetrators are competitors...
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The new chief of the Direct Marketing Association, John Greco, swept several senior management staff out and promoted a similar number of middle managers. VPs in charge of segments & affiliates, conferences and marketing & business development were moved out,...
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Internet Retailer reports comScore figures that show Black Friday sales grew 30 percent online, adding more than $90 million in sales compared to last year. The research firm said it expects November and December sales to exceed $15 billion....
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Discussion monitoring site Threadwatch points to an insiders' forum where a Google representative is calling for help among the search engine optimization vendor crowd to help the search engine prevent "Google results hijacking," a vulnerability Google has that allows cheating...
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Revolution points to a Jupiter study of European media habits that found more than a quarter of people reducing their TV watching time in favor of spending more on the internet. For 2004, 27 percent said they were switching some...
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The Guardian sums up the recent scare over a brief trojan infection that ad serving firm Falk experienced. While sites like The Register immediately made viewers aware of the potential that they had been exposed to the Microsoft Internet Explorer...
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Retail sites generally did fairly well over the Thanksgiving weekend, suffering through the buying spikes with an average of only five percent declines in response time, according to Internet Retailer's report on Gomez data. This comes just as Webmetrics told...
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CBS MarketWatch reports that more than a quarter of the fast growing online advertising business comes from technology accounts. AdZone Research reportedly found that tech firms spent $181 million in September out of a total of $696.2 spent on the...
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ZDNet UK reports that the Lycos Europe "Make Love Not Spam" distributed computing screensaver effort may have proved a victim of its own rather aggressive tactics. It seems one of the alleged spammers targeted by the denial of service application...
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