ClickZ reports AOL's users are seeing a remarkable 75 percent decline in reported spam relative to last year. This, coupled with a 60 percent reduction in the amount of mail routed to the "junk" folders is much greater than the...
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Amazon.com reported its record sales day, according to Internet Retailer, tallying 2.8 million items sold. The e-commerce giant declined to say which day that was in this holiday season, or how much revenue that entailed, or even which categories of...
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In an increasingly competitive e-commerce environment, some e-tailers have been responding to delivery date pressures by making promises of by-Christmas deliveries, even when they're not entirely sure about their inventory levels or the capabilities of their over-worked delivery companies. Online...
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The cops and robbers are just about keeping up with one another as e-commerce grows by leaps and bounds. While online retail sales grew by about two fifths in 2004, so did online fraud, staying at about 1.8 percent of...
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An analysis by ClickZ speculates that the recent acquisition of iProspect by Aegis may portend a trend of ad agencies snapping up search marketing firms to purchase expertise they have been unable or unwilling to create in-house. Also named as...
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The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) told wireless marketing carriers that they must submit a list of domain names from which their marketing messages will originate by January 21, according to DM News. The move comes in response to last summer's...
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The U.S. again is the homeland of spam, according to a Sophos study reported by ZDNet. 42 percent of all spam collected in Sophos's network of "honeypots" originated in the U.S. South Korea and China came in a distant second...
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