Executives from Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation, the owner of the Fox network, are teeming into New York City today to brainstorm on how to better address the internet, according to Brand Republic. Murdoch's media outlets have been slower than their...
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Audio content e-commerce firm Audible announced very rosy financial figures for the past quarter, showing a 78 percent increase in revenues and announcing several ambitious new efforts. Audible will open a U.K. division in 2005's second quarter. It will also...
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A Florida court ruled that a woman broke the law by installing spyware on her soon-to-be ex-husband's computer, according to CNET. Using electronic communications intercept laws, the judges held that any chats recorded by the woman would not be admissible...
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Email list suppression firm UnsubCentral announced it now can scrub email lists of those domains the Federal Communications Commission rendered forbidden last week. The FCC deemed the list mobile domains, meaning that people cannot send commercial email to them unless...
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NetImperative reports that the U.K.'s internet use is enormously skewed to its capital city London. Studying just where ads are appearing when they pop up on British screens, NetImperative found that second and third place cities Manchester and Birmingham took...
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The web may soon face the same political advertising spending limitations placed upon other media in the 2002 McCain-Feingold reforms. Many pundits at first thought the internet to be a major beneficiary of 2004 election year spending due to the...
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After reducing losses but failing to post a profit in 2004, SmartBargains announced it will cancel its proposed initial public offering. Just a few weeks ago the firm bumped its CEO up into the board and replaced him with board...
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ReveNews points to a new form of search engine marketing fraud, where competitors temporarily turn their own campaigns off and then flood certain keywords with thousands of searches. The many impressions without clicks causes Google to decide that the competitor...
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Hoping to head off business search competitor Quigo at the vertical market pass, Google made a fanfare about its new agreement to have vertical trade publication network VNU use its AdWords system. Google's director of B-to-B said that the search...
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After insisting that Internet Explorer was inseparable from Microsoft Windows during antitrust hearings, Microsoft reversed itself, saying that it would indeed release a separate version of IE in order to deal with ongoing security concerns and, quite possibly, a rejuvenated...
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Eziba's botched attempt to get into the paper catalog channel, diversifying from its e-commerce roots, bankrupted the firm, according to DM News. After separating out the likely buyers and unlikely buyers, Eziba mistakenly sent its catalogs to those least likely...
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WPP said it was carving out its own search engine marketing unit, to be called mSearch. Providing consulting, paid placement buying and managing and search engine optimization, the new group will inherent existing WPP clients IBM, Ford, Sony and Nextel,...
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