eMarketer reports that the population of personal computers will soon exceed 1 billion, as found in a new report from Computer Industry Almanac. While the U.S. holds less than five percent of the world's population, it is the home of...
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Recent data leaking flubs by major personal information holders ChoicePoint, Bank of America and others inspired some in Congress to design laws to limit what companies can do with personal information. Some deal with the sort of leads that happened...
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CNET adds yet another report to the pile indicating a Yahoo competitor to Google's Adsense contextual ad network is imminent. CNET, cited an unnamed source, said the program would be geared around small publishers, assessing their sites' content to determine...
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Intel chose McCann to run its $300 million largely traditional media account, with IPG shops MRM Partners, R/GA and Universal McCann Interactive to take on interactive media responsibilities, according to ClickZ. Intel's new head of sales and marketing commented that...
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The hostile takeover bid for Digital Impact got a little more hostile, with the online direct marketing firm suing its spurned suitor, infoUSA, for alleged patent infringement, according to DM News. A Digital Impact executive said that the firm first...
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Two of the blog advertising industry's three major godfather figures, Jason Calacanis and Nick Denton, are publicly arguing about ethical standards for blog journalism. Calacanis's tech blog turned down a junket offer from Siemens, while Denton's Gizmodo accepted the offer,...
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The Online Publishers Association told E-commerce Times that consumers spent 14 percent more on paid web content in 2004 relative to the previous year. Of that $1.8 billion spent, online dating maintained its number one position, taking up $469.5 million,...
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Forbes.com put together a bestiary of the top nine corporate hate sites - those pages typically put up by former customers after what they perceive to be an egregious service problem. Sites were judged based on variables like anger (anger's...
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Media Planning Group, the large Havas-owned media shop based in New York, told AdWeek it is laying off 60 employees out of its pre-cut staff of 409. None of the 14 U.S. and Canada offices will be closed. The company...
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PaidContent points to a Kuro5hin analysis of what most consumers are willing to spend for episodes of video content. The crux of it: no matter how much you spend putting together the content, publishers can expect the sweet spot to...
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