Following the announcement that Google is finally opening up Gmail to the public, if in a limited fashion, Yahoo announced it will quadruple its storage capacity to match that of the Gmail service, according to NetImperative. Yahoo already multiplied its...
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Online retail spending rose 28 percent for the week ending February 27, according to an Internet Retailer report on comScore figures. In a week that showed only about 9 percent growth in all commerce, online figures rose from 2004's $1.22...
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AdAge reports that Motorola is throwing its online account into review. The account, which is said to involve about $100 million in media billings across all media, has been run by incumbent Ogilvy & Mather. Motorola's Benjamin Hill, senior director...
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AOL Latin America, the down-on-its-luck ISP servicing Brazil, Mexico and Argentina announced that it has given up attempting to secure additional financing that would let it live past the third quarter because "any efforts to obtain financing would be futile...
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A Wells Fargo executive pointed out to Internet Retailer that, while much news is made about online security breaches of private data, the greatest threat to people's personal information remains good old real-world security. Restaurants, stores, and in one shiningly...
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The AP reports that newspaper firms Gannet, Knight Ridder and Tribune will together buy a three quarter interest in internet news aggregation company Topix.net. Topix.net already has 1.4 million users after launching just about a year ago, about a quarter...
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Internet ad spending grew tremendously in the U.K. last year, almost as much as the U.K.'s Advertising Association predicted, according to BrandRepublic. Growing 44.5 percent over 2003 billings, adspend for British online properties reached 597 million quid, approaching the point...
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ClickZ's Rob McGann found a connection between the commercial efforts of some "anti-spyware" software makers and the high rate of cookie deletion that some are finding. A recent Jupiter Research survey indicated that as many as 40 percent of people...
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The steady decline in newspaper readership over most of the 20th century has always been tempered by the fact that newspapers have been the most efficient mechanism for local businesses to advertise. Newspapers' enormous share of nationwide ad spending -...
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Factor TG announced it is starting work on a large ad clutter project, according to Adrants. The firm is attempting to parse out the factors behind which sites are able to provide the most effectiveness for ads. It is looking...
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AdWeek reports a group of sites including AOL, MSN, Yahoo, Terra Networks and Univision, plan to bow a trade campaign to media buyers in the second half of the year. They chose three Chicago-based Publicis Groupe shops to handle creative...
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