Wired carries an extensive interview with ZabaSearch CEO Robert Zakari and chairman Nicholas Matzorkis about one of the most comprehensive personal-data search engines available. Launched in February, the site has emerged during a period of heightened sensitivity about privacy and...
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Teens who have cell phones are much more likely than the rest of their peers to use the internet daily, listen to the radio, and read newspapers and magazines, MediaWeek reports, pointing to a study by WPP Group's MindShare Online...
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To promote the June 1 release of "Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants," a film about close friendships among teenage girls, Warner Bros. has launched two viral websites and has plans for extensive online media buys across sites such as MSN,...
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Fastclick, issuing its first earnings report since its IPO, boasted record revenue of $19.6 million for the first quarter of 2005, an increase of 80 percent from $10.9 million for the first quarter of 2004. But profits for the same...
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Findwhat.com said its chief financial officer will resign, it will replace its current auditor, and it has removed some distribution partners, "thereby negatively affecting the company's short-term financial performance," MarketWatch reported. During the first quarter, revenue rose 136% to...
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A slate of trade groups is lobbying the Federal Communications Commission to make a rule that would pre-empt states' authority to regulate interstate telephone marketing. The move, designed to save the vestiges of the telemarketing industry left over from the...
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Yahoo is developing a search engine for finding music info and downloads on the web, and plans to introduce it within two months, CNET reports. The news comes as Yahoo announced the official launch of its video search engine this...
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Google's new Google Web Accelerator can't dodge the pro forma privacy concerns raised with anything new that the search giant does. PaidContent points to raised eyebrows (other examples here and here). [More...]...
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Lightningcast has launched a mobile video advertising solution that the company says enables mobile providers to insert ads into both real-time broadcast content and on-demand clips, iMedia report. It says the solution is platform and device agnostic, but some advanced...
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Consumers give high marks to search engines according to an annual Harris Interactive poll of U.S. adults who were asked which industries do a good or bad job of serving consumers, eMarketer reports. The highest scores were for supermarkets, though,...
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Reuters reports that cell phone penetration in Western Europe will hit 100 percent by 2007, according to management consultancy Analysys Research. Active mobile penetration, which excludes phones that have not been used for about three months, is expected to grow...
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