Factors other than price have a significant impact on the buying decisions of online shoppers, according to a ForeSee Results study due out today, according to MediaPost. The study looked at consumer satisfaction with sites and considered various factors: price,...
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Domain name market firm Zetetic released a study last week indicating that domain names are selling briskly and at sometimes at heady prices. A review of 8,000 transactions since 1996 showed that the average domain name returned almost four times...
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As noted last month, Scripps is expected to launch today an online video destination with content from its HGTV, Food Network, DIY, and Fine Living cable networks, with GMC as the launch sponsor and other ads expected later this week,...
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Paidcontent provides a rundown of Newsweek International's cover story on the future of TV, focusing on the coming of the digital world. Features include "The Airwaves Go Digital," about how "Europeans have a leg up on the rest of the...
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McDonald's said it has begun trying out a technology, called Ooqa-Ooqa, that works only with Internet Explorer browsers, altering it when visitors go to certain websites, AdWeek reports. Starting last week, visitors to BET.com, an affiliate of Black Entertainment Television,...
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Nielsen said yesterday that it has acquired BBC De Media en Reclame Bank, an advertising research company in the Netherlands that monitors the Dutch advertising market, including newspapers, magazines, direct mail, internet, television, radio and cinema, DM News reports. Its...
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BtoB Online reports that the Thomas Register of American Manufacturers will no longer be published - at least in print - after the 2006 edition of the industrial buyer's bible is issued. The Thomas Industrial Network announced Tuesday that it...
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As print news organizations, amid declining circulation and revenue, embrace the internet, they find themselves in a competitive landscape of customer acquisition and churn complexity that's intertwined with other news and content sites, search engines and email, according to a...
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A new service from blog search engine Blogdigger launched this week locates bloggers - and only bloggers - by geographic location in the U.S. by city or ZIP code, writes Search Engine Watch. Blogdigger queries have two parts: the search...
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The remarkable revenue growth registered by Google and Yahoo is coming at the expense of the 10 largest information companies in what is a $263 billion industry, according to a new report by research and advisory firm Outsell released Tuesday,...
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Most U.S. consumers don't realize that e-tailers and retailers may charge different prices for the same products, depending on the customer, according to a new survey to be released today by U-Penn's Annenberg Public Policy Center, reports the Associated Press....
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