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  • Google Gains, Bing-Powered Search Loses in September

    According to the latest numbers from Experian Hitwise, Google gained market share at the expense of the other major search engines in September.

  • The Week in Review

    Headlines from the industry. To receive daily updates please visit the Digital Moses fan page

  • The Cult of MLM

    Sometime in 2002 we took a meeting with a former co-worker to discuss the online space. Instead of discussing the online space, though, it became a pitch to join them in their multi-level marketing business. In MLM parlance, it meant becoming part of…

  • Cliff Notes – the World according to Thomas Friedman

    As one who write multiple articles per week and has done so pretty much fifty weeks per year for the past six years, it is hard not to admire professional writers like Malcolm Gladwell, Seth Godin, and Guy Kawaski who have not only a seemingly…

  • Two-Thirds of Consumers Think Location-Based Coupons on Mobile Devices Are Convenient and Useful

    Recent survey data from Prosper Mobile Insights reveal how consumers see location-based coupons, security issues with locations being tracked, and where smartphones and tablets are used, among other things.

  • Online Shopping Will Be More Important to Consumers This Holiday Season

    According to a survey from The NPD Group, consumers will look more to online shopping this holiday season, as overall spending looks to be about the same as it was last year.

  • Shorter Facebook Posts Get Higher Engagement Rates

    A report from Buddy Media Platform titled “Strategies for Effective Facebook Wall Posts: A Statistical Review” highlights some findings about what works well for Facebook posts. Among the findings are that shorter posts get higher engagement rates, full-length URLs work better than shortened URLs and…

  • Mobile Phones and Tablets Drive 6.8% of U.S. Digital Traffic in August

    According to a wealth of new data from comScore, non-computer traffic for the U.S. was nearly 7 percent in August, with the majority coming from mobile phones. The report also found that nearly half of tablet owners made or completed a purchase on their tablets.

  • F’in Fraud

    For all the crap that we occasionally dish on the CPA network space, one thing we hopefully have never intimated is that running a network is easy. While we have no shortage of people who enter the space with no experience only to find ways to make impressive money, once they make the plunge to running a…

  • The Visionary Dilemma

    At some point in the future, October 5th will be called Steve Jobs day, and millions around the world will go to work in jeans and a black turtleneck in memory of a man that less than .0000001% of the population has ever met but seemingly 99% of the population has an immense feeling of adoration. His…