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  • JetBlue Offers Refunds to Jobless Customers

    JetBlue Corp. is offering down-on-their-luck customers a helping hand: a refund on booked flights.

  • Hyundai Enhances Consumer Protection Initiative

    Hyundai Motor America is expanding the parameters of its innovative consumer protection plan with a variation on the theme that enables a 90-day payment relief benefit if a Hyundai purchaser loses a job involuntarily.

  • Kraft Singles Launches Yearlong “Smiles” Campaign

    Kraft Singles is kicking off its new, yearlong “Smiles Under a Single” campaign and is supporting the effort with free grilled cheese sandwiches.

  • The Flogging of the Flog

    While we doubt that Merriam-Webster will update their definition for “flog” to encompass the fake blogs, it turns out that the current meaning of the word applies much more appropriately than expected, and that is “to force…

  • Anatomy of a Flog

    While we’ve written no shortage of articles about flogs, one thing we haven’t done is taken a more in depth look at what makes a flog a flog. Their success has taken almost everyone by surprise, and in a what’s old…

  • SynthaSite Secures $20 Million in Series B Funding from Reinet Fund

    Reinet Invests in SynthaSite’s Vision to Bring Professional Web Site Builder to Small Businesses and Individuals Worldwide

  • Google Maps Overtakes MapQuest

    For the first time ever, Google Maps has overtaken long-time online maps leader MapQuest in January – at least, according to initial reports from comScore, as verified by Greg Sterling at Search Engine Land.

  • Spain Sees Surge in Number of Internet Users

    The latest figures released by Nielsen Online show that the number of Spain’s active Internet home users in November saw a month-to-month jump of 6.37 percent in November.

  • US Retail E-Commerce Sales Dismal in Fourth Quarter

    According to comScore’s latest retail e-commerce sales figures for the U.S., the fourth quarter of 2008 was the first time the company observed a negative year-over-year percent change.

  • ‘Lost,’ ‘SNL’ Most Popular Streamed Entertainment TV Programs

    A recent report released by the Nielsen Company shows that “Lost” on ABC.com lured the most unique viewers in December, making the show the top among all online broadcast television network entertainment programs streamed from tagged Web sites and embedded network video players.