Half of the 10 countries followed each month by Nielsen Online saw their active Internet home user populations drop in September compared to August. The U.S. lost the most users, while Switzerland lost the largest percentage of its users.

The dust from Google Chrome’s arrival has long since settled, so it’s time to refocus for a bit on the two current big boys in the browser wars: Microsoft’s Internet Explorer and Mozilla’s Firefox.

A team of seven researchers at the University of California, Berkeley and UC, San Diego got into the Storm botnet to get a closer look at how much money spammers might be making.

According to comScore, e-commerce sales have been sliding down a steep hill this year. While growth is still happening, figures are declining closer and closer to no growth at all.

Shopper marketing ad agency Mars Advertising has promoted Kristine Zeitler to vice president of shopper marketing.

New name reflects the company’s leading position within the affiliate marketing industry

We wanted to reach out to you directly regarding Google’s decision, announced earlier today, to terminate the advertising services agreement that the companies announced in June.

In hopes of promoting a new product, Bango, a mobile Web technology firm, reported that half of the 20 most visited Web sites according to Nielsen Online did not translate well on mobile phones.

Limbo, a mobile social network, partnered with GfK Technology, a market research company, to release their Mobile Advertising Report for the third quarter of 2008 on Monday.

According to recent surveys released by Unity Marketing and Ipsos Mendelsohn, affluent households are spending less of their money on luxuries and are choosing instead to focus on improving their homes.