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  • Is being a CEO always this hard?

    When most companies hire a COO, it doesn’t make the front section of the Wall Street Journal, but then again, Facebook doesn’t exactly qualify as “most companies.” Not with its $15 billion valuation and growing bevy…

  • RFID Ramp-Up

    What’s the purpose of a shopper marketing promotion if the merchandise is sitting in the store’s back room rather than out on display where it belongs?

  • Want A Rebate? Stay Focused

    last september, my son’s optometrist informed me that I was eligible for a $30 rebate because I had purchased a six-month supply of contact lenses from

  • Stuff We Can’t Do Here Yet

    You can watch David Beckham score goals in Los Angeles, but if you want him on your mobile phone reminding you to say goodbye, you’ll have to go to Hong

  • More People File Taxes Online, But Hurdles Remain

    The Consumer Internet Barometer, produced by The Conference Board, recently surveyed 10,000 households (with about 70% responding) and found that 40% of respondents plan to file their taxes online this year, compared to 34% three years ago.

  • The Mystery of Display

    Last week, almost two weeks after word spread that Microsoft had an interest in Yahoo, MarketWatch.com published an article titled, “Microsoft’s play for display,” with the subtitle, “Buying Yahoo a major bet…

  • Affiliate Summit West 2008

    We love Affiliate Summit. And, if this were the movie “Summer School” we’d simply fill the rest of this page with a bunch of “very, very, very,…much” to reach our normal word limit. Intrepid readers shouldn’t let…

  • iLegal – Affiliate Summit – A Focus on Relationships

    I just got back from Affiliate Summit in Las Vegas, and as always, it was a phenomenal event. It was the biggest ever (by some reports over 3,000 attendees), and we had the chance to visit with a lot of old friends.

  • Adknowledge – Social Advertising Channel Doubles in January

    Adknowledge announced today that advertising inventory in its social advertising channel, Cubics.com, has doubled within the last month.

  • Swap Team: Oridian To Power Hitflip UK Ad Traffic

    Online ad network Oridian will sell traffic for top swap site Hitflip.co.uk