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  • Mountain View Accepts Google’s Free Wi-Fi Internet Proposal

    The Mountain View City Council on Tuesday night gave Google the green light to begin building a wireless network in their city, in which the search giant is based. The City Council unanimously ratified a five-year property lease required for the construction…

  • Lew Ranieri has joined ROOT Markets

    Lew Ranieri has joined ROOT Markets, the first financial exchange for consumer leads. As you might know, in the 1980s, as Salomon Brothers’ head of mortgage trading, Ranieri created the trillion dollar mortgage-backed securities market…

  • Friendster Seeking New Friends, With Little Success

    In the midst of its decline, online social network Friendster has made attempts to increase its waning popularity through methods that have not been received well by some. Friendster said that the company recently kicked off a “reminder” promotion…

  • Google Unveils Free Analytics Service

    On Monday, November 14, Google announced that it would make its Web analytics service available to Google account holders for free. Google acquired the San Diego based Urchin Web Analytics in March and has up until recently continued to use the Urchin…

  • Shanghai Surprise

    The last time I was here was about 15 years ago. I vividly recall opening the curtains in my hotel room and seeing a sea of people dressed in black on bicycles with the occasional Mercedes Benz rolling by.

  • S. Korea Steps Up Spam Enforcement:

    S. Korea is an economic and technological leader, which makes it an important example for the rest of the world. One distinct area of leadership is S. Korea’s success in dealing with Spam where recent policy changes seem to be effective. The new…

  • The $100 Drink of Water

    The Gold Rush is on in China. Companies are running to China faster than gold miners headed out to California back in the 1800’s. In late 1849, the California Gold Rush was in full swing. Because of poor planning, many western-bound 49ers were…

  • Firefox Gets Good News and Google’s Help

    Despite three months of sluggish growth, Firefox is back on its merry way to closing in on the Goliath that is Microsoft’s Internet Explorer.

  • DM University: Arbitrage

    If you’ve ever taken an economics class, in all likelihood you’ve come across the term, arbitrage. If you paid attention at all, you’d have learned that arbitrage is the practice of taking advantage of the state of imbalance between two or more market prices for a given product (e.g. currency, apples, leads/RFPs).

  • Lost in Translation

    An extremely useful and exciting aspect of the affiliate marketing on the internet is the ability to reach diverse customers through media that is extremely relevant and localized to their interests.