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  • 56% of Americans Accessed Internet Wirelessly

    A survey conducted by the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project in April found that 56 percent of Americans said they had accessed the Internet with laptops, cell phones, game consoles and other wireless devices.

  • Mobile Technologies Mostly Improve Productivity

    Do the Internet and mobile technologies enhance or hinder work productivity?

  • Nearly Half of Large US Companies Analyze Outbound E-Mail

    According to a recent study conducted by Proofpoint, 48 percent of large U.S. companies employ staff to read or analyze outbound e-mail, 38 percent overall, and nearly a third of companies have fired an employee for violating e-mail policies in the past year.

  • One-Fifth of E-Mails Don’t Reach Inboxes

    According to a recent report released by Return Path, titled “Return Path Deliverability Benchmark Report”, more than 20 percent of commercial, permissioned e-mails do not reach the inboxes of their intended recipients in North America.

  • Yahoo Flogger Slap

    Walking around Affiliate Summit East last week, we still couldn’t shake the two world’s colliding feel we get every time we attend the show. In one corner sits the real affiliate world, the ecosystem supporting small to medium retailers…

  • Market ahead of the pack

    Finding new marketing strategies, ideas and offers will allow you stay ahead of the competition, grab your consumers attention, and in the end, give you a much bigger ROI.

  • MediaTrust Ranks No. 9 on the 2009 Inc. 500 with Three-Year Sales Growth of 9,481.1%

    Inc. Magazine Unveils 28th Annual List of America’s Fastest–Growing Private Companies–the Inc. 500

  • The Friend Test

    In some ways we lament the recent decision by Yahoo to ban all ads that either directly or indirectly point to non-branded diet and teeth continuity programs, which means this could be the beginning of the end for the various Rachel Ray’s diet blogs and Mom’s Teeth Journal.

  • Puppy Arbitrage

    If we step back and take a longer-term view of the world, the business landscape is dotted with companies and services that did well for a while but ultimately ceased without evolving.

  • FTC Seeks Public Comment on Proposed Rules to Protect Consumers of Debt Relief Services

    In an ongoing effort to better protect financially distressed consumers, the Federal Trade Commission is seeking public comment on proposed rules to combat deceptive and abusive telemarketing of debt relief services – services that purportedly can reduce consumers’ credit card and other unsecured debt.