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  • EBay Testing Contextual Ads

    At its annual Developers Conference in Las Vegas eBay announced that it will begin beta testing a new contextual advertisement system that will place contextual ads for eBay auctions on their affiliates’ sites in exchange for a…

  • Google Users in China Must Choose Between .Com or .Cn

    Google has fallen in with the ranks of other Western companies that have bent their knee to China’s censorship requirements. Google’s main site, Google.com, is still accessible in China, but at a much slower speed than the…

  • Mpire Looks to Enhance Online Shopping Experience

    Mpire.com is being spearheaded by CEO Matt Hulett, the former president of Expedia. The new online shopping site allows users to search for items on eBay, Yahoo!, Overstock, and Craigslist all on one site. Search results can be…

  • Record Number of IM Attacks in May

    Postini, a company that provides Integrated Message Management technology and services, announced last week that the month of May saw the most corporate Instant Messaging (IM) attacks ever. Corporate IM traffic increased…

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    Dell Offers Incentives Via Online World Cup Game

    Consumers in the U.K. could score thanks to a Dell promotion tied to the World Cup Tournament underway in Germany.

  • SPOTLIGHT ON… Rick Raddatz from AudioGenerator

    – Meet Rick Raddatz, who put audio on the web for increasing website conversion
    – Find out his partnership strategy
    – Discover how to make software services popular for consumers

  • TicketsNow and StubHub Cleaning up Ticket Resale

    Ticket scalping has been a practice that was never highly regarded and involved many risks for buyers. However, the Internet may play a major role in altering the face of ticket reselling. Two sites offer answers to the problems…

  • Online Advertising Revenue Continues Growth

    According to the most recent report from the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) and PricewaterhouseCoopers, Internet ad revenue climbed to $3.864 billion for the first quarter of 2006. This is a 38% increase from last year’s first…

  • Text Links Tips

    Text links are loved by some and hated by others, but regardless of what your personal stance on the issue is text links are tools that should be, at the very least, understood…

  • Ask Unveils Blog Search Feature

    Ask acquired Bloglines in February of 2005, but has so far kept both sites separate. However, with the release of a new blog and feed search function Ask has combined some of the technologies of both sites and is offering the…