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  • DM Pimping Cartoon V8

    Persistent Screamers become comic book creations in the newest addition to the Confidential, DM Pimping. The Web Surfing Sinners get brought to animated life in this weekly cartoon for the online media masses. Click below to get flashed by the prettiest peons and ugliest underbelly of affiliate life.

  • Match.com and Yahoo! Have Dates in Court

    Earlier this month, on November 10th, a racketeering lawsuit was filed against Match.com, a popular online dating service. Match.com, a division of IAC/Interactive, is being accused of trying to lure customers into renewing their subscriptions…

  • Google Possibly Courting Riya

    There is speculation on the Web that Google is in talks with recently-launched Silicon Valley company Riya to acquire the company for about $40 million. Riya is a Redwood City, California-based startup that allows people to search their digital photos…

  • Sealed Vs. Open Keyword Auction

    If you have ever seen a mortgage lead form, you will know that one of the drop downs deals with the potential borrower’s credit. Not being a mortgage banker or broker, it would seem reasonable to believe that those on the lending side would only want to…

  • A Giant In The Making

    Could a company that generates per year what a similar company does per month, one whose market cap equals that bigger company’s quarterly revenues, be considered the “next” iteration of it? That appears to be the question that CGI Holdings Corp…

  • P&I Postscripts

    HYATT HOTELS CORP.: has rolled out Hyatt Gift Cards, which can be used toward overnight stays and hotel services, including spa treatments, golf and restaurants. The gift card, which launched last week, can be loaded with up to $500. Starting today, …

  • E-tailers Prep Promos for ‘Cyber Monday’

    Online retailers are prepping for a rush of shoppers to hit their sites next Monday, a full three days after brick-and-mortar retailers’ traditional holiday shopping kickoff on Black Friday. Online retailers will host promotions and price cuts on Nov. …

  • DM Pimping Cartoon V7

    Persistent Screamers become comic book creations in the newest addition to the Confidential, DM Pimping. The Web Surfing Sinners get brought to animated life in this weekly cartoon for the online media masses. Click below to get flashed by the prettiest peons and ugliest underbelly of affiliate life.

  • The Blurring of Search and Media

    That Ad:Tech might have felt crowded, overlapping, and utterly confusing – reflects not on the show but the industry. Our industry used to have easily defined boundaries and companies that could fit into independent silos. Like the continents, the…

  • The Ownership of Traffic

    The first half of A Crash Course on the Digital Marketing Vendor Landscape, the basis to last week’s two part Digital Marketing 101, focused on the different types of internet advertising and the companies that operate in them. The second half…