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  • Is it 2009 Yet?

    When talking about the stock market, a friend of mine recently joked, “So I take it, you too are now a long-term investor?” He joked, because as two non-savvy investors, we have lost so much since the start of this year that…

  • The Bubble Is Bursting

    We’d joke and say that you’d have to be Osama bin Laden to not know of the housing crisis stemming from a complete meltdown in our credit system, but then again, bin Laden probably knows more about it than we…

  • News, the Broken Variety: Huge Mergers

    This episode of Broken News is brought to you by our trusted industry insider, Cauldron Larynx. Cauldron utilizes deep knowledge, deeper skills and deepest relationships to make up the most breaking and relevant news in the Affiliate Marketing sector.

  • The FTC Puts the Heat on Payday Loans and Consumer Finance Advertising Online

    Recent legal community buzz involves talk of a new direction for FTC prosecutions of online marketers. Apparently, the FTC has decided that it’s time to get seriously involved in the protection of consumers responding to ads…

  • DM Confidential Offices Under attack

    DM operates out of 475 kent ave, Sunday the fire department issued an eviction notice – here is a press release from the 475 Kent Tenants Association

  • Leveraging Social Networking Sites: Online Lead Generation

    Two out of every three Internet users visit a social networking site each day, according to the web statistics company, Compete. This means that social networking sites are quickly approaching the traffic level of the big portals like…

  • China’s Online Population Reaches 210 Million

    According to the China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC), the online population in China has reached 210 million, a whopping 53% increase from last year’s 137 million online population. This puts China on pace to…

  • Financial Services Dominate Online Ad Spending (For Now)

    A December 2007 report released by Nielsen Online AdRelevance shows that financial service firms spent more than a quarter of a million dollars on online display advertising, or 29% of all money spent on online ad spending.

  • Google Sites Continue Lead in Online Video

    Recent figures released by comScore Video Metrix show that Google Sites pumped up its online video market share to 31.3% in November, an increase of more than two percent from October. Almost 3 billion videos were viewed on…

  • Google’s Search Share Drops in December

    Google handled 56.3% of all U.S. search queries in December, which was a drop from November’s 57.7% share. Its searches per user also decreased from 40.8 in November to 37.9 in December.