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  • Fox Gets More Web 2.0

    Using some of their $2 billion in acquisition resources, News Corporation’s Fox Interactive Media (FIM) segment purchased two relatively new Web 2.0 companies named Newroo and kSolo.com. Both sites focus on user-generated…

  • Google Fears IE7

    A story in the New York Times on Monday indicated that Google was talking to the U.S. Justice Department and the European Commission about Microsoft’s beta version of Internet Explorer 7. According to Google representatives, the…

  • ABC Unveils Full Streaming Episodes for Free

    Last month, ABC announced that they would be offering streaming full episodes of four of its most popular shows as part of its two-month trial. The trial began on Monday, May 1, and will offer users streaming episodes of…

  • DM Pimping Cartoon V29

    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 Internet Land Grab

    When you are making a lot of money, you probably don’t care whether the Wall Street Journal covers your industry or even your company. The validation might be nice, but whether they cover it or not doesn’t impact the success of the…

  • Internet Land Grab: Part II

    Talking about the domain name industry today is really talking about the Internet land grab, and in many ways it paralleled the expansion of the US. Pioneers went out and laid claim to settled a large chunk of the land. When

  • Holiday Inn Scores Home Run as MLB’s Hotel

    The Holiday Inn has been named the Official Hotel of Major League Baseball (MLB) as part of a three-year sponsorship agreement announced last week. The partnership has been dubbed the largest sponsorship between a U.S. sports league and a hotel industry player.

  • General Mills Drops Betty Crocker Rewards

    General Mills is phasing out its Betty Crocker Rewards program to concentrate on the broader Boxtops for Education program.

  • P&I Postscripts

    DELTA AIRLINES: was honored April 30 at InsideFlyer magazine’s Freddie Awards for…1-800-FLOWERS.COM: has expanded its customer retention and loyalty programs where…

  • L.A. Cops Mistake M:I:III News Rack Promo for Bomb

    A Paramount Pictures promotion for the upcoming release of Mission: Impossible: III involving newspaper racks got off to a bang over the weekend, as police mistook a device attached to a rack that played the film’s theme song for a bomb.