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.

Performance Based Ad Network to Connect Global Advertisers and Publishers

Nine leading ad networks are coming together at Affiliate Summit East 2009 in New
York because they all agree – the grass is greener. All nine networks are powered by LinkTrust, the top
software solution for advanced affiliate tracking, ad network management and real‐time lead generation
services.

The National Retail Federation’s most recent back-to-school shopping survey, “2009 Back to School Consumer Intentions and Actions Survey,” shows that the economy will put some downward pressure on back-to-school and back-to-college spending this year.

According to a study conducted by Anderson Analytics, all age groups in the U.S. use social networking sites more to keep in touch with friends than anything else, while big portions of older age groups are using Facebook and MySpace.

According to McAfee’s Q2 Threats Report, spam and botnets are at all-time highs, with the quarter’s boost in spam volume marking the longest streak of increasing spam volumes ever.

According to New York-based e-mail marketing analysis company Email Data Source, Twitter is the most linked-to site in e-mail marketing in 2009, followed closely by Facebook.

Google was both the top parent company and the top Web brand in June, according to Nielsen Online.

Google was both the top parent company and the top Web brand in June, according to Nielsen Online.

When writing about Microsoft and Yahoo this week, we couldn’t help but think of AOL. These are three of the largest aggregators of inventory, three of the biggest names in online advertising, each trying to retain and/or regain their…