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  • Spyware Trickster Forced to Cough up Dollars, Information

    Timothy P. Taylor was asked to pay up $4,595.36 by a U.S. District Court for the District Of Nevada, formally ending a lawsuit filed by the FTC in November 2006.

  • Google Wins Handily in February

    According to the latest numbers released by Hitwise, Google gobbled up 66.44% of all U.S. search queries in February 2008.

  • Power to The People – Part 1

    As we wrote last month during our analysis of the Writer’s Guild of America strike, the 101 day work stoppage led to “$1.3 billion in lost revenue by Hollywood-dependent businesses and $750 million in lost…

  • Power to The People – Part 2

    Despite it being the largest corporate employer and having no shortage of detractors, Wal-Mart doesn’t come close to qualifying as a monopoly. Granted, in many areas, especially rural, their presence has greatly reduced the number…

  • Electronic Retailer Magazine Announces LiveEdit Lab, New York

    eMarketer’s Geoff Ramsey and Didit’s Kevin Lee to Deliver Keynotes.

  • The Future of Online Video Advertising – CPA

    With the advent of companies offering video advertising, how do you determine one company from the next? If you are a Direct Response (DR) advertiser they seem to be all the same.

  • YouTube Upgrading to Higher Resolution

    While other video sharing sites, including Vimeo, Dailymotion, and the recently shuttered Stage6, have offered high quality videos, YouTube has not made any visible headway towards that end until recently. The popular online video destination was recently found to be tinkering with the quality of some of its videos.

  • Internet Audience in the U.S. is on Upward Path

    There were 188.1 million Internet users in the U.S. during 2007, according to eMarketer. This reflected a growth of 3.4%. In 2008, the audience is expected to grow another 3.1% to 193.9 million, which is approximately two-thirds of the country’s total population.

  • Google Tops U.K. List in January

    A recent report released by comScore World Metrix showed that Google Sites attracted the largest audience of unique visitors in the U.K. during the month of January.

  • Baidu Begins Testing Hi

    While Baidu holds a strong leadership position in China’s search engine market, holding a 60.1% share at the end of the fourth quarter of 2007 (to Google’s 25.9% share), it has yet to set foot in the instant messaging market in its homeland.