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  • SynthaSite Secures $20 Million in Series B Funding from Reinet Fund

    Reinet Invests in SynthaSite’s Vision to Bring Professional Web Site Builder to Small Businesses and Individuals Worldwide

  • Google Maps Overtakes MapQuest

    For the first time ever, Google Maps has overtaken long-time online maps leader MapQuest in January – at least, according to initial reports from comScore, as verified by Greg Sterling at Search Engine Land.

  • Spain Sees Surge in Number of Internet Users

    The latest figures released by Nielsen Online show that the number of Spain’s active Internet home users in November saw a month-to-month jump of 6.37 percent in November.

  • US Retail E-Commerce Sales Dismal in Fourth Quarter

    According to comScore’s latest retail e-commerce sales figures for the U.S., the fourth quarter of 2008 was the first time the company observed a negative year-over-year percent change.

  • Hyundai to Star Again in Fox’s ‘24’

    Reprising its role in the two-hour “24: Redemption” season opener, the Hyundai Genesis will ride in the Fox series again as the automaker assumes a larger sponsorship in the action series.

  • Incentive Promotion: Crossing the Chasm

    The rise of the fake blogs (“flogs”) and what has subsequently been called flogvertising has its many supporters, e.g,. those making a killing and the FTC bean counters, as well as its fair share of detractors, e.g., burned…

  • Incentive Promotion: Crossing the Chasm – Part 2

    In the past we’ve written, probably more than any other publication, about various forms of incentivized marketing. It’s an amazing business that has had more comebacks than John Elway, and despite the lickin’, keeps on…

  • 52 Percent of US Internet Users will be Social Network Users by 2013

    Figures released on Monday by eMarketer showed that an estimated 79.5 million Internet users in the U.S. used social networks in 2008, about 41 percent of the entire Internet population in the country.

  • Mobile, Mobile, Mobile

    A recent study released by KPMG LLP, an audit, tax and advisory company, in conjunction with the venture capital new media organization AlwaysOn, highlighted the growing importance of the mobile realm.

  • Resurgence of Facebook Applications

    It could easily be argued that Facebook’s redesign more than six months ago basically threw a blanket over the social network’s applications. While many of the irritating aspects of applications were muted thanks to the new interface, it came at a big cost to Facebook application developers.