Topic

Digital

  • First Ad Apps Get Okay from TRUSTe

    TRUSTe, the non-profit organization that certifies the security of Web portals and e-mail traffic, has issued its first list of ad-serving application downloads certified to play by the rules.

  • Trademark Case against Google May Be Dismissed

    A U.S. judge said on Friday he will decide as early as next month whether to dismiss a four-year-old trademark abuse case brought against Google

  • LookSmart Narrows Quarterly Loss

    Online ad network and tech platform LookSmart reported a net earnings loss of under $14 million for 2006 on revenue of $48.8 million, an improvement from a loss of $17.8 million on $41.4 million revenue in fiscal 2005.

  • Payless Telecom Acquires Grid Merchant Services

    Payless Telecom Solutions Inc. has acquired Grid Merchant Processing Inc.

  • Short Cuts

    Coremetrics, a provider of on-demand Web analytics will resell YourAmigo’s Spider Linker search engine optimization service

  • Making the Mobile Optimization Call

    (Searchline) No one can be sure that Apple’s rollout of the iPhone this June will make 2007 the watershed year for the mobile Internet and thus for mobile search. After all, asking users to pay $499 for a mobile phone with 4 GB of memory is about

  • Web Site Offers Baby Gifts From Around the World

    One night a few years ago, a pregnant Andrea McGinty was searching the Web for interesting and unusual items for her soon-to-be-born daughter. She quickly became bored with the similar items she was finding on different sites.

  • The Blog’s the Thing for DramaGoodies.com

    Theatre lover Angela Mitchell uses blogs to find customers and creative ideas for her website.

  • Making the Mobile Optimization Call

    If Apple’s iPhone can do for smart phones what its iPod did for MP3 players, this may turn out to be the year Web operators get really interested in optimizing their sites for discovery and display by mobile devices. And according to Cindy Krum, senior search optimization analyst for Denver-based Blue Moon Works, the time is now to start thinking about how your site shows up in mobile.

  • Build a Better Valentine’s Day? It Takes Time

    If real life mirrored sitcom clichés, spouses and sweethearts would knock out their Valentine’s Day shopping with a wilted rose and some chalky chocolates bought at the local convenience store late in the evening of Feb. 14. But according to a study just released by search marketing firm OneUpWeb, love is in the air surprisingly early for online Valentine’s Day shoppers.