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Advertisers sunk nearly US$3 billion into online marketing campaigns in second quarter, with spending on Web advertising jumping 26 percent over the same period last year, according to a new report The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) and PricewaterhouseCoopers said Internet advertising revenues for the second quarter were $2.985 billion, up 7 ...
Saying a consumer that is aware of online threats is essential to a strong U.S. economy, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has launched its most ambitious effort yet to educate Americans on the dangers lurking on the Web The FTC joined today with cybersecurity experts in government and the private sector, consumer protection groups and online comp...
Microsoft is launching an effort to add hundreds of new employees at existing facilities in India, a move that could more than double its head-count there Reports from Indian media say Microsoft is ramping up hiring at the India Development Center (IDC) in Hyderabad and the Global Delivery Center (GDC) in Bangalore....
Bidding to enhance its ability to compete with Google and Yahoo in the revenue-generating part of the search marketplace, Microsoft unveiled a paid-search service of its own, one that seeks to take targeting of ads to a new level Microsoft's MSN formally launched the service, known as adCenter, in France and Singapore, though analysts say a broader...
Looking to add new weapons in their arsenal against illegal file-swapping, movie and music industry groups have begun to offer a free software program aimed at helping users avoid illegally sharing files and are calling on corporations to monitor their own networks for potentially illegal activity The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) an...
Film and television giant Viacom is said to be close to announcing a deal to buy video-on-demand site iFilm, a move that would give it an entirely new distribution channel for its deep well of content Viacom, which owns MTV, CBS and Nickelodeon, among other TV properties, reportedly will pay about US$50 million for privately held iFilm. Neither com...
In a move meant to help enterprises search existing data deep in legacy systems, Google has launched a partner program that will enable Google enterprise search to be integrated into existing data management and storage programs Google today launched Google Enterprise Professional, a bid to reach out to service providers, systems integrators and co...
In the never-ending quest to differentiate themselves from competitors, online retailers often turn to content to set themselves apart and enhance the quality of their Web contact with customers and would-be customers The need to automate the distribution of content has given rise to a fast-growing software niche of Web Content Management (WCM), to...
After months of complaints that its Google Library effort constituted a violation of copyright law, Google has been sued by a leading writer's association and three writers who claim that the search giant is infringing on the works of thousands of individual writers The Authors Guild and three individual writers -- a biographer of Abraham Lincoln, ...
Microsoft has filed lawsuits against eight software re-sellers, saying that consumers helped lead them to the firms accused of selling pirated versions of the company's software Microsoft said it sued eight companies located in Arizona, California, Illinois, Minnesota and New York, with the information used in the suits gathered during investigatio...
In a case that underscores the growing pains of the online search business and the Web sector in fast-emerging China, Baidu.com has been ordered to stop providing referrals to music download sites offering certain copyright-protected songs The order from a Chinese court came in conjunction with a case in which Baidu has been found responsible for c...
In one of the first major moves since announcing a sweeping restructuring that followed the hiring of a new CEO, Hewlett-Packard said it would buy Peregrine Systems in an all-cash deal worth US$425 million The acquisition gives HP access to Peregrine's highly regarded portfolio of information technology asset management software, which is designed ...
The industry group representing major wireless telecommunications carriers is working on a ratings system for content, a move seen by some as a sign that those companies are preparing for widespread distribution of pornography and adult content to cell phones With more handsets now equipped with high-resolution color screens and even video playback...
Attempts by lawmakers to ban Internet gambling by U.S. residents hit a roadblock this week when a bill that would have made it illegal for banks or credit card companies to pay for online gaming was halted A procedural move scuttled an attempted by Republican Senator Jon Kyl of Arizona to slip an amendment onto a spending bill that would have requi...
For the second time in less than a week, a company has debuted a service and billed it as the eBay for software, with Web services the target this time StrikeIron Inc., a North Carolina-based firm that helps commercialize Web services, announced it was creating the StrikeIron Web Services Marketplace in order to help smooth the process of publishin...
The portal world was abuzz today after published and broadcast reports linked both Google and Microsoft to possible acquisitions or partnerships with America Online Time Warner, America Online's parent company, has been known to be weighing various options for cutting AOL loose from the company that it actually bought back in 1999. A possible spino...
Baidu.com, the search company billed as the Chinese version of Google, saw its stock price take a huge hit this week after two major investment banks that helped underwrite its August initial public offering cautioned that recent share price run-ups were not supported by fundamentals Both Piper Jaffray and Goldman Sachs downgraded the stock yesterd...
Cisco Systems has unveiled networking software and services that it says will make the implementation of radio frequency identification (RFID) solutions more cost-effective for enterprises The new products include middleware solutions meant to help integrate RF solutions into existing Cisco networks and make Cisco just the latest technology company...
A year after Asian mobile carriers first launched them widely, consumers are still not rushing to adopt systems that enable mobile phones to be used as electronic payment devices NTT DoCoMo launched a wallet phone service in its native Japan last year and more carriers have announced plans to follow suits in key Asian markets. Meanwhile, MasterCard...
Hoping to spur interest in its hosted platform among non-CRM users and compel more developers to build compatible tools, Salesforce.com has launched an online application marketplace Known as AppExchange, the marketplace will offer applications developed by Salesforce.com and third parties for everything from human resources and project management ...
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