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UBS lowers Internet ad spending estimates

News Latest analyst ad-spending cut suggests that Internet advertising could grow only 10 percent in 2009, but that is one of the more optimistic outlooks right now.

Monday, November 17 2008 10:42 AM

Tags: Internet advertising, Marketing, Web sites, Earning reports/forecasts, UBS AG, Internet Advertising, server farm, Gawker Media, advertising industry, Oklahoma

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PCCW closes AdSociety; 100 jobs lost

News Pacific Century Cyberworks Ltd (PCCW) has pulled the plug on its online advertising and marketing unit, AdSociety.

Wednesday, October 03 2001 06:53 PM

eBay to buy Shopping.com for US$620 million

News Auction giant says the deal will enhance its service with comparison shopping capabilities.

Thursday, June 02 2005 10:59 AM

Tags: E-commerce, Search, Acquisitions, Advertising

COO: Facebook can build your business, and now we can prove it

News Facebook's COO formally announces the social-networking company's "strategic alliance" to build social-media audience measurement tools with Nielsen.

Wednesday, September 23 2009 11:49 AM

Tags: Web 2.0, Tool, Australia, social networking, Facebook, brand, market research, emergency service, Web 2.0

Web tracking criticized as privacy violation

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Friday, June 01 2001 03:11 PM

The end of spyware? Fat chance

Insight The dialogue has just begun, but CNET News.com's Charles Cooper says a chasm still separates the opposing sides in this debate.

Monday, May 09 2005 09:15 PM

Tags: Business security, PC security, Data security

Chinadotcom to make US$70m provision for Q4

News Chinadotcom Corp, an operator of Asian news Web sites, said it will book a provision of at least US$70 million for the fourth quarter to cover the reduced value of its securities investments.

Monday, February 05 2001 07:02 PM

Microsoft to spend US$10m on MSN in Asia

News Microsoft Corp will be spending US$10 million on its MSN Web portal in Asia, to encourage businesses to use the Internet for marketing.

Wednesday, October 17 2001 11:49 AM

Google ETA? 300 years to index the world's info

News Google's Eric Schmidt talks about his company's mission, among other things, at a national advertisers conference during the weekend.

Monday, October 10 2005 11:02 AM

Tags: Search, Internet advertising

Research: Spyware industry worth billions

News Webroot's report on the spyware epidemic indicates that the malicious applications are attracting a growing share of online ad spending.

Wednesday, May 04 2005 09:06 AM

Tags: Spam and phishing

EU votes to restrict cookies

News Privacy advocates have won the first stage of a battle to restrict the use of cookies, but advertisers say it will have a damaging effect on industry.

Thursday, November 15 2001 10:47 AM

Online-ad industry group reinvents itself

News With the online-advertising industry tarnished, its main representative body is doing some spring cleaning.

Friday, June 01 2001 04:30 PM

AOL goes public with local search

News The service lets people personalize search results to their locale and review past queries.

Friday, February 25 2005 08:46 AM

Tags: Web browsers, Search

Report: Google, CBS in talks on ads, content

News Google-CBS deal would open markets to Google Radio and boost revenue and viewers for CBS.

Friday, January 12 2007 11:06 AM

Tags: Search, Internet advertising

Quantifying Microsoft's biggest purchase ever

News For US$6 billion, Redmond gets Aquantive, a leading player in serving online ads. But will it get peace of mind?

Monday, May 21 2007 09:33 AM

Tags: Acquisitions, Internet advertising