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Internet Polices Itself on Blogger Advertising Better Than the FTC Ever Could
Paul M. Rand
The explosive growth of the Internet and resulting popularity of blogginghave transformed how marketers market. New guidelines from the Federal Trade Commission are expected to cover social media as well as paid media (advertising) and should provide clear direction to help prevent misleading endorsements, ensure effective disclosure, and dissuade financial incentives to write only favorable comments.
Fairness in Advertising Must Extend to the Blogosphere
Robert Weissman
When bloggers are being paid to say a product is good, readers should know the deal. A core principle of U.S. communications and fair advertising law is that people have a right to know when they are being advertised to. There's no reason this rule shouldn't apply to the Internet.
Ballmer Gives Shareholders - and Dell - Cause for Optimism
The early indicators that Windows 7 is doing well seem to be piling up. CEO Steve Ballmer gave that perception a boost at the company's annual shareholders meeting on Thursday, announcing that Microsoft "has already sold twice as many units of Windows 7 than any other operating system ever launched in a comparable time." Do the early numbers indicate that Windows 7 may be strong enough to cheer the shareholders of other companies -- namely, battered computer OEMs like Dell?
Sony Talks Up Plans for Digital Media Superstore
Many companies would give up their right to right-click to be able to duplicate Apple's success with iTunes. However, only one actually has the pieces already in place to do that, and its executives announced their intentions Thursday to take on Steve Jobs' company with its own online content service.
AA.com Sucks the Fun Out of Trip-Planning
It's fitting that the last stop on my tour of travel-planning Web sites for the E-Commerce Times was American Airlines. The site illustrates all of the problems that spurred this special look at travel sites in the first place. Travel sites have developed a reputation for being hard to navigate and poorly designed with cluttered user interfaces.
Health Insurance CRM, Part 2: The BPO Catalyst
CRM has lagged in the health insurance industry, but a major transformation is imminent. "There's been a reluctance to make comprehensive investments in technology compared with other sectors," said Gartner analyst Joanne Galimi. "Generally, the firms in the sector have been very tactical, only investing in specific areas -- basically reacting to pain points."
EU Gives Oracle Extension to Build Sun Deal Defense
European Union regulators said Friday that they have extended until Jan. 27 a deadline to wrap up their antitrust review of Oracle's planned US$7.4 billion takeover of Sun Microsystems. The European Commission said Oracle had asked for more time "in order to have the opportunity to further develop its arguments in response to the Commission's concerns."
AOL Spinoff May Send Third of Workforce Reeling
From high-flying Internet pioneer to movie punchline: AOL's nadir may have come when Nicole Kidman's character in the 2004 remake of "The Stepford Wives" asks a group of husbands of robotic spouses where they work. "AOL," answers one man. "Is that why the women are so slow?" Kidman responds. The joke offers cold comfort to the AOL employees who found out Thursday that one-third of the workforce may be let go.
Salesforce.com Pumps Up Volume of Workplace Chatter
Salesforce.com is marrying its cloud computing bona fides with its growing expertise in collaboration in Salesforce Chatter, a new application and development platform. The company introduced the product at its Dreamforce tradeshow and conference under way in San Francisco.
Breaking Out of the Pink Ghetto
The Pink Ghetto is a largely invisible, often unmentioned and unacknowledged place littered with impediments to womens' upward mobility in the workplace. Women in the Pink Ghetto do not get equal pay for equal work, are not offered the same opportunities as their male coworkers, are not promoted as quickly as men -- or promoted at all.
Health Insurance CRM, Part 1: Shifting Into Catch-Up Mode
The health insurance industry, especially in the U.S., has a long way to go before it achieves a high level of performance in the use of customer relationship management tools. However, pressure is coming from market forces -- including new government healthcare reform policies -- that will compel improvements in health insurance CRM, whether insurance companies want it or not.
New Calif. Standard Nixes Energy-Guzzling Flat-Screen TVs
California regulators have adopted the nation's first energy-efficiency standards for televisions, a move that will eventually ban power-hungry sets from the state's store shelves. Wednesday's action by the California Energy Commission could lead the way in a general reform of standards for an industry increasingly focused on wide-view, flat-screen, high-definition sets.
Senate Committee Flogs Big-Name E-Tailers for Sneaky Sales Tactics
The U.S. Senate Commerce Committee has released a report slamming the online business practices of three direct marketing companies -- Affinion, Vertrue and Webloyalty -- along with hundreds of online Web sites and retailers that participate in these practices. Many of the participating retailers are well-known brand names, such as Classmates.com, Hotwire and 1-800-Flowers.com.
Can T-Mobile Get Its Groove Back?
This fall has not been kind to T-Mobile. First, it had to account for mountains of lost data that Sidekick customers had stored. Then there was the nationwide service outage for millions of U.S. T-Mobile customers a few weeks ago. Now, it looks as though employees at T-Mobile UK have been selling competitors the names of customers whose T-Mobile contracts were about to expire.
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Infolets - Internet Innovations Explored
At the intersection between business, technology and the Internet, you have discovered Infolets. The Internet is an incubator of innovation. At Infolets we explore projects, products, and ideas that are interesting, innovative or just plain unique.
Retailer Relents on Logo Use After Pirate Bay Cries Foul
From the "Now you know how it feels" department: The Swedish online retailer that had trademarked a near replica of The Pirate Bay’s iconic logo has agreed to withdraw registration of what has become an enduring symbol of online piracy after a Pirate Bay co-founder cried foul.
Music: Too Expensive to Be Free, Too Free to Be Expensive
Advertising was supposed to be music's magic bullet, enabling fans to get the free music they’re going to find anyway while feeding copyright-holder coffers. Well, that dream is fading fast.
Google Submits New Proposal for Library of Future
Google hopes that it can find a creative legal solution that lets it create the library of tomorrow by scanning millions of books. Late Friday, it submitted a new proposal for paying authors, but is it enough to keep the feds from seeing a monopoly in the offing?
To Play With Giants, App Devs Risk Getting Squashed
Mobile app developers find that there's a risk to being a little guy: Sometimes the corporation that controls the platform, like Google or Apple, will make your app obsolete.
In Escalating War With Verizon, AT&T Is Getting Tone Deaf and Outflanked
Verizon and AT&T are going to war: As it took direct aim at the 800-pound gorilla that is the iPhone with funny and cinematic TV ads for the Droid rollout last week, Verizon is also flanking AT&T about the reach of its 3G coverage with a growing repertoire of teasing commercials. AT&T is fighting back in court and, most recently, with a bland statement that aims to 'set the record straight on Verizon ads.' Talk about asymmetric warfare.
Intel Pays AMD $1.25 billion To Settle All Disputes
Chip makers Intel and Advanced Micro Devices settle all outstanding legal disputes, including antitrust litigation and patent licensing issues. Intel pays AMD $1.25 billion as part of the settlement.
Intel to pay AMD $1.25 billion, settle all disputes
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Chip makers Intel Corp and Advanced Micro Devices Inc said they have settled all outstanding legal disputes, including antitrust litigation and patent licensing issues. Intel said on Thursday it will pay AMD $1.25 billion as part of the settlement, sending shares of AMD up nearly 30 percent. The two companies also sealed a five-year cross license deal and said they would give up any claims of breach from their previous license agreement. Competition authorities in Asia, Europe and the United States have taken action against Intel in recent years because of persistent complaints by AMD about the behavior of Intel, which makes 80 percent of the central processing units at the heart of personal computers. "While the relationship between the two companies has been difficult in the past, this agreement ends the legal disputes and enables the companies to focus all of our efforts on product innovation and development," AMD and Intel said in a joint statement. AMD said it would drop all pending litigation including a case in U.S. District Court in Delaware and two cases pending in Japan. AMD will also withdraw all of its regulatory complaints worldwide. As a result of the settlement, Intel adjusted its fourth-quarter outlook. The chip maker raised its spending forecast to $4.2 billion from $2.9 billion, and said its effective tax rate would be about 20 percent, down from 26 percent. Other expectations are unchanged, Intel said. Shares of AMD jumped 23 percent to $6.55 in early trading on the New York Stock Exchange. Intel shares were halted. (Reporting by David Lawsky and Tiffany Wu, Gerald E. McCormick, Dave Zimmerman)
Storyboard: Demand Media's Google-Crunching, Profit-Posting Answer Factory
Employing a clever algorithm and a speedy production team, the company whips up dirt-cheap videos that capitalize on internet users' queries.
Singularity University: Cracking the (Human) Code
A neuroscientist specializing in real-time brain imagery says that the next wave of knowledge, technology and business will come from learning how humans perceive, think and act.
Singularity University: Rearranging Atoms With Ralph Merkle
'If you rearrange the atoms in coal, you get diamond. If you rearrange the atoms in sand, you get silicon. How atoms are arranged is fundamental to all material aspects of life,' says Ralph Merkle, senior research chair at the Institute for Molecular Manufacturing. Those words kick off day 2 at the Singularity University Executive Program.
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Facebook Formalizes Updated Privacy Policy
The social networking company uses clearer, more accessible language to explain its privacy guidelines.
Zatista Offers Online Venue to Sell Original Artwork
Zatista, a new site for selling original artwork, offers lots of incentives for buyer and flat commissions for artists.
Build a Better Web Site with CSS
Helen Bradley explains how incorporating CSS your Web design simplifies making style changes down the road.
Market Your E-Biz: Build A Facebook Page
Social marketing can help you get the word out about your e-commerce shop. Vangie Beal takes you through the process of setting up a Business Page on Facebook.
Twitter Sounds Retreat On Retweets
Unexpected problems plaguing Twitters native retweeting feature caused the social networking site to pull it for re-tooling.
Twitter Retweets Itself. Will You Benefit?
The micro-blogging site finally builds its own way to retweet messages. Let the controversy begin.
Defining eBay, Auction and Classified Ad Acronyms
Using abbreviations on eBay and in classified ads let sellers say more about items without exceeding title length requirements. We explain what many of these abbreviations mean.
A Beginner's Guide to Twitter Terms
Ready to add Twitter to your marketing arsenal but dont know your hashtag from your retweet? With this list of terms and definitions, youll be ready to extol your sites virtues in 140 characters or less.
What Black Friday and Cyber Monday Mean to Your Business
We look at the facts and the stats to see if these two popular e-commerce dates in November are really profitable trends for small online retailers or just plain hype.
Add Print Coupons to Your E-commerce Site for Free
OneMinuteCoupon is just one of four free Web tools we feature this week. We also take a look at FiltrBox, Domain Typos Generator and TrendWatching to see how they can make your work life a bit easier.
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AMD Revises Debt Position to the Upside
Now that it's settled things with Intel, what steps is the chip company taking to deal with its debilitating debt?
RIM, Salesforce Weigh on Tech Stocks
Downgrades and disappointing earnings hit the tech sector.
Salesforce, Autodesk Fall as Nasdaq Rises
Earnings news was mixed, but a big acquisition and a Microsoft upgrade got tech investors excited.
Dell Leads Tech Stocks Higher
Stocks continued to rally Monday despite some bearish views from key officials.
Google Books Still Faces Criticism After Revision
Revised agreement revisits old objections over orphan works, DoJ still investigating.
Should Oracle Dump Europe Before MySQL?
How far can Oracle afford to go if it can't win over European regulators to complete its purchase of Sun?
Microsoft Wants to Sell Windows Themes as Ads
The software giant is betting that marketers will be willing to shell out for space on your PC desktop.
Surf's Up: Droid Boasts 25% of Android Web Traffic
Verizon's first smartphone running Google's open source mobile software sends the stat counter spinning amid a wider Android blitz.
Dell Launching Android Play in China, Brazil
The computer maker officially enters smartphone smackdown with imminent overseas launch.
Microsoft Readies Free Ad-supported Office 2010
Microsoft is preparing to beta test a stripped down version of the next Office release.
Nortel Completes Wireless Sale to Ericsson
First major asset sell-off is now finally done as Nortel pushes out the auction for its Metro Ethernet assets.
Google Makes It Official, Grabs VoIP Firm Gizmo5
Latest acquisition brings search giant one step closer to full-scale
telephony service.
Flickr-Snapfish Ties Boost Photo Print Options
Snapfish, a division of HP, will provide printing options for Flickr members worldwide.
Winners and Losers in the Intel-AMD Settlement
It's pretty much a win all around, unless you're an ambitious New York politician.
3Com, AMD Jump as Stocks Slump
Good merger and earnings news couldn't help stocks today.
Shareholders Press Cisco to Reform Exec Pay
At Cisco's annual general meeting, shareholders ask Cisco for a say in executive compensation. And don't expect a dividend from the networking giant anytime soon.
Intel, AMD Settle to the Tune of $1.25B
Deal ends AMD's lawsuits against the world's largest chipmaker, which it had accused of unfair business practices.
Q&A: LifeSize's CEO on the Logitech Deal
The videoconferencing company's CEO discusses why he sold his firm to a company best known for making mice and keyboards.
China Key to HP's Plan for 3Com
Two years after a failed deal to go private due to its operations in China, 3Com is sold to a hardware giant that wants those same Chinese operations.
AMD's Plan to Reach Financial Freedom
After getting beaten around by the economy for most of 2009, the semiconductor vendor has big expectations for next year.
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Nielsen Forecasts Coal in Your Stocking
New survey finds consumer intention to shop online this holiday season on
the decline.
Senate Panel Blasts E-Commerce 'Scams'
Senators hear horror stories of otherwise reputable e-commerce firms using shifty marketing schemes as they mull legislation to curb the practice.
Flickr-Snapfish Ties Boost Photo Print Options
Snapfish, a division of HP, will provide printing options for Flickr members worldwide.
Microsoft Readies Free Ad-supported Office 2010
Microsoft is preparing to beta test a stripped down version of the next Office release.
Global Internet Ad Spending Stabilizing: IDC
Declines continue, but the research firm looks for recovery in 2010.
IBM Personalizes Shopping With Commerce 7
WebSphere Commerce 7 adds mobile and social commerce features just in time for the holiday shopping season.
Google Buys Mobile Ad Firm AdMob for $750M
Search giant continues wireless push with deal to acquire firm specializing in mobile display ads.
Coupon Site Targets Black Friday, Cyber Monday
RetailMeNot said it's ready to deliver the best "Black Friday" deals to consumers this holiday season.
eBay, Skype Founders Settle Fight
The ownership brawl over the VoIP player's peer-to-peer technology finally draws to an end -- who's left standing?
Google Brings Enterprise Search to E-Tailers
Commerce Search product aims to improve customer experience, boost sales conversion rates.
Apple Claims 100,000 Apps, Google Analyzes Them
Apple continues to lead in bragging rights for smartphone apps, while Google expands its free Web analytics for mobile developers.
Google Friend Connect Gets Personal
The Internet giant fosters community -- and more opportunities to make cash -- with a significant upgrade to its social Web service.
PayPal Opens Up Payment Platform to Devs
With PayPal X, the leading online payments company said it's banking on outside developers to lead a new wave of applications.
Google Helps With the Password Juggle
Search giant joins Facebook and Plaxo in rolling out new technology aimed at decreasing password rage among users.
Facebook Wins $711M in 'Spam King' Lawsuit
Judge grants default judgment against Sanford Wallace for "false and misleading" e-mails on social networking site.
Craigslist's Newmark on Media's New Curator Role
A convergence of established media and consumer postings can carry or bury the news.
Google Sings a New Search Tune
Latest addition to the popular search engine is a feature designed to make it easier to find music.
Disney's Key to the Digital Kingdom
The entertainment behemoth is looking to the cloud for its answer to the digital distribution dilemma.
Augmented Reality Apps Could Reap Big Ad Bucks
Advertising on new augmented reality smartphone apps will be big business, according to a new study.
Amazon Sees Big Jump in Sales, Net Income
The e-commerce giant remains the darling of Wall Street as it beats estimates and promises holiday cheer.
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