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Borders.com has knocked off perennial champion Amazon.com by the slimmest of margins in the latest Power Rankings of online book sellers by Forrester Research, Inc. Forrester PowerRankings combines survey data from online consumers and unbiased shopping tests to provide objective rankings of the leading US eCommerce sites. In a tight three-way race, Borders.com edged out […]

Grey Joins ACTV’s Digital ADCO for SpotOn, Addressable Interactive TV Advertising Interactive TV targeted ad firm ACTV Wednesday unveiled a partnership with MediaCom, a unit of Grey Global Group’s media service partner MediaCom will work with ACTV on the development of addressable television messaging. SpotOn, a service of ACTV subsidiary Digital ADCO, targets advertising based […]

It’s a simple fact of life in the computer world – sometimes you simply can’t get something to work. One option is to call a consultant, but an Issaquah-based company filled with ex-Microsofties and other industry veterans is offering another option. Rob Laws, CEO of Solthree software calls it Venture software, but what a company […]

[Berlin, GERMANY] “More music, less money, better quality”. This is how positive the future of music distribution over the Internet looks to Christian Seidl, the editor of “jetzt”, a youth magazine from the “Suddeutsche Zeitung”, one of Germany’s leading newspapers. In the podium discussion on the topic “Wadde hadde dudde da – who will take […]

Despite the recent fall of many advertising supported business models, numerous sites still rely largely or entirely on ads for their revenue. In order to better serve the advertisers, many sites are working on various formats to allow a wider array of options, but are the advertisers taking interest? The latest research from AdRelevence, a […]

[Berlin, GERMANY] The Deutsche Telekom AG has opened up an internal investigation into the activities of Wolfgang Keuntje, the former CEO of T-Online. On Sunday, the company confirmed news reports of this. A speaker for the concern told Reuters yesterday that the investigation is focusing on whether there was a connection between the former CEO […]

Dotster Inc., a Kelso, Washington-based, ICANN accredited domain registrar, announced today that the company is now offering pre-registration of multilingual .com, .net, and .org domains. Dotster’s pre-registration service allows customers the ability to place orders for multilingual domains that will be processed November 10 when official real-time registration is scheduled to begin. The local Southern […]

William H. Hadcock, acting President and CEO of Bellevue-based Cool Entertainment, Inc., who recently replaced Clement Lau as President and CEO, announced late Friday that the Company has entered into a binding letter of intent to acquire, by way of share exchange and reorganization, all of the issued and outstanding securities of E-Trend Networks, Inc. […]

Website software vendor NetObjects Inc continued its evolution into an online software provider this week (Oct 30th) with the launch of NetObjects Matrix, an integrated suite of online services designed for business service providers. Matrix provides a platform that service providers can use to customise their own integrated set of online services targetted at small […]

[HONG KONG] AdForce Asia will supply AdForce narrowband ad serving technology to Pacific Century CyberWorks advertising joint venture AdSociety. AdSociety will use AdForce’s technology exclusively, said Mark Brown, president of AdSociety. Neither party would disclose the deal’s estimated value, but AdSociety co-founder and chief executive officer said, “This partnership does not involved up-front capital investment.” […]

PopMail.com, Inc., an online fan club marketing company based in Irving Texas, has announced that it is exploring opportunities to divest its fully-owned Bellevue-based subsidiary IZ.com. IZ.com is an affinity digital publishing company and produces the ZDNet AnchorDesk newsletter for Ziff Davis. PopMail is looking at several divestiture options including the sale of IZ.com to […]

Microsoft Corp.’s MSN eShop has spiffed itself up for an expected onslaught of holiday shoppers, adding a bargain basement type area and return center, among other improvements. The new Bargain Center offers a central location where shoppers can find the latest sale items from all the MSN merchants, including Eddie Bauer, RadioShack and CVS. The […]