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Web analytics isn't what it used to be. A new breed of tools and technologies has led to a rebirth of analytical hopefuls, and well-known brands are hopping on board Omniture is the largest stand-alone Web analytics application service provider. The company grew more than 150 percent in 2004, with seven consecutive quarters of profitability and cli...
Consumers spent a whopping US$8.8 billion in online shopping purchases this holiday season, a 24 percent increase over the year-ago period from Thanksgiving through December 27, according to VeriSign. It's a record-breaking year, and analysts said the future of e-commerce looks bright The average price of an online purchase through Wednesday, Decem...
Samsung has announced that it will set aside US$100 million in case the U.S. government finds it guilty of fixing dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) prices The U.S. Department of Justice has been looking into allegations of price fixing in the memory industry for more than two years....
The holiday shopping season data just keeps rolling in as analysts begin to decipher what it means for next year. The latest monitor to offer its data is Hitwise, reporting that shopping and classifieds Web sites accounted for 9.1 percent of all U.S. Internet visits between November 1 and December 25 Traffic to those sites was up 25.6 percent over ...
Dutch authorities have announced that country's first fines against spammers, including one person and two companies who sent unsolicited e-mails and mobile telephone text messages This marks the first action against spammers since the Netherlands government agreed in May to officially ban unsolicited e-mail. The Independent Post and Telecommunicat...
In a move to grab a larger share of consumer appliance sales, the world's largest home improvement retailer announced plans today to expand its store-based home appliance business to the Web Home Depot is launching a new online initiative that allows consumers to purchase more than 1,800 products, including leading-brand washers, dryers and refrige...
Shoppers might not have left the mall completely behind during the 2004 holiday shopping season, but it is clear that consumers did more shopping from the comfort of their living rooms than ever before Amazon.com was among the first to declare festive earnings in this year's record-breaking online holiday shopping season when the company reported i...
In a move that illustrates an emerging trend in the mobile market, Japanese wireless operator NTT DoCoMo yesterday announced a US$3 million investment in MontaVista Software, a U.S. developer of Linux software for telecommunications equipment and mobile handsets. DoCoMo will obtain an equity stake in the company Jupiter Research wireless analyst Mi...
The week of December 13 -- the second of this year's two prime weeks of the online holiday shopping season -- saw a record US$2.2 billion of purchases, and Monday of that week was the top online shopping day of the year, according to VeriSign's latest e-commerce data The total volume of online sales transactions recorded during that week reached 28...
The Washington Post Company announced today that it has reached a deal to acquire the online magazine Slate from Microsoft for an undisclosed sum "Slate has been a pioneer in Internet publishing, and it is a fine magazine," Donald Graham, chairman and chief executive officer of the Washington Post Company said. "Founder Michael Kinsley, editor Jaco...
In a move to distinguish itself from its successful travel properties in an increasingly competitive landscape, IAC/InterActiveCorp. will spin off Expedia and its other related travel Web sites next year as a separate publicly traded company, company officials said "We believe greater value can be created in the configuration," IAC chairman and CEO...
Recent activity in the business process management (BPM) space signals a coming of age for an application that until recently was the focus of pure-play BPM providers. So says Chuck Ames, president and CEO of Oak Grove Systems, a BPM software company based in Calabasas, California JBoss' recent jBPM announcement, along with acquisitions like Tibco'...
Microsoft reportedly has sold a Utah-based development studio that makes its sports video games, the second time in recent months that the company has sold off a game-development operation, effectively changing the gaming industry landscape The studio, known as Indie Built, was sold for an undisclosed sum to Take-Two Interactive Software, the New Y...
EBay has expressed "outrage" over the arrest of the chief executive of its operations in India because a user of its shopping and auction portal, Baazee.com, listed a controversial pornographic video clip EBay said in a statement that it was "outraged" that Avnish Bajaj, an Indian-born U.S. citizen who had voluntarily traveled to New Delhi to furth...
The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has announced that its member companies filed a new wave of copyright infringement lawsuits against 754 individual file-sharers A share of this wave of lawsuits filed Wednesday was brought against users of university computer networks. Twenty individual file sharers at the Columbia University, Ol...
After a two-day presentation in court, a federal judge has ruled in favor of Google in a trademark infringement case filed by insurer GEICO. That frees Google to display rival logos when users search under the keyword GEICO U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema of the Eastern District of Virginia said there was not enough evidence of trademark violat...
The non-profit Mozilla Foundation has placed an ad in today's edition of the New York Times. The open-source advocacy organization is pleading its alternative case with a two-page spread that asks readers the direct question: "Are you fed up with your Web browser?" Spread Firefox, a volunteer-run Mozilla advocacy site, coordinated the ad, which f...
On the heels of IBM's decision to sell its PC unit to Chinese player Lenovo, Forrester Research is reporting that the number of personal computers in use worldwide will more than double to almost 1.3 billion by the end of the decade That's up from 575 million today, according to the Forrester report, which sizes up PC adoption rates across 16 emerg...
The second week of the prime holiday shopping season accounted for US$2.2 billion of online purchases, with the number of transactions up 21 percent over the same week last year, according to VeriSign's latest e-commerce data Monday, December 6, was the peak day of the week, accounting for 5.4 million transactions, surpassing the "Black Monday" res...
Microsoft has announced a beta version of its new MSN Toolbar Suite, which includes desktop search functionality designed to help users quickly find virtually any type of document, media file or e-mail message on their Windows-based PC MSN Toolbar Suite is the promised response to the Google Desktop Search product released in October. Both search t...
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