Email Scams Already Way More Prevalent in ’09
We're only on day ten of 2009, and MessageLabs (owned by Symantec) is already telling me that it has detected a significant…
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We're only on day ten of 2009, and MessageLabs (owned by Symantec) is already telling me that it has detected a significant…
Below overview checks which Google products directly make money for Google in terms of being paid for by the user, or having ads or affiliate links. Indirect effects on revenues (as well as some other things) are disregarded for this purpose, but not because the effects are necessarily neglible.* The table is just an estimate – if you see ommissions or misses please comment and…
Indicators that times are tough shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone, and a new report from eMarketer suggests that some advertisers will respond by making cutbacks. The research and analysis company took a close look at a few social networks, though, and believes advertisers in the UK won't turn their backs on them too much.
Covering industry news, naturally I read a lot of press releases. Sometimes they're sent directly to me or our news team as a whole, sometimes I find them online through PR wires, and sometimes I will find them on the companies' websites.
Expect more sophisticated spamming in 2009. And thanks to the economy, an increase in scams targeting the down and out, the tax-rebate hopeful, and the noble yet digitally naïve pull-yourself-up-by-your-bootstraps market.
Close to 4 million British shoppers went online to purchase goods on Christmas Day, spending a total of $154 million (102 million pounds) according to a new report from the ecommerce retailing body IMRG.