Sphinn Takes On Upcoming Spammers

The SEO-friendly social media site Sphinn may have been a little too friendly with submitters, something they addressed with a recent site change.

Miri Systems Aims To Reduce Online Fraud

Miri Systems, a privately owned developer of the Miri Card designed to allow credit card users make secure transactions online by providing a unique number for each purchase recently spoke to Webproworld about its technology.

5 Tech Deals That Should Happen

Today's big news from TechCrunch is is that Google is in the final stages of acquiring digg for about $200 million.  Makes sense to me.  Particularly given some of Google's recent experiments having social voting in their search results pages.

Google Hearts Digg Rumors Resurface

For the third time this year speculation has aroused around an impending sale of Digg.com to Google. Is the third time a charm? We may not know for a couple of weeks, but at least this latest round of slow-news-day maybes has a rumored letter of intent and a believe-it-or-not deadline.

Online Presence Vital For Offline Retail

The Internet plays an increasingly essential role in retail for brick and mortar retailers, even for purchases made in-store according to a new survey from Nielsen Online.People who had recently made consumer electronics purchases in a brick and mortar store, 80 percent bought from a store whose Web site they visited first. In addition 53 percent purchased from a retailer on whose Web site they…