More Employers Monitoring Workers Internet Use

More than one-fourth of U.S. employers have terminated employees for misusing email and one third have fired an employee for abusing the Internet according to the 2007 Electronic Monitoring & Surveillance Survey from American Management Association (AMA) and The ePolicy Institute.Twenty-eight percent of employers who have fired a worker for email misuse did so for violation of company policy (64%); inappropriate or offensive language (62%);…

An Introduction To SEO

Welcome to Daryl Quenet's introduction to Search Engine Optimization (SEO), optimizing design, and how to maximize your websites search engine positioning for the major search engines. When it comes to running an effective website that ranks well on the search engine results pages (SERPs), there are three major factors that can influence the number of search engine referrals (incoming searches) you get. This applies to…

Valleywag Salaciousness A Real Money Shot

A simple formula pays off at the Valleywag corner of the Gawker Media empire: take a mostly male audience in a notoriously sexually frustrated profession, add a dirty-talking scribe, and watch the page views roll on in.

Citi Still Feels Good About Google

Google may not be as great a bet as it once was, according to a Citi analyst.  Mark Mahaney believes the company is in pretty decent shape, though, and despite lowering his target by $25 (to $625), is standing by his "buy" rating.