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An Indiana man was sentenced to over two years in prison for selling over $700,000 worth of counterfeit software on eBay, the US Department of Justice announced.
Courtney Smith, 36, of Anderson, Ind., was sentenced in US District Court to 27 months in prison, a two-year supervised release, and will face fines and restitution in excess of $7,000. That’s a pretty stiff penalty considering he only made $4,000 from the sale of pirated Rockwell Automation software.
The difference between Yahoo’s second quarter net income between the second quarters of 2005 and 2006 can be explained as a one-time event, but pushing back the new advertising system to 2007 has not been accompanied by much of an explanation. Yahoo’s earnings announcement this week disclosed that the dropoff in net income could be attributed to some non-repeating factors. The company reached certain settlements and sold off some investments, and reaped those gains in 2005. According to Yahoo, without those gains they actually increased net income against the same period last year.
It’s that time of year again — time to get serious and make final decisions about 2004 online and offline marketing budgets, time to update the business plan, and time to dig up that allusive research that we all use to justify long-term decision making. Here are some figures and predicted trends from recent online-marketing studies, which are worth keeping in mind when developing 2004 proposals and internal marketing plans.
