Don’t look now, but Facebook’s takeover of the world continues! According to a new report by research firm eMarketer, the social networking giant’s web advertising revenue is growing at such a clip that it will overtake both Google and Yahoo this year and become No. 1 in online display ads. eMarketer’s data projects that Facebook [...]
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Facebook Poised to Assume Top Spot in Web Advertising
Posted in Facebook Commerce, General News / Technology, tagged display advertising, Facebook Commerce, Google, Online Advertising, web advertising, Yahoo on June 22, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
ICANN Approves Plan for New Top-Level Domain Names
Posted in Ecommerce, General News / Technology, tagged ICANN, Internet addresses, top level domains, web addresses on June 21, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Touting the advent of a new age of online creativity, the organization responsible for the Internet address system has approved a measure that will allow both companies and organizations to apply for new, ‘top-level’ domain names for use in conjunction with the more than 20 domains already in existence. ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned [...]
White House Loses its CIO
Posted in General News / Technology, tagged Aneesh Chopra, Federal Chief Information Officer, Jeffrey Zients, Vivek Kundra on June 17, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Vivek Kundra, who President Obama appointed the nation’s first federal chief information officer, is leaving his post in August to start a fellowship at Harvard University. Kundra, 36, spent two and half years on the job during which he oversaw more than $80 billion worth of information technology initiatives aimed, in part, at streamlining the [...]
JC Penney Takes a Bite Out of Apple with New CEO
Posted in General News / Technology, People, Retail, tagged Apple, J.C. Penney, Myron Ullman, Ron Johnson, Target on June 16, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Ron Johnson’s work in building and expanding Apple’s retail offerings into a global force has been described by some as “iconic.” Apparently, JC Penney feels the same way. The department store chain has tabbed Johnson to be its new CEO, effective November 1. Johnson will take the reigns from current Penney’s CEO Myron Ullman, who [...]
Report Reveals Shifting Back-to-School Shopping Priorities this Year
Posted in Ecommerce, General News / Technology, Online Shopping, Retail, tagged back to school shopping 2011, back to school shopping trends 2011, Back-to-School Shopping Forecast survey, pricegrabber on June 15, 2011 | 2 Comments »
It’s hard to believe that we’re just now getting into the swing of summer and it’s already time to starting thinking about the back-to-school shopping season. Lo and behold though… PriceGrabber just rolled out its annual Back-to-School Shopping Forecast survey and the results show a bit of a shift in back-to-school shopping plans for 2011 [...]
Google Buys Online Ad Firm Admeld
Posted in General News / Technology, tagged Admeld, display advertising, DoubleClick, Google, Google and Admeld, Online Advertising on June 14, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Reinforcing the notion that the advertising business will bee an important part of its overall future growth, Google yesterday announced that it will buy the online display advertising firm Admeld. Admeld’s CEO Michael Barrett first announced the acquisition in a company blog post late last week. Though neither party confirmed the dollar figure affixed to [...]
Online Ad Spending Expected to Balloon this Year
Posted in General News / Technology, tagged eMarketer, Google, internet ads, Online Advertising, web advertising, YouTube on June 13, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Online advertising budgets experienced wave after wave of decreases as the recession wrecked havoc on overall marketing strategies, but new data from eMarketer suggests that period of cooling off is likely over and ad spending will increase across the board over the next four years. eMarketer predicts that online advertising will total $31.3 billion here [...]
E-commerce Sales Surge Continues in May
Posted in Ecommerce, General News / Technology, Retail, tagged ecommerce sales data, MasterCard Advisors, MasterCard Advisors SpendingPulse, May 2011 e-commerce sales, online sales 2011 on June 2, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Despite an unusually late-April Easter holiday that probably hindered sales in the days and weeks following it, May marked the seventh consecutive month of double digit e-commerce sales growth, according to data from MasterCard Advisors SpendingPulse report. Overall online spending in May grew 15.9 percent year over year, which also represented the 22nd straight month [...]
Texas Online Tax Bill Stalls with Governor’s Veto
Posted in General News / Technology, Online Sales Taxes, tagged Amazon, Amazon and state of Texas, internet taxation, online sales tax, Texas state internet tax law on June 1, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Striking at least a temporary blow to proponents of state-proposed online sales taxes, Texas Governor Rick Perry has vetoed a bill authored by his colleagues in the legislature intended to enact such taxes on web and catalog retailers in the state. House Bill 2403, originally introduced by state Rep. John Otto earlier this year , [...]
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