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Google, Yahoo click fraud audits: When will advertisers demand them?

Google and Yahoo PR machines are convincing advertisers that click fraud is “under control.” A search engine telling an advertiser that click fraud is “under control” in its Pay Per Click account without allowing the advertiser to independently audit the engine’s claim, however, is as cavalier as saying, “don’t worry,...

Tags: click fraud, Yahoo! Inc., advertiser

Blog posts 2006-08-25

Study: Click fraud could threaten pay-per-click model

Study: Click fraud could threaten pay-per-click modelAll the greed has killed the internet anyway...Not sure it matters any more.

Tags: Advertising & Promotion, pay-per-click advertising, click fraud

Discussion threads 2006-07-06

Click fraud lawsuit targets Google

Click fraud lawsuit targets Googleyeah! Get 'em!Best of luck....Pay per SalePay per click is to easy to take advantage of and should be done away with. If Google, Yahoo, and any other search engines out the want to profit from this kind of advertising than make it Google...

Tags: Google Inc., lawsuit target, click fraud, pay-per-click advertising

Discussion threads 2005-07-01

Additional Resources

Entellium's lost millions

Larry Dignan outlines the main points of the Entellium fraud. Regardless of the final outcome, there are three glaring questions: How did the CFO and CEO overstate revenues across THREE financial years by a factor of four to five times without someone noticing the obvious problem of...

Tags: Entellium, Board, Compliance, Corporate Governance, Financial Accounting, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Finance, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-10-10

Seesmic fires a third of staff as recession bites

Loic LeMeur, CEO of Seesmic has announced the company is reducing its headcount by seven people. That may not sound like a huge number but as LeMeur says in the video announcement: ...the longevity of the company is obviously of significant importance - and thus we must reduce costs...

Tags: Recession, Video, Seesmic, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-10-10

Apple agrees to repair MacBook Pros with bad NVIDIA GPUs

Months after Dell and other notebook manufacturers came clean, Apple has admitted some culpability for failing Nvidia GPUs. The GeForce 8600M GT has been failing recently in MacBook Pros and Apple has agrred t0 will pay for the repairs.Read more about it at setteb.it english translation. by...

Tags: NVidia Corp., Apple MacBook, Apple Inc., Apple MacBook Pro, GPU, GeForce 8600M GT, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2008-10-10

My three cents: Verizon's text fee could cripple SMS services

Verizon Wireless dropped a bomb today on companies that send content over SMS text messaging systems. Techmeme Effective Nov. 1, companies that send messages and other notifications to Verizon Wireless customers via SMS text message - that's everyone from Google to Twitter to startups like alerts.com - could be forced...

Tags: Fee, Verizon Communications Inc., Text Messaging, Messaging, SMS, Verizon Wireless, Twitter, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Telephony, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Networking, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-10-10

Are there really too many Windows editions?

Ask any Windows pundit about all the different versions of Windows Vista that Microsoft offers and you'll invariably get the same response. There are too many! Consumers are confused! It all needs to be simplified! To which I say: Be careful what you wish for. The case for reducing the...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Edition, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Ed Bott

Blog posts 2008-10-10

Wall Street: MSFT should buy Yahoo, consider RIM

A Wall Street investor has suggested that the stars may be aligned just right for Microsoft to make another run at Yahoo, this time for $22 per share. Investment fund Mithras Capital, which owns more than 1.9 million shares, or 0.14 percent, of Yahoo, said Microsoft has a window of...

Tags: Research In Motion Ltd., Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., MSFT, Financial Accounting, Search, Advertising & Promotion, Handhelds, Finance, Marketing, Hardware, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-10-10

News to know: Apple's $800 laptop; MS and Mac Patch Days; Vista Home for business

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Ryan Naraine: Mac OS X Patch Day: 40 security flaws fixed MS Patch Tuesday heads-up: 11 bulletins, 4 critical Ed Bott: Look who's buying...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Microsoft Windows Vista, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Laptop Computer, H-1B, Notebooks, Human Resources, Labor Relations, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, David Grober

Blog posts 2008-10-10

Email Extractor (msi)

Email Extractor is a tool to extract email address from many different types of files, such as pst, msg, html, txt, and zip. Email Extractor is very easy to use, just drag and drop the folder or files into the process window, then click run, you will get a unique...

Tags: E-mail Address, Message Compass, Email Extractor, E-mail, Online Communications

Software downloads 2008-10-10

India Radio (gadget)

Introducing the India Radio gadget with 30 stations of Web radio. Simply click on the radio station you desire and play the live internet stream. Don't pay for web radio, when you can listen for free. This gadget uses your windows media player and real player for audio broadcasts, the...

Tags: Web, Radio, Gadget, Sidebar Gadgets, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing

Software downloads 2008-10-10

Radio Hong Kong (gadget)

Introducing the Radio Hong Kong gadget with 15 stations of streaming digital radio. Simply click on the radio station you desire and play the live Internet stream. Don't pay for Web radio, when you can listen for free. This gadget uses your windows media player and real player for audio...

Tags: Radio, Sidebar Gadgets, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing

Software downloads 2008-10-10

France Radio (gadget)

Introducing the Radio France gadget with 60 stations of streaming digital radio. Simply click on the radio station you desire and play the live Internet stream. Don't pay for live audio streams, when you can listen for free. This gadget uses your windows media player and real player for audio...

Tags: Radio, Gadget, Sidebar Gadgets, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing

Software downloads 2008-10-10

Kasha's Rap Toolbar (exe)

An Internet browser toolbar for rap lovers. This takes your standard toolbar functions and gives them a rap music edge. Always be 1 click away from your favorite genre. This toolbar incorporates functions such as rss feeds, search box, mail checker, weather check and a radio preprogramed with stations such...

Tags: Toolbar, Vivid Imagery, Kasha

Software downloads 2008-10-10

Facebook: Revenue plan by 2011; Growth is key for now.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says he's more focused on growing the social networking site than he is in finding a way to monetize it - at least for now. In a Q&A interview with German blog Netzökonom, Zuckerberg has basically given himself and the company three years to come up...

Tags: Revenue, Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, Social Networking, Operational Accounting, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Finance, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-10-09

MobileMe

MobileMeMobileME is KillingMeI cannot give it even one star b/c it is not usable.I am not exaggerating: this is the most worthless pile of junk I've ever been asked to pay for. If you do get an iPhone, save your money and look for another solution. I...

Tags: MobileMe

Discussion threads 2008-10-09

Buy an ASUS Eee Box mini PC, get free malware!

Buy an ASUS Eee Box mini PC, get free malware!This is VERY interesting! eeePC Laptop users beware too!When I was downloading all the updates from ASUS's web site for my newly received eeePC, NOD32 stopped the Bluetooth update with the following:http://dlsvr04.asus.com/pub/ASUS/EeePC/EeePC1000H/Bluetooth_XP_080630.zip probably a variant of Win32/Genetik trojan connection terminated - quarantinedRE:...

Tags: Spyware, adware & malware, Spyware, Cyberthreats, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, ASUS, ASUS Eee Box mini-PC, Asus Eee Box, mini-PC, NOD32, Asus Eee, malware

Discussion threads 2008-10-09

Where open source will be sucked into the downdraft

Where open source will be sucked into the downdraftPure play open source is not going away ...... bad business models are.I've run a pure play open source company for seven years and expect to be around for many more. We have a unique business model called "spend less than you...

Tags: Pure-play open source, open source, downdraft, economic downturn

Discussion threads 2008-10-09

Kevin Rose: advertising, can you Digg it?

Kevin Rose: advertising, can you Digg it?diggable ads?Great article, Digg is a great site, it provides article people will find relevant and or interesting. I do question if the diggable ads will bring in more users and revenue.RE: Kevin Rose: advertising, can you Digg it?fake rolex watch ...

Tags: Digg, advertisement, Kevin Rose

Discussion threads 2008-10-09