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- Direct Revenue plotted to hijack your computer
- Fascinating article here in BusinessWeek Online with never before published details about Direct Revenue's inner workings and the people involved. There are a lot of juicy tidbits, including how the Dark Arts department crafted software "torpedoes" to kill competitors', other adware vendors, software. Then CEO Joshua Abrams is quoted as...
- Tags: Direct-Revenue, Direct, Direct Revenue
- Blog posts 2006-07-06
- Eliot Spitzer's office files against Scumware company
- As Suzi Turner and Greg Keizer have blogged, Eliot Spitzer's office has file an "affirmation" and a "petition" against the owners and executives of Direct Revenue. Take a moment to read the 75 and 26 page documents and you will be sickened and entertained at the depths to...
- Tags: Ebola, Direct-Revenue, Direct, Direct Revenue
- Blog posts 2006-04-04
- Top 10 tricks causing spyware epidemic
- Spyware tricks have become increasingly devious, making spyware and adware stick to machines longer, more difficult to remove and sometimes impossible to see with ordinary methods. In the spyware tricks series I wrote about seeing installations with multiple resuscitators, increasing numbers of randomly named files, even randomly named folders. Internet...
- Tags: spyware, Direct-Revenue
- Blog posts 2005-12-20
- April Fool joke on Halloween?
- When I read this, I thought it must be a joke. Surely Mr. Maheu can't be serious. From MediaPost,Direct Revenue challenges anti-spyware programs. [...] last week, DirectRevenue CEO Jean-Philippe Maheu indicated to OnlineMediaDaily that the company is prepared to go on the offensive, and raised the possibility that the...
- Tags: Jean-Philippe Maheu, Direct-Revenue, Direct, Direct Revenue
- Blog posts 2005-10-31
- Direct Revenue changing courses?
- According to Direct Revenue's new CEO, Jean Philippe Maheu, the company is ending the use of third party affiliates to distribute their software. From the press release:NEW YORK--BUSINESS WIRE--Sept. 27, 2005--Direct Revenue, a leading provider of desktop advertising and behavioral marketing services, announces that it has ended the use of...
- Tags: Direct-Revenue, Direct, Direct Revenue
- Blog posts 2005-09-28
- Direct Revenue losing customers due to lawsuit
- I obtained court documents today of Direct Revenue's motion for a protective order filed on September 8. In short, Direct Revenue's attorneys are asking for an order prohibiting the plaintiff from serving any additional subpoenas on their customers. Plaintiff Stephen Sotelo has issued a number of subpoenas to...
- Tags: Direct-Revenue, Direct, Direct Revenue
- Blog posts 2005-09-14
- Analysis of ruling against Direct Revenue
- Eric Goldman, Assistant Professor of Law at Marquette University Law School, has blogged a fascinating and thoughtful analysis of the decision in the class action suit against Direct Revenue announced yesterday.Downloading Software onto Home Computer May Be Trespass to Chattels--Sotelo v. DirectRevenueEric's comments about notice and disclosure are particularly interesting...
- Tags: Spyware, Spyware, adware & malware, SECURITY, adware company, adware, Direct Revenue, analysis
- Blog posts 2005-09-01
- Judge rules in class action against Direct Revenue
- I've been following the lawsuit filed against Direct Revenue in April. (The PDF document of the complaint can be seen here.) Excerpt: "A class action lawsuit claims that the Defendants are involved in installing “spyware” on millions of computers without the computer owners’ consent, utilizing it to track...
- Tags: computer, Direct-Revenue, Direct Revenue
- Blog posts 2005-08-31
- Spam bots, keyloggers, porn, adware, Direct Revenue, 180solutions
- What do they have in common? While doing spyware research yesterday, I was hit with a massive download of malware through an exploit and the payload included all of the above. I blogged in detail at Spyware Warrior about the experience, including a video and logs to document...
- Tags: adware, Direct-Revenue, spyware, Direct, Direct Revenue
- Blog posts 2005-08-29
- Direct Revenue: is the gig up?
- ClickZ News Blog reports that Direct Revenue and subsidiary Soho Digital have laid off 40 employees. ClickZ is asking is this the end of the age of adware? Are the layoff perhaps related to the "torrent of negative PR"? Yes, indeed, there has been plenty of negative...
- Tags: Aurora, Direct-Revenue, Direct, Direct Revenue
- Blog posts 2005-08-26
- Direct Revenue changing tactics?
- According to Newsweek's interview with Direct Revenue's new CEO, Jean-Philippe Maheu, the company is still working hard to reform. Direct Revenue has been much maligned and referred to as the scourge of the internet. Is their reputation deserved? Maheu admits there have been problems. He...
- Tags: Jean-Philippe Maheu, Direct-Revenue, Direct, Direct Revenue
- Blog posts 2005-08-18
Additional Resources
- 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
- Forrester: Credit crunch may freeze tech services projects
- Forrester Research in a report is confirming that the credit crunch is beginning to hit technology services firms. The extent of the damage is unclear, but IBM's lower-than-expected third quarter revenue its earnings are stronger than expected may indicate something worse is afoot. Forrester's...
- Tags: Service Provider, IBM Corp., Forrester Research Inc., Business Services, Financial Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Economy-pinched semiconductor industry: How to ride the storm
- The credit crisis and overall economic downturn is starting to hit the semiconductor industry, which saw 5.5 percent sales growth in August. Research firm iSuppli has cut its 2008 sales growth forecast for the semiconductor industry from 4 percent to 3.5 percent and potentially even more if economic conditions continue...
- Tags: iSuppli Corp., Semiconductor Industry, Lidlow, Semiconductors, Hardware, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-10-09
- Laptops with mobile WiMax now available
- The first laptops with built-in mobile WiMax wireless broadband are now available in the U.S. Sprint, Intel and the computer companies announced the new WiMax configurations at an event in Baltimore just a few days after Sprint launched its Xohm service there. All of these laptops use...
- Tags: Mobile, Sprint Xohm, Laptop Computer, WiMAX, Wi-Fi, Wireless, 3G, Chipsets, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, John Morris
- Blog posts 2008-10-09
- Kevin Rose: advertising, can you Digg it?
- Digg faces two big challenges going forward. How to expand its user-base and therefore content beyond its geeky roots, and in turn, how to increase ad revenue. Addressing the latter, co-founder Kevin Rose says the social news site is exploring "Diggable ads". by Steve O'Hear
- Tags: Digg, Advertisement, Steve O\'Hear
- Blog posts 2008-10-09
- Entellium executives arrested by FBI for making up revenue figures
- Software as a service company Entellium's future is uncertain after its CEO and CFO were arrested by the FBI for inflating sales to land venture capital. The U.S. Department of Justice said in a press release that CEO Paul Thomas Johnson, 40, and Parrish Jones, 39, were...
- Tags: Revenue, Entellium, FBI, Revenue Figure, Federal Government, Operational Accounting, Corporate Governance, Government, Finance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-09
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