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Monday - May 12, 2008
eBay has changed the payment policy for its Australian site to require all transactions to be completed using its PayPal payment platform, a move that has outraged users Down Under and one that reportedly could lead to more changes around the world. eBay announced last month that it would make the change to PayPal-only listings, with the switch being phased in over time. All auctions listed after May 21 must offer PayPal as a payment option, and as of June 17, all sales must be completed with either PayPal, an in-person payment option or with a Visa or MasterCard transaction processed by PayPal.
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Monday - May 12, 2008
Sprint Nextel posted results Monday that show that it continues to struggle amid high rates of customer defection and financial losses of more than a half billion dollars. Released just days after Sprint announced an ambitious plan to partner with Clearwire on a national WiMax wireless broadband company, the company's first-quarter results show that Sprint's net loss more than doubled to $505 million.
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Monday - May 12, 2008
Bronto is no dinosaur. Founded by former Red Hat executives and launched in 2002, the e-mail marketing software provider has certainly seen its industry and marketplace evolve and change dramatically around it. While questions are often raised about whether e-mail can remain an effective marketing channel given the flood of spam invading consumers' in-boxes and, spending on the channel continues to grow.
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Monday - May 12, 2008
Powerset, a new Internet search engine company, has launched a proof-of-concept salvo in the search engine war -- a natural language processing engine that attempts to understand the meaning behind a search phrase and the text it's searching against. Instead of returning a long list of results that simply contain the key words a user enters, Powerset attempts to unlock the meaning encoded in ordinary human language.
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Monday - May 12, 2008
It seems as though everyone wants to be both social and portable these days. Google, Yahoo, Facebook and MySpace all have recently trumpeted their latest efforts at openness. Are they really the same? In some cases -- Yahoo and Google, primarily -- the OpenSocial framework is providing a set of standards to ensure interoperability among the applications themselves.
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Monday - May 12, 2008
I'm often fascinated by mergers, or I should say I'm fascinated by how often they are attempted and how rarely they succeed. While it may appear that smaller mergers are more successful than larger ones, the reality is smaller merger failures are vastly easier to cover up. Very few mergers actually deliver the benefits that were promised by their advocates.
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Monday - May 12, 2008
Long before social networking sites such as MySpace and Facebook set up shop online, there was a social element to playing video games. Gamers have always congregated together, extolling or deriding the merits of one game over another, participating in tournaments and broadcasting their gaming exploits and accomplishments.
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Monday - May 12, 2008
XM Satellite Radio Holdings said Monday that its first-quarter loss widened by nearly 6 percent despite a 17 percent jump in revenue. XM, which is seeking regulatory approval for an acquisition by rival Sirius, said it lost $129.3 million, or 42 cents per share, compared with $122.4 million, or 40 cents per share, a year ago. Analysts expected the loss to narrow to 39 cents per share, according to Thomson Financial.
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Monday - May 12, 2008
Cablevision Systems is buying the Long Island, New York-based newspaper Newsday from Tribune in a deal valued at $650 million, the companies announced Monday. Cablevision beat out media mogul Rupert Murdoch, CEO of News Corp., who withdrew his own $580 million bid on Saturday. New York Daily News owner Mortimer Zuckerman had also bid $580 million.
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Monday - May 12, 2008
Apple has agreed to settle a pair of class action lawsuits in Canada alleging it misled customers about the staying power of their iPods, the latest courtroom truce over the dwindling battery life of early generations of the device. The Cupertino, Calif.-based company is offering credits for its online store of about $44.75, according to a court document.
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Sunday - May 11, 2008
In a challenging economy, you must find new ways to make marketing work more effectively, get more out of marketing investments, and measure and account for marketing decisions. In short, you must make changes. Doing the same things in an uncertain economic environment and expecting the same results is, at worst, a definition of marketing insanity.
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