Marchex Hires Bill Day, Buys Pay-per-call Tech
Local media and ad firm Marchex announced it will acquire pay-per-call ad technology platform VoiceStar for $20 million, plus $8 million in further investment in 2008 in products and infrastructure....
Blockbuster Acquires Movielink Download Service
Blockbuster Inc. has acquired Movielink, a movie download service, for an undisclosed sum. ...
Live from ETail: Otto High on Rich Media
Quick, what's the least effective selling channel in terms of presentation? Hint: It's not catalogs or retail. No, it's online, where products are lined up the same way on almost every Web site. ...
Live from ETail: What's Ahead for EBay
Ebay is testing different home pages for different buyer segments and shopper personas, according to vice president, buying experience, Jamie Iannone. ...
Live from ETail: Zappos CEO Shares Top 10 List
Zappos' Tony Hsieh detailed the merchant's top 10 lessons learned in e-commerce during his session at the ETail conference. ...
Live from ETail: Online Visibility and Vampires
In his session at the ETail conference titled "Exploring the Power of Collective Decision-making and the New Patterns of Adoption and Word of Mouth That Are Flourishing Online," Johnson discussed the strength of social group formation thanks to the collective power of the Internet world....
Apollo Group Acquires Aptimus
Apollo Group Inc., a provider of educational services, has acquired Aptimus Inc., an online advertising network, for about $48 million....
Fright Catalog Revamps Search
We’re coming into the height of the crazy season for Fright Catalog, a multichannel retailer of gross-out garb and creepy costumes. The Worcester, MA-based costume house bills itself as the “Halloween Superstore”, and a trip to their Web site—or a look at their catalog—is a nightmarish shopping spree for psychotics. ...
Extreme Site Search Makeover
If anyone knows remodeling, it’s a construction equipment site. So it’s not surprising that when NorthernTool.com decided to make substantial alterations in their Web presence, they knew enough to reach for the proper tools: automated data feeds and on-site search optimization....
Live From eTail 2007: Manage Culture and all Else Follows, Says Zappos CEO
The most important thing company executives can do to ensure their firms' success is make sure everyone fits its business philosophy, according to Tony Hsieh, CEO, Zappos.com....
David Kang to Coordinate Online Subscription Services at Rodale
Rodale Inc., the health and wellness information company, has named David Kang senior vice president and general manager of online subscription services....
eROI’s Novel Job Postings: To Apply, Applicants Must Out Themselves
Online marketing services provider eROI last week posted a novel entry for two job openings on its blog. The jobs sounded cool. eROI sounds like a cool place to work. And its home city of Portland, OR sounds like a cool place to live. However, the application process was very not cool. Would-be applicants were required to comment on the blog post. ...
Accoona Files for Initial Public Offering
Internet seller and search engine Accoona announced Friday it hopes to raise up to $81 million in capital through an initial public offering....
Imre Acquires MDV Communications
Imre Communications has acquired MDV Communications, an online marketing firm. ...
Catalogs Drive Online Sales: USPS Survey
Direct mail recipients were nearly twice as likely to purchase from a retail Web site as those who received only an Internet communication, according to a new survey by the U.S. Postal Service....
ICrossing Acquires Proxicom
ICrossing Inc. has acquired Web development agency Proxicom Inc. for an undisclosed sum. ...
Web Site Markets Sheets to Students
When Peggy Allen and Ronda Pierson were sending their children off to college a couple of years ago, they were appalled at the low quality and wrongly sized sheets available for dormitory beds. This led the pair, both former executives at Lifetime Television, to found an online operation dedicated to this supplying this niche market. ...
Sending Out an RSS
With RSS (Really Simple Syndication), readers can filter content directly to their desktops. Direct recently talked about how DMers can benefit from using RSS feeds with Rok Hrastnik, international Internet director of Ljubljana, Slovenia-based Studio Moderna Group, which operates in the United States and 19 Central and Eastern European markets....
Meet and Green-t
Considering all the wasted paper and materials generated by many conferences, it was inspiring to hear about last month's BlogPhiladelphia event, an “unconference” that went out of its way to be as “green” as possible....
Travelzoo Ups Search ROI
Internet media company Travelzoo relies on persuading people to give in to that spur-of-the-moment travel impulse. In fact, Erik Qualman, head of North...
Exciting and New
Click aboard Carnival Cruise Lines is expecting you. The Miami-based cruise ship operator has launched FunShipIsland.com, a site that allows potential...
Bridging the Gap
As CEO Heath Clarke explains it, Local.com got into business to serve a need that wasn't being filled by either the Internet Yellow Pages providers or traditional search engines....
Let's Get Together
If you want to make friends, you have to be social. The same theory applies if you want to court customers, says Valerie Fox, vice president of social networking site Gather.com....
Dolphin Blue Targets Small Firms and Government
In the past two and a half years, business has picked up for Dolphin Blue, which Kemper attributes in part to the efforts of former vice president Al Gore and a subsequent growing public awareness of environmental matters....
PC Mall's Fortunes Up, Future Expectations Bright
PC Mall generated $263 million during its second quarter, up from $234.1 million in second quarter 2006. The company's net income rose from $395,000 to $3 million during the same period. The quarter ended June 30. ...
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