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As an Internet marketing tactic, retargeting has never quite reached its stride. However, updated technology, changing market dynamics and new offerings by vendors -- especially Google's entrance into the space -- is changing that. Briefly, retargeting is a marketing response triggered when a consum...

As an Internet marketing tactic, retargeting has never quite reached its stride. However, updated technology, changing market dynamics and new offerings by vendors -- especially Google's entrance into the space -- is changing that. Briefly, retargeting is a marketing response triggered when a consum...

Rumors have been flying wildly since Facebook sent out a press invitation for an announcement Nov. 15 in San Francisco. At 10 a.m. on Monday, Facebook representatives -- perhaps CEO Mark Zuckerberg himself -- are expected to announce something big in conjunction with the Web 2.0 Summit. Zuckerberg i...

As I reported in this space earlier this year, a growing number of IT professionals are putting aside their apprehensions about Software as a Service and cloud computing, and investigating how they can utilize these "on-demand" solutions to address their day-to-day IT management requirements. Now, a...

Next Issue Media, a joint venture among five leading publishers, will open its digital storefront next year on Android tablets, according to an AllThingsD report. Android is a very important platform for tablets and smartphones, Next Issue Media CEO Morgan Guenther told the publication. The consorti...

Although Cisco Systems delivered a good first quarter earnings report on Wednesday afternoon, the guidance delivered by CEO John Chambers for the coming quarters sent the stock markets spinning downward on Thursday. In a conference call Wednesday, Chambers said Cisco expected revenue growth of 3 per...

According to the Small Business Administration, fewer than 30 percent of startups are still in business after 10 years. This is a pretty startling failure rate -- over 70 percent. Let's take a look at some of the causes of startup failure and what can be done to improve your chances of making your n...

We have watched Clearwire build its 4G wireless Internet service from scratch over the last few years. It has successfully won a few million customers and has looked like one of the hot new companies and technologies. But now it is suddenly struggling with the enormous investment costs and is thrott...

Google's Android operating system grabbed a strong 25.5 percent of the worldwide smartphone market, making it the No. 2 OS globally in the third quarter of 2010, according to Gartner. That's up from a mere 3.5 percent share of the market in the third quarter of 2009. The third quarter produced recor...

The Supreme Court heard arguments Tuesday in AT&T v. Concepcion -- a case that could decide whether the arbitration clauses companies routinely insert in sales contracts can ban class actions. The case stems from a suit brought by Vincent and Liza Concepcion, who signed up for cellphone service ...

IBM has let it be known that in the most recent quarter alone, it has managed to convert nearly 400 of its competitors' customers over to IBM systems through its Migration Factory, a service designed to help customers convert from other systems to IBM servers, storage and software. Of those, almost ...

Internet privacy seems to be constantly in the headlines globally, and social media communications are clearly driving most of these privacy concerns. Since law is the glue that hold societies together, all people on Earth rely on various laws, whether they drive their cars in traffic, pay taxes, es...

Amazon.com will more than double the revenue share for periodical publishers as it faces rising competition, at least in public perception, with Apple and other rivals for magazine and newspaper publications. The move comes shortly after Amazon announced that it would make magazines and newspapers a...

The Colorado Department of Revenue has relaxed a first-in-the-nation information reporting requirement for sales by Internet vendors to customers in Colorado. The new legislation, adopted earlier this year, requires etailers that have more than $100,000 in sales to Colorado customers to notify all c...

Motorola's Droid Pro, an Android-based smartphone designed for the enterprise market, will be available in Verizon Wireless stores on November 18 for $179.99 after a $100 mail-in rebate. Purchase will require a two-year customer agreement. Verizon will start taking orders for the phone on Tuesday. T...