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With a third of all lead generation budget dollars allocated to outsourced B2B teleservices providers, how do Best-in-Class organizations most effectively compensate their external vendors? Aberdeen survey respondents provide rich detail regarding their preferences for how they prefer to model the f...

Many e-commerce companies have boosted their fortunes by expanding their markets beyond the United States. Avail Intelligence is hoping to help such merchants boost profits and sales by doing the reverse. The move comes as e-commerce growth begins to slow, a function of the sheer size of the market ...

Microsoft has a new weapon in its advertising arsenal. The software giant has acquired Navic Networks, an interactive television ad developer that targets specific audiences with its service. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Navic uses audience measuring data to determine which broadcast commer...

In a reminder that investors remain hungry for chances to back social networking firms, LinkedIn announced it has closed a fourth round of funding worth $53 million. The investment places a valuation of "slightly over $1 billion" on the firm, which bills itself as a professional and business-focused...

Tens of thousands of fledgling job seekers have spent a great deal of time, effort and money devising video resumes, a variation on the decades-old task of letting a potential employer know a little something about you. However, while the new approach has garnered some sizzle, it lacks substance. "V...

A federal judge has ruled that an administrative office within the Executive Office of the President is not subject to the 41-year-old Freedom of Information Act. The decision is the latest hurdle blocking a many-fronted effort to determine how an alleged 10 million White House e-mails apparently di...

The online security space has been no different than any number of other software categories in its adoption of Software as a Service. However, until recently most of the offerings in this space have been targeted to e-mail protection. That is beginning to change as more and more vendors begin to ro...

Contextual targeting is widely used in both the offline and online advertising worlds. However, the wild-card nature of behavioral targeting could revolutionize how marketers interact with their target audience in an online world. Behavioral targeting is based on a proven assumption that the Web pag...

The world's largest online auction house, eBay, has announced plans to let third-party developers integrate applications directly onto eBay by giving their applications more direct access to the site's 700,000 professional sellers. The company revealed the details at its seventh annual eBay Develope...

Seeking to protect its own business model, The Associated Press is hoping to clarify what constitutes fair use of the content is publishes online, with plans to lay out guidelines for bloggers on how much content they can quote. The AP, which bills itself as the world's largest and oldest news-gathe...

The long-awaited merger of XM Satellite Radio and Sirius Satellite Radio may be on the cusp of winning approval, with the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission now saying he is on board with letting it go forward. FCC Chairman Kevin Martin will propose allowing the merger to proceed, but...

Because outsourcing both creates and destroys, the multi-billion dollar global outsourcing industry has given rise to the field of outsourcing relationship management and a $500 million market for ORM software tools from niche players like Janeeva, Kelsar, Digital Fuel, Oblicore and RealTime Bookkee...

Console gaming sales continued at their record-breaking pace in May, according to sales figures released by the NPD Group Friday. The video game industry raked in a total of $1.12 billion on sales of accessories, hardware and software for the month. That's a 37 percent increase over the same period ...

Sky-high cancellation fees for cell phone contracts could soon be a thing of the past, but getting there is proving to be difficult. The Federal Communications Commission has put forward a plan to regulate carriers' ability to charge you for ending your agreement early -- but not everyone in the ind...

Talks have officially broken down between Yahoo and Microsoft over a potential merger. Instead, Yahoo has struck a partnership to have Google handle some of its search advertising sales. The two firms met on June 8 at a private airport in Silicon Valley, and Microsoft representatives made it clear t...