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Advertisers sunk nearly US$3 billion into online marketing campaigns in second quarter, with spending on Web advertising jumping 26 percent over the same period last year, according to a new report. The Interactive Advertising Bureau and PricewaterhouseCoopers said Internet advertising revenues for ...

Saying a consumer that is aware of online threats is essential to a strong U.S. economy, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has launched its most ambitious effort yet to educate Americans on the dangers lurking on the Web. The FTC joined today with cybersecurity experts in government and the private...

Worldwide spending on research and development will reach US$1 trillion in 2006, according to a survey released yesterday by Battelle and "R&D Magazine." The survey, which Battelle, of Columbus, Ohio, has been conducting annually for more than 40 years, showed that much of the growth in R&D ...

Worldwide spending on research and development will reach US$1 trillion in 2006, according to a survey released yesterday by Battelle and "R&D Magazine." The survey, which Battelle, of Columbus, Ohio, has been conducting annually for more than 40 years, showed that much of the growth in R&D ...

Worldwide spending on research and development will reach US$1 trillion in 2006, according to a survey released yesterday by Battelle and "R&D Magazine." The survey, which Battelle, of Columbus, Ohio, has been conducting annually for more than 40 years, showed that much of the growth in R&D ...

Microsoft is launching an effort to add hundreds of new employees at existing facilities in India, a move that could more than double its head-count there. Reports from Indian media say Microsoft is ramping up hiring at the India Development Center (IDC) in Hyderabad and the Global Delivery Center ...

China announced new rules for Internet information within its borders this weekend, requiring any Chinese publisher of online news to have at least five professional news editors with three or more years of traditional media experience and US$1.2 million or more in registered capital, effectively li...

Bidding to enhance its ability to compete with Google and Yahoo in the revenue-generating part of the search marketplace, Microsoft unveiled a paid-search service of its own, one that seeks to take targeting of ads to a new level. Microsoft's MSN formally launched the service, known as adCenter, in ...

This weekend's mass service outage, though troubling, is being overshadowed by the Government of Pakistan's pursuit of permanent restrictions on Internet use in order to raise revenue for the government-owned telephone company there. Consumers in Pakistan were reportedly hit hard by the recent outag...

The FBI and other federal law enforcement agencies are investigating allegations of fraud by small charities -- or organizations posing as such charities -- that arose in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Online bill payment service PayPal, stepping up its security in response to the concerns over onli...

The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) and the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPA), which represents music labels worldwide, have begun offering up Digital File Check, a software program that can block or remove file-sharing programs from a user's computer and dele...

Film and television giant Viacom is said to be close to announcing a deal to buy video-on-demand site iFilm, a move that would give it an entirely new distribution channel for its deep well of content. Viacom, which owns MTV, CBS and Nickelodeon, among other TV properties, reportedly will pay about ...

Fewer of the remaining Americans not hooked up to the Internet are getting online, and fewer existing dial-up users are spending enough time on the Web to want to move up to broadband access, reports the Pew Internet Project in its latest study on U.S. broadband growth. Analysts attribute the slowdo...

In a move meant to help enterprises search existing data deep in legacy systems, Google has launched a partner program that will enable Google enterprise search to be integrated into existing data management and storage programs. Google today launched Google Enterprise Professional, a bid to reach o...

In the never-ending quest to differentiate themselves from competitors, online retailers often turn to content to set themselves apart and enhance the quality of their Web contact with customers and would-be customers. The need to automate the distribution of content has given rise to a fast-growing...