Rupert Murdoch’s sabre rattling over Google has increased – it’s been reported that he’s in talks with Microsoft to give them the rights to index News Corp content; while banning Google from the same. (more…)

A survey by Experian has found that 80% of online coupon email campaigns scored higher transaction-to-click rates and transaction rates than the non-coupon campaigns. (more…)

According to an annual CyberSource Corp. survey, Ecommerce merchants feel they are winning the ongoing battle against online fraud. (more…)

comScore yesterday released its analysis of the U.S. search marketplace for October. There’s more joy for Google as usual and also for Bing, but Yahoo’s fortunes in the search area continue to fade. (more…)

The widespread adoption of broadband should have brought us all blistering page load times. But some designers and programmers decided to suck up that extra bandwidth with complex pages that really don’t need to be. This bit of news might have them reconsidering. (more…)

Contrary to popular belief, it seems that a lot of folks might be willing to pay for online newspaper content after all according to a recent survey – if the price and content is right of course. (more…)

comScore, Inc. released a survey report a few hours ago on the growth of Internet audiences in the Asia-Pacific region (more…)

A free service is available to merchants to blacklist card holders who issue chargebacks without good reason. (more…)

It’s interesting to see some marketers and newsletter list owners, particularly in the information product and B2B sphere, still having to resort to tactics used by spammers to try and get their email through. If something looks like spam, it will often be treated as such. (more…)

The sandbox has been taken down and the announcement has been made. Google Caffeine is headed for prime time.. soonish. Caffeine isn’t a fluffy Google app, but a major change to what is under the hood of Google search. (more…)