Affiliate Programs and Affiliate Reviews
Companies that sell “identity-theft protection” present an alluring but questionable proposition. For as much as about $100 per year, the main thing they do is set fraud alerts that force banks to call people before new lines of credit are opened in their names. The alerts can be useful — but people can set them themselves, for free.
The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette is a rarity among large U.S. newspapers — it’s selling more weekday copies than a decade ago. In Idaho, the Post Register’s circulation has remained stable, while many other print publications have lost readers to the Internet. How can this be?
Fresh off its attempt to sideswipe Apple with its “Laptop Hunters” ad campaign, Microsoft is apparently now gunning for Google with its upcoming search engine, Bing. Announcing Bing on Thursday, Microsoft promised a worldwide launch by June 3 and pointed readers to a Web site where the service would be located.
It’s something Gawker’s snarky arbiters of culture would normally find irresistible: An advertisement for a TV program in the form of a blog that’s embedded within a popular Web site and made to look just like it. It might, if the fake vampire blog paid for by HBO to promote its series “True Blood” wasn’t on Gawker itself.
Dell said Thursday its fiscal first-quarter profit fell 63 percent as the recession continued to crimp computer sales around the world. The results, coupled with a cautious outlook from the world’s top PC seller, HP, indicate that the computer market has not improved much since last year’s economic meltdown led to a holiday season that was the industry’s worst stretch in six years.
Last December, a decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued a decision that could push FOSS questions into a more litigious arena. In the matter of Jacobsen v. Katzer, the court ruled that breach of an open-source license can support a claim for copyright infringement with associated remedies.
Fidelitone Logistics works with large retailers to manage their inventories and ship consumer goods worldwide. Executive VP Mike Schoenfeld recently gave a group of executives from a venture capital firm a tour of the company’s operations. They were thinking of the small firms in their portfolios that needed the benefits of a streamlined inventory management and warehouse distribution system.
With an increasing number of individuals engaging in social networking, it is not surprising that Web sites such as Facebook, Twitter and MySpace have started to play a prominent role in litigation in the United States and Canada, at times affecting outcomes. Increasingly, information contained in Facebook profiles has been used as evidence.
Time Warner is officially releasing AOL from its parentage. A year after announcing its intention to separate from the struggling unit, Time Warner said Thursday the time had come. The company, which owns 95 percent of AOL, will buy out the 5 percent stake that Google owns for an undisclosed amount.
Yahoo’s chief executive said Wednesday that she is open to joining forces with Microsoft so both companies can better compete in Internet search, but a deal would need a specific set of terms — including “boatloads of money.” An alliance in Internet search would have to enrich Yahoo, give Yahoo access to the “right data” and bring strong technology, Carol Bartz said.
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