Estée Lauder uses social media for long-time cause

Estée Lauder’s 16-year-old “Breast cancer awareness campaign,” an autumn tradition thanks to its pink ribbons, gains a major digital component this year. The campaign will have its largest online pres­ence ever this year, including social media, display ads and special content.

Anything Trucker, a Subsidiary of Anything Brands Online, Announces Agreement With C31 Logistics as a Provider of Transportation Services

TUCSON, AZ–(Marketwire - January 22, 2009) - Anything Brands Online, Inc. (PINKSHEETS: ANYT)
announced today that its Anything Trucker Division
(www.anythingtrucker.com) has its completed a Cross-Marketing Agreement,
with C3I Logistics, LLC a Minnesota Company. C3I Logistics is also an agent
of Landstar Systems Inc. providing truckload and other transportation
services thru its mid-western facilities. Working together, with Landstar
and its [...]

Microsoft taps former Yahoo exec to lead Web business (AP)

AP - Microsoft Corp. on Thursday tapped a former Yahoo search executive to lead its online push, adding to the intrigue surrounding a possible search partnership between the two rivals.

Online Money: Fidelity expands online news focus (AP)

AP - Fidelity Investments is joining the rush to satisfy investors’ growing appetite for news about financial market turmoil.

Rising royalties send Yahoo’s Launchcast to CBS (AP)

AP - Yahoo Inc. is plugging its Internet radio service into CBS Corp.’s webcasting network in a move driven by dramatically higher fees for airing music online.

Scientists ask: Is technology rewiring our brains? (AP)

AP - What does a teenage brain on Google look like? Do all those hours spent online rewire the circuitry? Could these kids even relate better to emoticons than to real people? These sound like concerns from worried parents. But they’re coming from brain scientists.

Cyber Monday spending rises 15 percent: comScore (Reuters)

Reuters - Online retail spending rose 15 percent on the all-important Monday after Thanksgiving from a year earlier, sounding a positive note in an otherwise bleak holiday season.

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Retailers offer deals, discounts on ‘Cyber Monday’ (AP)

AP - Retailers who saw Thanksgiving holiday sales drop off as the weekend progressed stepped up online promotions on the day known as “Cyber Monday” to try to get consumers tired of the crowds at stores to keep shopping.

Online retailers ramp up deals to capture dollars (AP)

AP - Online retailers are ramping up heavy-duty deals to turn skittish shoppers into buyers during the crucial Thanksgiving weekend and “Cyber Monday” — but even so, online sales are expected to be fairly flat after years of strong growth.

Google, Yahoo still top, says Nielsen

Nielsen Online has released its October US search market share rankings. Google remains on top with 61.2% of the total number of queries, which is around 7.8 billion. Yahoo unsurprisingly remains in second with 16.9%.

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Forecaster lops 10 pct off 2009 online ad estimate (AP)

AP - A marketing research firm is dimming its Internet advertising outlook for the next four years, the latest sign of the more austere times looming for the high-tech sector.

Study Details Annual Medical Cost Increases for People With Diabetes

ALEXANDRIA, VA–(Marketwire - November 25, 2008) - People diagnosed with diabetes spend over
$4,100 more each year on medical costs than people who don’t have diabetes,
a gap that increases substantially each year following the initial
diagnosis, according to a study published online today in the journal
Diabetes Care.

In the first study to examine medical cost increases for [...]

Future Shop Sets the Facts Straight in Response to Viral Email

BURNABY, BRITISH COLUMBIA–(Marketwire - Nov. 24, 2008) -
A viral email is circulating among Canadians saying that Future Shop is closing and owned by Circuit City and that Future Shop gift cards are not valid — this is not true.
Future Shop is growing and prospering with over 137 stores to date and more stores opening [...]

Facebook wins $873M judgment against spammer (AP)

AP - Facebook has a won $873 million judgment against a Canadian man who bombarded the popular online hangout with sexually explicit “spam” messages.

Hands-off hackers: Crooks opt for surgical strikes (AP)

AP - Internet criminals have been getting more “professional” for years, trying to run their businesses like Big Business to get better and more profitable at selling stolen data online. Now the bad guys of the cyber-underworld are exhibiting other unexpected traits: remarkable patience and restraint in stalking their victims.

Citysearch releases increased functionality on Web and mobile

Online local guide Citysearch has released its new version of Citysearch.com with improved local, social and mobile aspects. The company, an operating business of IAC, is expanding its coverage from 140 local city guides to over 75,000 cities and neighborhoods nationwide.

ReachLocal Launches in Western Europe With Office Serving the United Kingdom

Global Internet Advertising Firm Uses Technology and Its Team of Internet Marketing Consultants to Help Small- to Medium-Sized Businesses Follow Consumers That Have Migrated From Offline to Online Search; Transparent Solution Allows Advertisers to Monitor Their ROI in Real Time

Online retail spending slows to a crawl in October (CNET)

CNET - Consumer spending on e-commerce sites grew just 1 percent during October compared with the same month a year ago, according to ComScore.

Law professor fires back at song-swapping lawsuits (AP)

AP - The music industry’s courtroom campaign against people who share songs online is coming under counterattack.

Online startup aims to improve patent quality (AP)

AP - A new startup company wants to have a say in the high-stakes patent disputes that loom over many industries.

WebVisible CEO Presents at Fourth Annual Piper Jaffray Global Internet Summit

Kirsten Mangers Serves on Panel Addressing the State of the Local Online Marketing Industry

Web tracker NebuAd sued over privacy claims (AP)

AP - Angry online subscribers who had their Web surfing habits tracked in detail are suing a Silicon Valley startup that created the technology and six Internet service providers that briefly used it.

Outlaw Consulting Announces Top 15 Gen Y Websites

Gen Y Trendsetters Rate Facebook, Wikipedia, YouTube, Craigslist, and MySpace Among Most Visited Online Destinations