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Zango's Latest Trick: Pitching Fake Batman Mmorpg To Get People To ... - Tech Dirt
we've talked about zango's continued claims that it's a changed company from the one that paid huge fines for tricking people into downloading its intrusive adware, but somethings never really seem to change. an anonymous reader points us to an ad ...
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Industry Moves: Video Ad Net Scanscout Names About Founder Bill Day Ceo
bill day, the founder and former ceo of about.com, has been tapped to head video ad net scanscout, adweek reported. day moves over from local online media and ad firm marchex, who hired him in aug. 2007 to lead its consumer-facing media business as chief media officer. before that, day was ceo of the adware company formerly known as whenu (now memedia).
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Industry Moves: Video Ad Net Scanscout Names About Co-founder Bill Day Ceo
bill day, the co-founder and former ceo of about.com, has been tapped to head video ad net scanscout, adweek reported. day moves over from local online media and ad firm marchex, who hired him in aug. 2007 to lead its consumer-facing media business as chief media officer.
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Holy Fakes, Batman! - Webpronews
maybe it’s time to give stiffer penalties than fines to online deceivers—sounds like companies like zango just consider them a cost of doing business. the company’s most recent attempt to put adware on unsuspecting kids’ computers comes in ...
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Like A Rolling Stone, Bill Day Moves To Scanscout - Clickz
you won't find any moss growing on bill day, a digital media veteran who hasn't recently stayed in one place long enough for that to happen. only 13 months after being named chief media officer of local media and ad firm marchex, day has accepted a ...
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Holy Fakes, Batman!
maybe it’s time to give stiffer penalties than fines to online deceivers—sounds like companies like zango just consider them a cost of doing business. the company’s most recent attempt to put adware on unsuspecting kids’ computers comes in the form of an online batman game. read more
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Scanscout Taps New Ceo
new york video ad network scanscout has tapped about founder bill day as its new chief executive.
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The Techdirt Insight Community - Tech Dirt
there are plenty of news stories that seem to blame some form of technology for actions of individuals. the latest, as pointed out by reader rose m. welch, is an article that seems to be blaming mobile phones for bad parenting . apparently, child ...
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Activex Controls - Download.com
these controls link to any object--traditionally dynamic content such as tables and buttons that react to mouse clicks--embedded within a web page. although activex controls help web pages spring to life, malicious programmers can easily use them as ...
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A Smart List Of Free Desktop Software
downloading free software is one of the great uses of the internet. the web is like one vast smorgasbord of free software – just fill up your plate with tasty downloads.
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Scanscout Taps New Ceo
day takes over from waikit lau, scanscout's cofounder, who has served as interim ceo of the company following the departure of ceo doug macfarland in december
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Malware Lurks Behind Obama Sex Video Spam - Wired
those with a blending of political and prurient interests might be inclined to open a spam e-mail from obamasex@obama.com that blares "barack obama sex story with girl" in the subject line. researchers, however, cautioned tuesday that it's not ok to ...
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Senate Proposal Toughens Net Neutrality - Internetnews.com
reporter's notebook: while a house subcommittee attempts to pass a telecom reform bill today that the telephone and cable companies wholeheartedly endorse, u.s. senators byron dorgan (d-n.d.) and olympia snowe (r-maine) are floating their own ...
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Premium Domain Names Including Love.me And Movierentals.com To Be Part Of Live, Open Domain Name Auction
buying descriptive and easy to remember domains offers businesses a faster way to generate traffic and build brand awareness
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google this week said it would anonymise user data received through search requests entered in its search engine and chrome browser. viacom wants to know which videos youtube employees have watched and uploaded to the site, and google is refusing to provide that information.
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Yahoo Funding Spyware? - Internetnews.com
"we know people pay very high pay-per-click fees when they think they're getting traffic from yahoo, because advertisers think yahoo users are more valuable," edelman told internetnews.com . "whatever their value actually is, advertisers who are ...
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The 25 Worst Web Sites - Pc World
recommends this seattle-based site offered to walk your dog, pick up your dry cleaning, and do all other manner of scut jobs for a fee. (isn't that what kids and younger siblings are for?) the dot com contracted with local service providers for the ...
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The Daily Download - Download.com
for right now, the future of opera--the browsing alternative to the browsing alternative--doesn't look a whole lot different from the present. keeping in mind that this isn't a stable release, opera 9.60 beta 1 for windows and mac looks to add a few ...
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