The news stormed across blogs and headlines this week: Facebook had become the first website to rack up a mind-boggling 1 trillion monthly page views.
What's the best way to let advertisers know you don't want to be tracked online?
The rise of Twitter and instant messaging has been good to bit.ly -- the URL-shortening service that has become a go-to tool for users across the web.
The privacy issues that have been hounding Facebook may be coming to a head.
In a challenge to Yahoo's display ad dominance, Google unveiled a new technology aimed at making advertising easier for marketers.
Online retailer Gilt Groupe's recent infusion of funding has wags from Wall Street to Seventh Avenue speculating about what the luxury site plans to do with the money.
Fortune: 'Net takes Manhattanupdated: Fri Jun 05 2009 10:15:00
Visitors to the basement auditorium at NYU's Stern School of Business on Wednesday could be forgiven for thinking they were hanging out on Sand Hill Road: Seven financiers and tech journalists congregated on stage to assess the merits of ten tech startup business plans. "You should be able to bake your company into a Tweet," advised Business Insider senior editor Dan Frommer, advising the entrepreneurs to focus their pitches.
Stocks were poised for a slightly lower open Thursday, but trading could be volatile as investors wait for more comments from Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, news of a possible Senate deal to provide help to homeowners facing problems with their mortgages and Friday's jobs report.
Stocks rallied Tuesday on news that the Federal Reserve, in coordination with central banks worldwide, will lend up to $200 billion to banks in an effort to loosen up tight credit markets.
Stocks surged Tuesday morning after the Federal Reserve said it would loan up to $200 billion to banks and lenders in an effort to loosen up tight credit markets.
U.S. stocks soared at the start of trading Tuesday after the Federal Reserve acted to boost liquidity for financial markets and the European Union approved the Google-DoubleClick merger.
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Gordon Graylish of Intel joins CNN to discuss how the strong demand for computers boosts quarterly profits.
Google, the world's leading Internet search company, reported strong growth in sales and profits that beat Wall Street's estimates, a further sign of Google's dominance in the lucrative online advertising market.
U.S. stock futures were slightly stronger Monday, but inflation worries could start to take a toll on investors.
As lucrative as Internet advertising can be, almost all of it is wasted. Companies are set to shell out a total of $19.9 billion for online ads this year, but just 2 percent of the Web surfers who are exposed to those ads will click on them (and even fewer will actually make a transaction).
Microsoft Corp. said Sunday the software maker was taking new steps to protect consumer privacy in the areas of Web search and online advertising and called on the Internet industry to support it.
Thursday was hardly the best day in Google's three years as a public company.
Lawmakers in Congress plan to hold hearings to air concerns about Google Inc.'s proposed acquisition of Web advertising supplier DoubleClick Inc.
Internet bellwether Google agreed to purchase Postini, a privately held provider of Web communications security, for $625 million in cash, the company announced Monday.
Europe's major consumer group BEUC fears Google Inc.'s takeover of online ad tracker DoubleClick Inc. would damage European Union privacy rights and limit consumers' choice of Web content
Microsoft announced Friday it is buying online ad agency aQuantive in a $6 billion cash deal, paying top dollar to buy into the suddenly hot sector.
Shares of Yahoo soared in pre-market trading Friday after published reports suggested that Microsoft is pushing the Internet bellwhether to enter merger negotiations.
A report that Microsoft might be interested in 24/7 Real Media sent shares of the Internet advertising firm soaring in pre-market trading Tuesday.
"We're number three! We're number three!"
Time Warner AOL Internet division will announce Tuesday production deals for five new Web programs as it tries to shore up its entertainment offerings and draw more advertising dollars.
The Dow held onto a near 100-point gain as the stock market eased slightly in early afternoon after posting strong gains straight after the open, fueled by a solid start to the earnings season and deals for Sallie Mae and DoubleClick.
CNNMoney: Deals drive the Dowupdated: Mon Apr 16 2007 11:17:00
The Dow jumped about 100 points Monday as a solid start to the earnings reporting period and deals for Sallie Mae and DoubleClick fueled a powerful rally on Wall Street.
Major deals for Sallie Mae and DoubleClick fueled a stock rally Monday as investors also digested a stronger-than-expected reading on March retail sales.
Stocks gained as investors looked at a strong reading on March retail sales, and major deals in Internet advertising and lending.
Stocks rose in the first moments of trade Monday, pushed higher by favorable economic news and a big acquisition by search leader Google.
Google has agreed to sell advertising on all of the stations owned by Clear Channel Communications beginning at the end of June, according to a published report.
Search engine leader Google is buying privately held DoubleClick, a top digital marketing services firm, for $3.1 billion in cash, the companies said Friday afternoon.
Google is said to be a contender to acquire Web advertising placement firm DoubleClick after Microsoft was reported to be considering buying the company, according to a news report Monday.
Investors may be again tiring of Internet stocks.
FSB: Happy Mailupdated: Tue Feb 01 2005 00:01:00
When Ray Rytel decided at the last minute to hold a private sale at the Textile Studio, his fabric and design store based in Cincinnati, he had no time to notify the subscribers on his direct-mail ...
Technology stocks finished mostly lower Friday after Microsoft Corp. issued a weaker-than-expected earnings outlook and Amazon.com Inc. posted lower quarterly profits than anticipated.
Business 2.0: Hits & Missesupdated: Tue Jun 01 2004 00:01:00
[HIT] Having it their way. With 20-something men tuning out prime-time TV, how can advertisers reach them? Burger King has a new recipe: late-night TV and the Web. BK's new campaign, by hot Miami a...
Talk about a great way to kick off a meeting.
Despite a midday bounce, technology stocks continued to lag behind other sectors, with IBM weighing down the Dow Jones Industrial Average Friday.
It's hard to believe that online advertising generated more revenue in the fourth quarter of 2003 than in any other quarter since 1996, when the Internet Advertising Bureau and PricewaterhouseCoopers started tracking this statistic.
Young-Bean Song, head of analytics at Seattle-based software firm Atlas DMT, might have the toughest job in online advertising. No, he doesn't sell the ads. Instead, he's trying to figure out who's...
If the banner ad isn't dead, it certainly has a hacking cough: According to a recent DoubleClick survey, the clickthrough rate for a simple GIF banner is a practically pointless 0.27 percent--and s...
When Allison Thacker joined R.S. Investments in June 2000 to cover Internet stocks, the Nasdaq was trading above 4200 and Amazon was worth $22 billion.
MAVERICK Matt Blumberg, 31, CEO of Return Path, New York
Fortune: 4 The End of Privacyupdated: Mon Mar 19 2001 00:01:00
A man in Memphis secretly installed a spyware program called Spector on his 13-year-old stepdaughter's personal computer last fall and discovered, by reading her private e-mail, that she was having...
Fish gotta swim, birds gotta fly--and Wall Street can't let a day go by without spewing out a fresh supply of nonsense. But smart investors know that there's usually a tiny grain of wisdom hiding i...
There are three things on FORTUNE's mind at the end of January: Is Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon really as good as everyone says? Why did Ricky Martin agree to sing at W.'s inauguration? And why h...
Is advertising dead? It sure seems that way, at least in my own life as a consumer. I rarely click on a Web page banner, I assiduously avoid ads in consumer magazines, I use my TiVo to fast-forward...
Richard M. Smith wants to make sure the phrase "Internet privacy" doesn't wind up an oxymoron. As chief of technology for the newly created Privacy Foundation, a Denver-based nonprofit group, Smith...
A Zen riddle for you: If a stock index holds steady, does that mean the stocks within it didn't move? Not exactly. Although the e-50 was flat for a second straight two-week cycle, down just 0.4%, t...
When the dot-coms crashed in April, we handled it; when Wall Street fretted over rapid growth this summer, we managed to deal. In fact, our economy and stock market looked as if they could survive ...
Lawrence Rakers figured it was a long shot when he sent a resume to Fidelity Investments back in 1993. He was 29 and certainly smart (schooled in metallurgic engineering, Rakers was working on top-...
It sounds like something you'd try on a bum tobacco crop rather than on your portfolio. But "loss harvesting" could well be the one thing your investment portfolio needs right now. Money managers u...
If you're sad, then it's time you spoke up too. --Fastball
Not so long ago, if you wanted to invest in computer storage you were limited--unfortunately--to disk-drive stocks. Maybe that's why the sector was a dead end for so long. Companies like Quantum, W...
Fortune: Resonateupdated: Mon Jun 26 2000 00:01:00
Internet management software HQ: Sunnyvale, Calif. Founded: 1995 Employees: 220 Sales: $9.9 million Stock: Privately held Address: www.resonate.com
Almost everywhere you go on the Web, you are tracked by tiny software programs called cookies. If you get quotes on your favorite stocks from AltaVista's Website, the ticker symbols you enter are s...
Online-Advertising company DoubleClick ignited a fire storm of controversy recently with its plan (aborted--for now) to sell targeted consumer information by matching up individuals' Web-surfing ha...
With more and more confidential information whipping around the Web, it's not surprising that privacy is becoming an increasingly public issue. In March, after an outcry from privacy advocates, the...
Fortune: The FORTUNE Indexesupdated: Mon Mar 20 2000 00:01:00
Our first update of FORTUNE's two new indexes--and there's already so much to talk about. The FORTUNE 500 has mirrored the broader market's bumpiness, slipping 7% this year, compared with the deepe...
The most unprofitable venture for almost any investor in the past four or five years has been shorting, or betting against, Internet stocks. Doing so looked like the ultimate lay-up: Valuations app...
In 1995, Kevin O'Connor, then 34, decided he wanted to start an Internet company. The problem was, he didn't know what kind. O'Connor spent eight months holed up in his basement with his friend Dwi...
Dealmaking is not what it used to be. Thanks to the Internet, the world is turning faster, and doing deals is no longer a marathon but a frantic sprint. For proof, look no further than Internet inc...
It's amazing how a few selective facts can make investing for retirement seem like a no-brainer. Let's see...the stock market has more than doubled in value over the past three years, tripled over ...
Internet time--no exaggeration, this stuff moves so fast, you gotta figure out a way to clone yourself. We're doing a deal a minute--raising money, signing affiliates, negotiating content, hiring p...
The trouble with buying individual Internet stocks is that you may get a bargain on the next Yahoo! but you can just as easily stumble upon the next K-Tel. That's what makes mutual funds that speci...
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