Posts by ReveNews Staff

News Brief: Pennsylvania Delays Online Tax Compliance Until September

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Pennsylvania’s Secretary of Revenue Dan Meuser issued an extension today for online businesses with a physical presence in the state to become compliant with licensing and sales tax collection. As we reported in December, the state originally requested compliance by February 1, 2012, but Meuser’s announcement indicated that businesses will now have until September 1, 2012.

News Brief: LinkShare Claims BLUE BOOK Top Spot for Performance Marketing

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After analyzing over 100,000 responses and considering 500 networks, the mThink BLUE BOOK granted the top spot in its affiliate network category to industry-leader LinkShare. This year, mThink did things a little differently to improve the quality…

News Brief: The Daily Meal Adds E-Commerce to the Menu with Cooking.com

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Computers in the kitchen aren’t a new idea, and now digital cooks have a new resource to turn to. The Daily Meal, a “mega food site,” recently announced that it’s joined forces with Cooking.com to…

Pennsylvania Clarity Adds Wrinkle to Online Sales Tax

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Unlike other states that passed big, contentious sales tax bills targeting online retailers, Pennsylvania took a more subtle but no-less misguided route. On Thursday, Secretary of Revenue Dan Meuser announced that certain online retailers will have until…

Book Giveaway Winners Announced

Congratulations to Gary and Jensue! They are the winners of our book giveaway of Brian Solis’s The End of Business As Usual. We’ll contact the winners to get your shipping information. Thanks to everyone for participating and we’ll do another…

News Brief – Skimlinks Secures $4.5 Million in Funding

Skimlinks continues rolling along with its announcement that they’ve secured $4.5 million in Series B funding. Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments (BDMI) led the round. In addition, new investors Venrex Investment Management and 500startups joined existing investors, Sussex…

News Brief: GoldenCAN & buy.at Data Integration Creates Opportunities for Affiliates

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Less can be more, and marketers are always looking for ways to simplify their business processes. The November 8 announcement of a new GoldenCAN data feed integration for buy.at, the largest affiliate marketing network in the…

News Brief: Kate Gosselin Set To Make A Splash in Affiliate Marketing

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Today CouponCabin.com, winner of multiple affiliate industry awards,  announced the addition of a new contributing blogger: Kate Gosselin. Lately of TLC’s reality show Kate Plus 8, Gosselin will blog weekly and provide shopping tips, top coupons, and money-saving advice. At…

News Brief: Affiliate Nexus Tax and Illinois Unemployment Figures

The US Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics released a chart of unemployment figures for Illinois from January 2010 to July 2011.  The chart shows a sharp decline in employment. The affiliate industry has grabbed those figures and highlighted…

News Brief: Rakuten Acquires UK’s Play.com for £39 Million

Rakuten, the Internet service company announced September 21  that it has bought Play.com a UK retailer for £39 million.

Play is one of the UK’s largest retailers, selling a wide range of goods from music and books…