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Cashing Out: Week of January 29th – February 4th 2012 in Online Marketing News
It’s official: Facebook’s $5B IPO filed
As anticipated, Facebook finally filed for its much-hyped IPO February 1 – one that could set the company’s valuation somewhere between $75 billion and $100 billion, the New York Times (NYT) reports.
According to
Cashing Out: Week of January 22nd – 28th 2012 in Online Marketing News
Is ACTA the new, global SOPA?
Last week will be remembered by some as the week that SOPA died, though that hardly means the issue of online piracy is going away any time soon. Mashable reported January 27…
News Brief: Pennsylvania Delays Online Tax Compliance Until September
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.
Cashing Out: Week of January 15th – 21st 2012 in Online Marketing News
Plug pulled on SOPA, PIPA postponed
Internet companies and users who opposed two bills aimed at stopping online piracy are celebrating two victories this week, with the January 20 withdrawal of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect IP Act…
Cashing Out: Week of January 8th – 14th 2012 in Online Marketing News
Google integrates Google+ into search
Google unleashed a major update to its core search engine this week – one that angered Twitter, had marketers concerned for their SEO, and finally put the importance of Google + into perspective.
January 10,…
News Brief: LinkShare Claims BLUE BOOK Top Spot for Performance Marketing
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…
Cashing Out: Week of January 1st – 7th 2012 in Online Marketing News
Among Google’s new IBM patents, “semantic social network” stands out
A January 3 article from SEO by the Sea reported that Google started off the new year with 217 new patents acquired through IBM.
Google has since…
Cashing Out: Week of December 26th – 31st 2011 in Online Marketing News
Under pressure, GoDaddy changes stance on SOPA
What a difference a few days makes.
Last week, ReveNews reported on GoDaddy’s change of stance regarding SOPA, following a warning that Cheezburger would move its domains away from GoDaddy if…
Cashing Out: Week of December 18th – 26th 2011 in Online Marketing News
SOPA battle continues over holidays
As the House Judiciary Committee adjourned for the holidays December 23, a decision had not yet been reached on the controversial Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). The proposed legislation, supported by both Republicans and Democrats,…
News Brief: The Daily Meal Adds E-Commerce to the Menu with Cooking.com
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…
