2011
Company Settles with FTC for $250,000 Over Misleading Online
A company that sells guitar-lesson DVDs online has settled with the Federal Trade Commission for a whopping $250,000 over charges that the company “deceptively advertised its products through online affiliate marketers who falsely posed as ordinary consumers or independent reviewers”. The company supposedly schemed to have fake positive reviews po
2010
SortPrice Store Facebook Application Tops 1000 Retailers
Proving yet again a real commitment to opening new avenues of success for online merchants everywhere, comparison shopping engine SortPrice.com has now built virtual stores for more than 1,000 retailers through its Merchant Store application on Facebook.
CheapTweet Upgrades Its Social Deals Search Engine
CheapTweet.com, a major Twitter-based social deals search engine site, has launched CheapTweet Version 2, in celebration of indexing over 5 million deals online to offer users an better social shopping experience.
Monetize More Users with Offerpal Tasks
Today Offerpal unveiled its latest product to help social game developers monetize their users - Offerpal Tasks. Built by leveraging Amazon Mechanical Turk, Offerpal Tasks allows gamers and social networkers to earn virtual currency for free by completing what Mechanical Turk calls Human Intelligence Tasks, small online tasks.
2008
Google 1Q profit climbs 30 pct
Google Inc. tweaked its online advertising formula and expanded its business outside the United States to produce a first-quarter profit that surpassed analysts predictions, alleviating some of the economic worries battering its stock this year.
Vizion Interactive Adds Search Engine Marketing and Social Media Expert Bill Hartzer to Team
Vizion Interactive, a leading Interactive marketing firm based in Irving, Texas, has added online marketing expert Bill Hartzer to its team.
Comverse Self-Service Solutions Available to StarHub Subscribers
Comverse has told OSS News Review that StarHub has deployed Comverse Self-Service Solutions to provide its consumer customers with a single, converged online view for managing their StarHub accounts online.
Secondary Domain name Sales Total GBP37 Million in 2007
Sedo, the leading online market place for buying and selling Internet domain names and websites, has launched its annual report on the growth of the secondary Internet domain name market in 2007.
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