Internet megamart Amazon.com on Thursday announced plans for a weekly online talk show hosted by the controversial comic Bill Maher. "Amazon Fishbowl With Bill Maher" will stream live every Thursday night for a half hour beginning in June. ...Read the whole story
Verizon on Thursday replaced Microsoft's MSN with Yahoo! as the default Web portal for its FiOS Internet service. FiOS--know also as a fiber-to-the-premises network--offers far faster broadband speeds than standard DSL. ...Read the whole story
Consumers were hit with an unexpected deluge of e-mails this holiday season after registering with a Web site or marketer, according to a new report by e-mail marketing services company Return Path. ...Read the whole story
Marketing guru Ed Keller announced Thursday that he had formed a new word-of-mouth research firm, the Keller Fay Group, which will launch with an initiative to track conversations in the Web's least visible forums--e-mail and private chat rooms. ...Read the whole story
Online campaigns for movie releases perform the best well in advance of opening day--peaking at 21 to 27 days before release, according to new research from Dynamic Logic. ...Read the whole story
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