Awareness of cookies has increased significantly among consumers over the past two years, but most are still ignorant about the actual role they play … Read the whole story

AOL's home county gets Washington Post Newsweek Interactive's first hyper-local Web site, with window replacement retailer Long Windows taking a long-term sponsorship. Read the whole story

San Francisco's Healthline Networks secured $21 million in series-B financing led by GE/NBC Universal's Peacock Equity Fund and will power health-related searches on AOL, … Read the whole story

Ansible, a new stand-alone mobile marketing agency, will operate as part of Interpublic's Futures Marketing Group, with Vladimir Edelman at the helm. Read the whole story

In a move that strengthens its comparison shopping business while adding search expertise and a presence in China, ValueClick is buying MeziMedia for as … Read the whole story

Walker Jacobs, formerly senior vice president of the Reuters Americas Media Group, was tapped to lead the new consolidated Turner Entertainment New Media Ad … Read the whole story

Radio was the top-gaining Web category in June, according to comScore MediaMetrix. Yahoo Music led the growth in the category, and Yahoo again led … Read the whole story

Answers Corp. says it will pay $100 million to buy Lexico Publishing Group, owner of Web properties Dictionary.com, Thesaurus.com, and Reference.com. The deal will … Read the whole story

Google's latest Software as a Service is a product making it cheap and easy for small businesses to add site search with Google functionality … Read the whole story

Sony BMG is partnering with Dada to create Dada Entertainment. The ad-supported service will combine a social networking experience with content like ringtones, full-length … Read the whole story