Kenneth Corbin

Online marketers and publishers collect a lot of information about consumers as they travel along the Internet. This has privacy advocates concerned and the marketing industry on the defense as the FTC considers whether a regulated mechanism is needed to protect individual privacy. The FTC’s report on the subject is now out, and it lays […]

Have you been waiting for an alternative to Apple’s (and AT & T’s) iPad? Then you’ll want to mark Nov. 14 on your calendar as the day Samsung Galaxy Tab becomes available through Sprint. Of course, the Galaxy Tab will be available on all four major carriers, unlike some other tablet we could mention. The […]

When it comes to managing your small business marketing strategy over social media, it pays to keep a close eye on social networking leaders. Frequent changes, such as the ones announced yesterday by Facebook, can affect your current efforts and also open new opportunities. Our sister site, Datamation .com outlines significant new changes that will […]

Sales tax — specifically whether or not ecommerce transactions ought to be collected in the same manner as they are with brick-and-mortar businesses — is again a hot controversy in Washington where the idea has resurfaced before the House of Representatives in the form of the Main Street Fairness Act. The reaction from ecommerce retailers […]

Search giant Google has completed a major overhaul of its system for indexing content on the Web, an upgrade the company promises will deliver more recent and relevant search results. Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) is claiming that the new indexing system, dubbed Caffeine, will retrieve Web content that is 50 percent fresher than its previous efforts […]

HP has unveiled a sweeping overhaul of its suite of consumer and business printers, announcing plans to redesign nearly its entire line with new cloud capabilities that will let people initiate a print job remotely simply by sending an email. For HP (NYSE: HPQ), which introduced its first Internet-aware printer last year, the move extends […]

WASHINGTON — Google may be the largest and most successful Internet advertising firm in the world, but the company would have you know that its work also delivers substantial benefits to small businesses across all sectors of the economy. At a news conference here in the Capitol building, Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) on Tuesday offered the […]

How much is a home page worth to an advertiser? For some of the biggest portals on the Web, selling a full-page takeover ad on high-traffic days can net upwards of $1 million, according to financial analysis firm Broadpoint AmTech. But it’s not just the big boys that are cashing in. A prominent industry-wide survey […]

For the past couple years, as Twitter has edged closer to the mainstream and seen its user tally skyrocket, the social media company has been asked continually about its plans to make money. Twitter’s founders have dropped a few hints, but offered little concrete in the way of a business model, until today. Twitter is […]

Facebook passed a significant milestone last week, topping Google for the first time as the most popular destination on the Web, according to Web metrics firm Hitwise. Facebook had previously topped the metric company’s traffic counter for single individual days, but had never finished out a week in the top spot. Hitwise, a division of […]

With increasing reports of identity theft, Internet privacy’s a hot-button topic that’s only getting hotter. It looks like 2010 may be the year Washington actually does something about it — which could affect how marketers (and small businesses) collect customer information. Read the details at eSecurityPlanet.com. For consumer groups that concern themselves with Internet privacy, […]

Small business e-tailers get a bit of holiday cheer in the form of a report from comScore, which projects that the biggest online shopping period of the year will see a small jump in spending. Kenneth Corbin at InternetNews.com reports on the details. After a healthy start, this holiday season is projected to see a […]