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For a small business that serves a local area -- a restaurant or gardening service, for example -- word of mouth can quickly make or break a reputation. When the conversation happens online in organized and professionally managed forums like Citysearch and YellowPages.com, reputations can be made an...

As the Web video craze continues to escalate, the market for this content is evolving. Advertisers are trying to cash in on clips by both amateurs and production companies; new Web sites catering to the trend are popping up; and video is gaining in popularity on additional platforms, notably mobile....

There's no denying that seismic changes are afoot in the music industry. As the record labels engage in bitter battles over copyrights, artists are increasingly turning to alternative means of releasing music and reaching their fans. Prince chose to give away his latest album, "Planet Earth," for fr...

Many e-commerce sites are terrible, but they don't have to be that way, according to Jim Wehmann. Wehmann is vice president for strategic marketing services for Minneapolis-based Digital River. The company, founded in 1994, is well-known around the world for building and managing online businesses f...

"Free software" is a term that's often used interchangeably with "open source," and often understood simply to mean software that is obtained without charge. However, the idea of free software is neither about openness nor about price; it is a matter of freedom, and its implications extend into the ...

Channel partner opportunity management firm BlueRoads announced on Sept. 17 a new lead referral module designed to help vendors gain strategic insight into the management of better sales channel yield. The new software module captures new referrals from a vendor's extended partner community and harn...

Only a few companies can afford to spend millions of dollars on researching and developing new technologies for their product lines, but that doesn't necessarily exclude smaller businesses from getting their hands on cutting-edge innovation. Each year, thousands of discoveries are made at universiti...

Only a few companies can afford to spend millions of dollars on researching and developing new technologies for their product lines, but that doesn't necessarily exclude smaller businesses from getting their hands on cutting-edge innovation. Each year, thousands of discoveries are made at universiti...

Only a few companies can afford to spend millions of dollars on researching and developing new technologies for their product lines, but that doesn't necessarily exclude smaller businesses from getting their hands on cutting-edge innovation. Each year, thousands of discoveries are made at universiti...

SpiralFrog.com, a free music download site that launched on Sept. 17, allows registered users to download more than 800,000 songs and videos. As long as downloaders keep renewing their free monthly site registration, they can continue to play the song and video files on their PC. Users can also copy...