Spotlight Features

Recognizing the mutual benefit that accrues to helping their online merchants succeed, e-commerce hosting companies, along with e-tailers themselves, are driving demand for software applications that can help them better manage and grow their businesses. This final installment in our five-part serie...

Jeff Taylor is at it again. The Monster.com founder raised US$10 million in venture capital from General Catalyst Partners and Sequoia Capital to launch Eons, a 50-plus-targeted media company that he hopes will inspire a generation of Baby Boomers and seniors to live the biggest life possible. Taylo...

The rise of digital marketing has opened up a world of opportunity to win customers that goes well beyond search engine optimization, banner ads and link exchanges. This is due in part to the evolution of the Internet, which is sparking creative ideas that leverage new online platforms for guerilla ...

Every e-mail, ad and search engine marketing placement entices a click by making a promise. Most of the time that promise is immediately broken and the brand behind it is tarnished. Marketers work very hard at enticing that first response. We treat the click as the objective and consider the battle ...

Last week's happenings foreshadowed potential changes in the wind. With the stock option backdating scandal widening, it appears that Apple CEO Steve Jobs may have been caught in the net. Meanwhile, with the realization that gaming has been driving a lot of the PC industry, and some powerful recent ...

It's a sad fact of life for today's information-driven organizations that the nature of security threats is continuously shifting and evolving. Intrusion mechanisms such as worms, Trojans and rootkit exploits continually evolve into more-developed forms, and wax and wane in terms of number and frequ...

Many hedge funds charge extraordinarily high fees to the investor. Not only do they charge a base fee that can be augmented by churning the securities in the fund, but they also can charge a profit-participation fee based upon a healthy percentage of the fund's gains. To add insult to injury, the ac...

In the recent movie "Thank You for Smoking," a tobacco lobbyist comes under fire for working to protect people's right to smoke. A similar movie could be made about gambling and the villain would be Representative Bob Goodlatte. The Virginia Republican has been fighting to enact legislation on Inter...

Michael Yang and Yeogirl Yun are hardly strangers to the realm of comparison shopping sites. The dynamic duo founded mySimon.com, which became the largest price comparison shopping site on the Internet, with over 10 million users in 2000. After raising US$30 million in investment capital, mySimon wa...

Small and medium-sized businesses are frequently slow to adopt new technology because of the cost, manpower and lengthy deployment cycles that can be involved, but Internet telephony is one technology that deserves serious consideration for two related reasons. First, an increasing number of SMBs ha...