Channel | Digital

LinkShare Corp. has acquired the online lead generation services firm Traffic Strategies.com. Terms were not disclosed.

Lillian Vernon Corp. plans to feature online customer reviews of product purchases on its Web site, as part of a broader effort to increase sales, customer loyalty and referrals from Internet search engines.

Google announced Friday that it will acquire FeedBurner, a company that distributes both content and advertising to blogs and other media Web sites.

Movie rental site Netflix and home shopping portal QVC.com are, along with perennial winner Amazon.com, the current kings of online customer satisfaction, according to the ForeSee Results Top 100 Online Retail Satisfaction Index.

nnovation Interactive, the digital marketing company that owns such online service agencies agencies as search marketing firm 360i and media management platform SearchIgnite, announced today that it has completed a buyout from its parent company, Livedoor Japan.

(Searchline) Google has made a major change in the way it displays its general search results. And while the impact may at first be small, the significance of that change will grow over time and eventually ripple through the very concept of optimizing Web pages for search.

In early May, researchers from the Yerkes National Primate Research Center found a possible correlation between human speech and the gestures of chimpanzees.

Craig Cochrane knew he wanted to break into electronic retailing. Armed with an MBA from the University of Southern California and several years in network and digital television production, he just needed the right concept.

Analysts keep saying that in the United States there are eight cell phones to every PC. But so far, the mobile sphere is rife with unrealized potential. Mobile marketing is confined largely to messages advertisers are pretty sure young users will be glad to opt into, such as video clips from upcoming movies. And m-commerce…

It'll happen any minute that big surge of online shoppers we've all been waiting for. Right? Not so fast. Growth has flattened out, and there simply won't