Channel | Digital

EVERYBODY'S CHASING SMALL businesses. On the user side, research suggests that anywhere from 50% to 80% of all online searches may have a local intent

Kara Richter had one goal in mind when she co-founded From Bags to Riches in 2004: bringing high fashion to people in the not-so-high income brackets.

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In 1996 Lisa Hammond was working as an office manager on a construction site in Las Vegas. The need to do something meaningful led her to start a catalog

I went to Lollapalooza this summer, and I fit right in. The ticket came from a friend, and I declined at first, a little put off by the image of my gray

The New England-New York rivalry plays out regularly on baseball diamonds and football fields. But online, who wins? We spent some time perusing the sites

CNET Networks Inc. has acquired Silicon.de GmbH (www.silicon.de), a German online marketing services company.

Brulant Inc. has acquired EMergent Marketing, a search engine marketing firm, for an undisclosed sum.

Traffix Inc. posted net income of $842,048 for the third quarter, a gain over $316,667 for the prior-year period.

Mail order sales in the Czech Republic have been growing, mainly owing to e-shopping, said Tomas Hajek, secretary of the country's Direct Marketing and Mail Order Sales Association ADMAZ, according to the Prague Post.