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Consumers Speak Up for Their Rights

Written on
January 13th 2010
Author
Murray Newlands

ADOTAS – One hundred years ago you got your shopping or whatever from your local shop. If the goods and services were not up to standard and the service was lousy, the shop would close. This was true of small towns but also metropolises as people traveled less even within cities. [...] more...

Split on FTC and diet ads, and comments on Obama, search rankings and advertorials

Written on
September 4th 2009
Author
Edward Barrera

ADOTAS — In our latest poll, readers will nearly split on the question, “Should the FTC push for more restrictions on online diet advertisements?” Fifty percent said, “No, let the marketplace self-regulate” and 48 percent (obviously our poll rounds up or down) said, “Yes, it’s giving good companies a bad [...] more...

President Obama to seize the Internet under ‘cyberthreat’?

Written on
August 31st 2009
Author
Edward Barrera

ADOTAS — Cybersecurity has been an ongoing discussion on the federal level. So it’s not surprising that Congress has worked hard on a worst-case scenario and what would need to be done. The surprise is that a newly revised bill appears to permit the president to seize temporary control of private-sector [...] more...

‘We’ll head overseas’ Microsoft warns about Obama taxes

Written on
June 4th 2009
Author
Edward Barrera

Phishing Scam Targets YouTube Partners. (Techcrunch) Ballmer Says Tax Would Move Microsoft Jobs Offshore. (Bloomberg) Ex-Googler’s New White House Job Rankles Some. (WSJ) – [link fixed] The Palm Pre Will Bomb. (SIA) Digg Testing New Social Ad Units. (MediaPost) China continues to take down social networks. (Danwei) Subscribe to the free Adotas.com Newsletter addthis_url [...] more...

Obama Considers Geithner, Summers for Treasury

Written on
November 6th 2008
Author
Reuters Group

President-elect Barack Obama, who will inherit the worst financial crisis in decades when he takes office, is expected to announce his pick for some key economic jobs soon and may reveal his Treasury Secretary selection as early as Thursday. Timothy Geithner, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, former [...] more...

What Obama’s Win Means for Advertisers

Written on
November 5th 2008
Author
Kathleen

ADOTAS – Obama won: now what does that mean for the ad industry? According to an article over at AdAge.com, increased regulation, taxes on ads and expanded FTC oversight may be headed our way. Rep. Rahm Emanuel, D-Ill., may be chief of staff for Obama, and Dick O’Brien, the executive vice [...] more...

Obama Issues iPhone App

Written on
October 3rd 2008
Author
Kathleen

ADOTAS – Obama is taking his allegiance to tech to a new level: he’s released an iPhone app that will enable them to easily reach out to contacts in battleground states to remind them to vote for the Democratic candidate. The app, dubbed “Call Friends” organizes the user’s phonebook by state [...] more...

Search Advertising May Decide Presidential Election

Written on
September 10th 2008
Author
Kathleen

ADOTAS – The presidential election may be decided by Internet advertisements, a new study from Didit asserts. The search marketing firm found that “nearly 7% of those surveyed reported that were likely to change their vote before the election based on Internet Information acquired primarily through search engines.” The key takeaway [...] more...

Cybercriminals Ride Wave of Election Mania to Click Farm City

Written on
February 29th 2008
Author
Sarah Novotny

ADOTAS — Cybercriminals have found new targets for their dastardly schemes: the election-obsessed. The most eagerly followed election race in recent memory has triggered an avalanche of cybersquatter activity as online speculators try to shake down the public by registering more than 1,900 domain names related to presidential candidates, NetNames [...] more...

Internet To Transform American Political Discourse

Written on
June 11th 2007
Author
Sarah Novotny

The Web has connected people around the globe and is becoming a powerful tool for organizing movements and setting agendas in American politics. Consequently, the presidential election of 2008 seems likely to be an election that will be strongly characterised by the political blogosphere. We may look back at the 2008 [...] more...



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