comScore (NASDAQ : SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today reported holiday season retail e-commerce spending for the first 48 days of the November - December 2009 holiday season. For the holiday season-to-date, $24.8 billion has been spent online, marking a 4-percent increase versus the corresponding days last year. The most recent week began on a slightly disappointing note, with sales of $854 million on Green Monday (Dec. 14,

Nearly half (40%) of email marketers plan on increasing their budgets for the channel in 2010 and 47 percent said their budgets would stay the same, according to a new survey by Silverpop. In the coming year, more than half (52%) of email marketers said increasing customer loyalty was a top email marketing goal. Overall,

Is Google up to something when user login for Chrome OS was moved to the Chrome browser instead?  We couldn't help but agree with Arrington's belief that Google might just be setting the stage for the actual login interface for the Chrome OS, which could be by using Google Friend Connect. But that's in the future, what's the issue now is why Google decided to move user login of Chrome OS to Chrome Browser? Well,

Citing reliable sources,   TechCrunch is reporting that Google may be on the brink of acquiring yet again another company. Interestingly, this company called DocVerse provides service that allow users to work together around Microsoft Office documents. And if this push through, DocVerse will be receiving around $25 million from Google. DocVerse was founded by Shan Sinha and Alex deNeui who are both former Microsoft product strategist,

It's the time of year when not only does everybody reflect upon trends and happenings from the year past, but they also look forward and make predictions for the coming year. Nielsen has shared its projections for the top advertising trends for 2010. These are: 1. Optimizing media convergence is a top priority. 2. New models emerge to take advantage of smartphones. 3. More cross-media ad campaigns surface. 4. Commercialization of social networking hubs increase. 5.

I'm not quite sure what to make of this, but Google has launched its own URL shortener service called Goo.gl . Obviously, there are some pros and cons to this type of service. One drawback that I see is that the service is only available through the Google Toolbar and Feedburner. I can't shorten an URL directly like I can with other services like Tinyurl and Bit.ly. Secondly, Bit.ly offers tracking of your short URLs; Goo.gl does not (that I see).

Learn how to manage your brand and position your company in a positive manner to your customers. Manage negative feedback on the organic search engine results using these techniques and methods. By guest writer Brandon Leibowitz Since the internet has become interactive, meaning customers can interact with website owners, you must be weary of negative feedback and do everything in your power to manage your reputation in the organic search engine results.