Nearly twenty percent (19.9%) of commercial, permissioned emails never reached consumers inboxes in the United States and Canada in the second half of 2009, according to a new report from Return Path. Permissioned email reached only 80.1 percent of consumer inboxes in the United States and Canada during the second half of 2009, a .8 percent increase from the 79.3 percent inbox place in the first half of 2009. In the United States and Canada, 3.

As aid workers in Haiti settle into the anything-but-routine work of helping care for a devastated country, people continue to come to Yahoo! Search to find out how to help victims of the earthquake. Just this week, Haiti-related search spikes turned to " tents for Haiti ," which had 1,000 percent more searches than the previous week. The plight of Haiti's orphans also continues to be on people's minds as they search for " Haiti orphan rescue ,

Google and Microsoft compete in search, cloud computing and Web services, but their battles extend from boardroom bargaining with customers to the nation's capitol. Google spent $4 million on lobbying in 2009, up from $2.84 million in 2008 and almost three times the $1.52 million it spent in 2007, according to figures compiled by the U.S. Senate. Microsoft's own lobbying spend plummeted from 2007 and 2008, where it was around $9 million, to $6.72 million.

by Vera H-C Chan Our picks from the day's hottest searches. The Wizarding World of Harry Potter (breakout). The Super Bowl ad about the Universal Orlando park gets a Web preview. Coconut Water (+4,224%). The latest rediscovered elixir gets even bigger, especially after a Madonna investment . Architectural Digest (+1,326%). The upscale magazine goes for a celebrity cover this time around. Noah Cyrus (+422%). She may be 9,

The office pool, big screen TVs, great commercials, the half time show, friends and family. These are all things that remind me of super bowl Sunday. However no game day is ever complete without a monumental spread of food. Now that weve shared some tips and trick to help prepare for the big game , time for the menu. I know in my house Nachos and Buffalo wings are a must to kick off the game and by the half time show we have the Hot Dogs and Burgers on the barbeque .

Today, we're introducing a new feature for Google Postini Services: Message Log Search. This feature delivers the search and analysis capabilities normally available with on-premise solutions, but without the associated complexity or maintenance. When messages pass through the Postini service, header and transaction data about these messages is stored in a log. Previously, admins only had access to this data through customer support. With the Message Log Search feature,

comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world today announced that Chris Nicotra is joining the comScore management team as Chief Technology Officer. Mr. Nicotra will be responsible for overseeing comScore's software engineering, data application engineering, and infrastructure technology teams, assuming the role recently vacated through former comScore CTO Greg Dale's appointment as COO.

Most of us have accounts at dozens of social networking sites and are active at minimum 3 of them. Therefore aggregating this activity is such a good idea: you want to keep your friends updated on all news and stories you share. There are quite a few tools that unite several social networks for you and today I am sharing a new-comer: Flavors.me is a sleek tool for aggregating your social medial life.

Twitter has introduced a new feature for Twitter.com called Hovercards. These are simply little windows that pop up when you hover over any name on your timeline. It's important to note that a lot of people use Twitter through different applications and never even see Twitter's actual site. It is nice to see that Twitter recognizes that people do still use Twitter.com. Hovercards display information like name, profile pic, location, whether or not you follow them,

Would marketers be smarter to take the money they'll spend on Super Bowl 2010 commercials and use it to by YouTube ads instead? Click to read the rest of this post.