BizReport : December 1, 2006 Archive

December 1, 2006 Archive

Research | December 01, 2006

Merrill Lynch Predicts Growth In Branded Revenue

Despite a predicted slowdown in growth for Q4, 2006, brokerage house Merrill Lynch is predicting overall growth for online giant Yahoo! in the coming year. This, thanks in part to the recent buying habit of the company. >>

Trends & Ideas | December 01, 2006

First Virtual Millionaire Is For Real

Meet the world’s first virtual millionaire, Anshe Chung. Who now has more than a million cold, hard dollars in her real world bank account, earned primarily in the virtual world she created through Second Life. >>

Internet | December 01, 2006

New Year Predictions from McAfee

McAfee has announced its predictions for the top ten security threats likely to hit businesses in 2007. >>

Mobile Marketing | December 01, 2006

Mobile Ad Budgets Increase

Several big brands are earmarking portions of next year’s advertising budgets for mobile marketing. >>

Law & Regulation | December 01, 2006

Email Covered by 4th Amendment

A court has decided that the government’s ability to search and seize email content from service providers is in violation of the Fourth Amendment. >>

E-commerce | December 01, 2006

Intuit Banking on Digital Insight Deal

This week Intuit Inc., developers of financial software including Quicken and TurboTax, has expanded into the online banking industry with the purchase of Digital Insight. >>