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Duly Noted Articles

Yahoo board rules

March 17, 2008

Yahoo Inc. amended its company's bylaws last week, extending the deadline for nominations to Yahoo's board of directors from March 14 to 10 days following the public announcement of the date for Yahoo's 2008 annual meeting of stockholders. As of press time, this date had yet to be announced. A company statement said, "the amendment will give stockholders who want to nominate one or more directors, including Microsoft Corporation, more time to do so."

Road blocks

March 03, 2008

Time Warner Inc.'s Internet service provider Road Runner began blocking images in e-mail by default in a move to protect subscribers from spam. Road Runner has about 7.7 million subscribers. Other e-mail inboxes that switch images off by default include AOL, Hotmail/WLM, Yahoo!, Gmail, Outlook 2007, and Outlook 2003.

What's in a name?

March 03, 2008

A dispute over preferential URL legislation has surfaced in the Florida courts. Chris McElroy has filed a class action suit against Network Solutions LLC and the Internet Corp. for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN).

Data suits

March 03, 2008

Experian filed a lawsuit against identity theft insurance company Lifelock in a California district court last week. It alleges Lifelock has illegally put fraud alerts on credit files managed by Experian, flooding its system and reducing the effectiveness of legitimate credit freezes. Lifelock executives have stated the suit is "frivolous" and a ploy to attack a competitor.

Apollo fails to launch

March 03, 2008

Arbitron and Nielsen Co. cancelled further development of their joint Apollo Project, a research tool that aimed to track purchase influencers and metrics across multiple media channels in a single database. The companies said that despite interest from Procter & Gamble and six other clients, there was not enough interest to justify the cost of a national rollout.

How to keep online secrets

March 03, 2008

The Interactive Advertising Bureau released interactive advertising privacy guidelines last week developed by representatives from Facebook, Google, ValueClick, Walt Disney Internet Group, Yahoo and others.

Bigger in flat rate

February 25, 2008

The US Postal Service has introduced a new box, which costs $12.95 and ships to any US address. The Priority Mail large flat-rate box, at a foot long and wide, and 5.5 inches tall, is 50% larger than other USPS flat rate boxes. The service will be available beginning March 3.

DHL Tightens Belt

February 18, 2008

DHL Express USA reduced its workforce by approximately 600 positions last week. The company said that workforce reductions will occur through attrition, reductions and suspending open positions across functional areas and were an effort to lower general and administrative costs due to the current economic climate.

Ratings latening

February 18, 2008

Nielsen Co. sent a letter on February 8 to its customers acknowledging the delays in ratings reports. The company has hired Cheryl Idell, former EVP of media and marketing planning at Twentieth Century Fox, to oversee Nielsen's media analytics products.

"Free" costs $2.9M

February 18, 2008

ValueClick will pay $2.9 million to settle charges of violating CAN-SPAM and other fair advertising Acts with the Federal Trade Commission. The charges address practices of ValueClick's Hi-Speed Media division in using the word "free" in its marketing materials.

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