Entries from August 2004

August 23, 2004

AOL selects Omniture for Web analytics

America Online Selects Omniture To Provide Web Analytics: “Omniture, provider of the most mature and comprehensive technology for web analytics, today announced that America Online, Inc., has selected Omniture’s state-of-the-art hosted web analytics solution, SiteCatalyst™, to provide analytics across all of AOL’s worldwide properties and services.”
Interesting development — and excellent news for the Web analytics [...]

August 16, 2004

Denninghouse files for creditor protection

Dollar store owner Denninghouse seeks creditor shelter; stock marked down 49%: “TORONTO (CP) - Dollar store owner Denninghouse Inc.’s stock lost almost half its value Monday on news that it will close about 80 of its 93 corporate stores and is putting itself up for sale while restructuring under bankruptcy protection from creditors.”
Canadian Press writer [...]

August 4, 2004

AOL buys Mailblocks

Time Warner subsidiary America Online, Inc., announced today that it has completed the purchase of Los Altos, Calif.-based Mailblocks, Inc., for an undisclosed amount of money.
It’s an interesting buyout because it makes sense for AOL’s long-term strategy of enhancing its web-based services and getting away from its “walled garden” Internet service. Mailblocks’ award-winning “challenge/response” technology [...]

August 3, 2004

New meta-search engine IceRocket reviewed

IceRocket is an apparently new meta-search engine that is privately held. It’s more than your run-of-the-mill meta-search Web site, though. (For those of you not aware of what a meta-search Web site is, it’s a tool that licenses all or part of the search result indices of major algorithmic search engines such as Google, Teoma, [...]