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Microsoft and Google were back in court on Tuesday in their dispute over Kai-Fu Lee, the executive who left Microsoft to head Google’s new research and development center in China. Videotaped depositions were shown in court from Google’s Sergey Brin and Eric Schmidt, and Microsoft’s Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer. [Read more]  [Read more]

Chris Carpenter and Jeremy Wilson have launched ‘Adwords Mentor’ program. “Learn how to first set up your Adwords campaigns to avoid the common mistakes made by first-time users”, say Chris and Jeremy. [Training Course Launch] [Read more]  [Read more]

Microsoft has filed a 26-page document to support their injunction filing against Google’s hiring of Microsoft engineer Dr. Kai-Fu Lee and Google has filed a rebuttal. John Battelle provides some inside information. [Read more]  [Read more]

Harte-Hanks has formally launched six new service centers for email marketing to combine email with other marketing channels, such as direct mail, print and call centers. [Read more]  [Read more]

Spamhaus, a leading anti-spam and security organization, has accused Yahoo of failing in the fight against online fraud. [Read more]  [Read more]

The money spent on online ads for the first half of 2005 grew 9.4 percent compared to 2004, according to TNS Marketing Intelligence. [Read more]  [Read more]

An Ad for a position at Google as a “fraud operations director, merchant payment solution,” has started people thinking whether Google is planning to introduce a new electronic payment system. [Read more]  [Read more]

Scripps Networks is launching a thirteen part online video series on Foodnetwork.com during Thanksgiving week using the website for TV like content. [Read more]  [Read more]

A Gizmondo mobile entertainment device which can be used as a web browser, is to be launched and the buyers of the ad-supported unit are expected to complete an online questionnaire for improved ad targeting. [Read more]  [Read more]

There is a growing competition for getting the top positions in online ads and the cost of ad space in ad networks like Google and Yahoo is increasing. [Read more]  [Read more]

The Google Earth mapping feature is being modified to help people displaced by Hurricane Katrina, in the latest of a series of modifications to the technology. [Read more]  [Read more]

Google Earth, a free product made available by Google that offers a 3D satellite view of the earth, has webmasters thinking up of ways of integrating it into their websites. [Read more]  [Read more]