Online Tax Sites Busy As Procrastinators Near Deadline
According to comScore theres a spike in traffic to tax sites from late January to midFebruary as early filers file their tax returns Some 29 million users visited tax sites in February The peak was the week ending February 6th when 14 million users visited tax sites
Early filers are outnumbered by late ones who represent the second major spike in traffic to tax sites In 19 million users visited irsgov on April 15th In that number hit 215 million users
On a yearoveryear basis comScore found traffic to tax Web sites including irsgov turbotax...
Attention! Online grocery-shopping is back
Attention Online groceryshopping is back
After a spectacular implosion Internet groceries are rolling again Jean Chatzky tests out one of the onyourdoorstep services
By Jean Chatzky
Today Financial Editor
Updated 755 am May 3
These days the supermarket many folks use is in their homes Yes more and more people are buying groceries online Today financial editor Jean Chatzky was invited on the show to discuss the pros and cons of this form of cybershopping...
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Codswollop Say it with me now
A savvy marketer that Bob Young In response to a trademark infringement lawsuit filed against Apple over the nickname of its latest Young of Lulucom and owner of the Hamilton TigerCats football team has offered to license the teams historical use of the word Tiger to Apple free of charge As you may recall Apple was slapped with a suit by online computer reseller TigerDirect a day before the release of its Mac X 104 Tiger operating system see Mr Jobs you have Tiger Direct holding on Line 1 and someone from Kelloggs on Line 2...
Yahoo gets personal with new service
The companys new personal search engine My Web will enable registered users to set up a searchable archive of everything they look for online As well as being able to save favourite web pages users will also be able to keep a record of their search results and retrieve the results when and if required All pages can be annotated with notes and users can even share their saved favourites with friends and colleagues via email instant messaging and
In addition My Web enables users to create folders to store exact copies of web documents such as travel itineraries and events...
Marketers Shift Ad Spending To Online
Nearly half of marketers plan to spend less this year on newspapers magazines direct mail and other traditional advertising channels so they can spend more online a study released Tuesday showed
The cause for the shift is the change in consumer behavior according to Forrester Research Inc which published the study Online Marketing Forecast to An increasing number of consumers are using the Web to get news sports and entertainment reports and to buy products and services...