How Is the Economy Affecting Your Online Business?

Hey, Aplus.net community, and anyone else out there — we’ve got a question. We’re wondering if the current economic crunch is affecting how you do business. (more…)

Microsoft Turns the Tables on Yahoo

Yahoo, who has already turned down a number of buy-out offers from Microsoft this year, has reportedly changed its tune after last week’s implosion of the search ad partnership deal it had hoped to make with Google.

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Google Walks Away from Deal: What Next for Yahoo?

Today, despite earlier eleventh-hour attempts to adjust the deal to make it work, Google walked away from its proposed search ad partnership deal with Yahoo.

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Google and Yahoo Renegotiate Details of Potential Search Ad Partnership

Several news sites reported today that the long-in-the-making search advertising partnership between Yahoo and Google — which we’ve been following with interest here at the Aplus.net Blog because of the implications it has for the entire world of online commerce — was changed dramatically when the companies agreed to “scale back” the scope of the merger in order to improve their chances of federal approval.

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Forbes’ Top 25 E-Commerce Tech Terms, and More

You know what SEO is, and you know what an affiliate program is (at least, you should!) … but do you know what the word choreography means, in eCommerce terms?  How about orchestration? Do you know what a long tail is, and how it can help you perfect your marketing strategies?

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