OAKLAND, Calif., Oct. 28 /PRNewswire/ -- The average American child already consumes two to three pounds of added sugar per week -- more than double the USDA recommended limit of one pound per week. On top of this, sugar intake spikes during Halloween week and often replaces consumption...
Search engine Ask.com will stop retaining search data if users activate a new feature that prohibits it, according to an Associated Press AP report. That decision makes Ask the first major search engine to promise users it won't store data on their searches, meaning they can conduct research online anonymously....
Whole Foods earnings Whole Foods Market Inc. said Tuesday that its profit slipped in the most recent quarter despite higher sales, as the natural and organic retailer doubled spending on new stores. The Austin, Texas- based grocer, which is also fighting this week to save its takeover...
CEO Diller is breaking up his media conglomerate, keeping his favorites and setting the rest adrift. But Liberty Media, the majority stake shareholder, is moving to thwart his dastardly plans.
Interactive Corp.'s identity crisis is nearly full blown. Barry Diller, the creator and would-be dismantler of IAC, is turning the company into a textbook example of how to blur a company's brand and how to confuse and and alienate customers, employees and partners. Diller quilted together a bunch of barely-alike...
Ask.com Layoffs Point to Confused Strategy at IACDiller's latest messupThis is a brilliant analysis of why Ask.com's new "strategy"is a mistake. Forget competing with Google, why not capitalize on catering to the many who have relied on Ask for the types of things they might otherwise have asked their Mom?...
Hard to believe that while I was attending Rutgers University -- in a building not far from the grain-alcohol frat parties that I may or may not have gone to, depending on who's asking -- the history of Teoma was taking shape. You don't know Teoma? Why, it is in...
MARIA BARTIROMO, CNBC ANCHOR: Several other search engines had also been in the running for the MySpace deal, including Yahoo!, Microsoft and Ask.com. So now that Google has won, what does this mean for the competition? Joining us now with his insight on the...
As I write this, there is much Sturm und Drang over the fact that several telecom companies gave out records of telephone calls to the National Security Agency. And the Transportation Security Agency has started offering its Registered Traveler program, through which frequent travelers can undergo...
BEGIN VIDEO CLIP UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It gets you hooked. It gets you excited. It gets you the good detailed answer. You`re just getting confused. Google`s not better; it`s just more popular. END VIDEO CLIP MICHELLE CARUSO-CABRERA, CNBC ANCHOR: That was Ask.com`s latest...
FRAMINGHAM, Mass. -- Yahoo!, Ask.com, Reuters, AOL, and many others to educate publishers and corporate marketers about RSS, Blogs and Podcasting as a marketing medium IDG World Expo, the leading producer of world-class tradeshows, conferences and events for technology markets, today provided a preview of SyndicateTM, a B2B conference...
SAN FRANCISCO AFP — The cartoon butler dubbed "Jeeves" that long served a pioneering US Internet search engine was retired as part of a bid to wrest market-share from industry giant Google. Jeeves was pictured riding horseback into the sunset through the weekend and vanished on Monday as the...
Ask.com has signed a long-term lease for 26,878 s/f at Gateway, a Class A office building located at One North Lexington Avenue in White Plains, New York.
DURHAM, N.C. -- Motricity, a global leader in Mobile Marketplace Management, today announced that it has signed a partnership agreement with Ask.com. Under the agreement, Ask.com will integrate Motricity's mobile content to enrich the search experience on Ask.com (www.ask.com).
SAN FRANCISCO -- LookSmart (NASDAQ:LOOK) (ASX:LOK), an online advertising company, announced today that Ask.com, a leading search engine and wholly-owned business of IAC, has extended its license of LookSmart's AdCenter for Publishers through 2009. Ask.com leverages LookSmart's AdCenter as a component of its Ask Sponsored Listings PPC advertising program. Ask...
Motricity partners with Ask.com on content search service Motricity is partnering with Ask.com on a computer-based search service for mobile content. The PC-based offering uses the search engine from Ask.com-formerly AskJeeves.com-that r Motricity...
Sagebrush Corp. has announced that education professionals can now find information, products, and services directly from its Ednow.com Internet portal through Ask Jeeves at Ask.com. Ednow.com is an Internet portal designed to serve as an online education center exclusively for K-12 teachers, librarians, administrators, and other education professionals. Ask...
EMERYVILLE, Calif.--BUSINESS WIRE--Aug. 24, 1999-- Consumer Question Answering Service at Ask.com Reports User, Reach and Duration Increases Ask JeevesTM, Inc. (Nasdaq:ASKJ), which provides natural-language question answering services on the Web for consumers and companies, today announced its move from 49 to 34 in the latest Media Metrix...
