CA Appeals Court: Claims Under State Spam Statute Not Preempted by CAN-SPAM

[Post by Venkat Balasubramani with some comments from Eric Goldman, published with permission] A California appeals court weighed in on a long-running debate: whether CAN-SPAM preempts California’s spam statute. This is a significant decision that covers a lot of ground (I think it mentions just...

LivingSocial.com Overpasses Groupon: Is this Because of Questionable Adware?

From Pace Lattin: In one of those things I can’t believe the media didn’t notice, Groupon competitor LivingSocial actually had more visitors this last month. If you notice the graph below from Alexa, LivingSocial clearly was getting closer over the last few months, but in the middle of January overtook...

Twitter is Virtually Worthless, Valuation is a Joke

According to TechCrunch, Twitter has at least $1B valuation, despite it not having made a single dollar in revenue yet (ok, they’ve made some). Some other articles claim that twitter is worth at least $1.7 Billion, and others have claimed even higher numbers.  However, I am a firm believer that...

Block Lists Are Bandaids in the War Against Malware Attacks

One of our industry’s most valuable assets — customer trust – is under threat from malware. Malicious code in display advertising continues to grow at an alarming rate; more than 1 million ad impressions per day are infected. Overall, 1.3 million websites host malware, and third-party advertising...

Are Advertising Networks including FoxNetworks giving Millions of Dollars a Month to Illegal Websites?

While publicly most display advertising networks have been pushing more and more compliance and transparency, behind the scenes the issues with advertising placement has been getting worse and worse.  It has come to my attention that a group of advertising networks promoting themselves as clean sources of...