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BusinessWeek June 28, 2004 Timothy J. Mullaney	Claria: The Napster Of Pop-Up Advertising The smart course may be to let the risks play out before Claria's IPO, letting investors know whether they'll buy a rocket or a dud.
PC World November 2005 Tynan & Spring	The Hidden Money Trail Those programs that pelt you with ads and bog down your PC are financed by some of America's largest companies.
The Motley Fool June 30, 2005 Alyce Lomax	Bad Ads at Microsoft? Hopefully rumors of Microsoft's interest in an adware company are just rumors.
Wired December 2005 Annalee Newitz	Don't Call It Spyware Three years ago Gator (now Claria) was considered a parasite and a scourge. Today it's a rising star - selling virtually the same product. How a pop-up pariah won the adware wars.
InternetNews September 1, 2005 Susan Kuchinskas	Yahoo Funding Spyware? Analyst Ben Edelman charges Yahoo with supporting spyware companies by having them distribute its pay-per-click ads. He says that advertisers should be told what they are getting.
PC World November 2001 Tom Spring	Consumer Alert: Stealth Ad Invasion Don't look now, but your computer may be harboring software that lets unwanted advertising in...
Entrepreneur February 2004 Melissa Campanelli	A Pop-Up Victory Competitors' ads could muscle in on your Web site.
BusinessWeek June 28, 2004	Ben Edelman, Adware Scourge This 24-year-old law student-expert witness says he's "100% convinced that spyware is a fair label" for advertising software.
BusinessWeek April 24, 2006 Grow & Helm	Your Ad Here. And Here. And Here How a web of middlemen is hijacking the placement of online ads - and cashing in.
InternetNews October 1, 2004 Erin Joyce	A Hobbled Anti-Spyware Law California has its first anti-spyware bill, but it doesn't do enough to terminate the growing use of spyware that logs your moves online. And don't expect to see much stronger legislation in Congress.
BusinessWeek September 26, 2005 Ben Elgin	For Yahoo, Mistrust Is Popping Up Yahoo! could do more to fix adware problems.
PC World July 2004 Tom Spring	Striking Back at Spyware States, feds consider regulating intrusive software.
InternetNews June 8, 2005 Roy Mark	Bad Actors Safe Under Spyware Legislation? Congress should do less, rather than more, when it comes to federal anti-spyware bills.
InternetNews March 20, 2006 Roy Mark	Big Ads Add to Adware, Spyware Major Internet advertisers are financing - sometimes unwittingly - the spread of potentially harmful adware and spyware, according to a new Center for Democracy and Technology finger pointing report.
PC Magazine May 31, 2006 Robert Lemos	A Future Without Adware? Prosecutors and consumer advocates are on the attack against adware. Is a future without deceptive ad software attainable?
InternetNews December 23, 2003 Janis Mara	Judge Downs Pop-Ups in Contrary Decision Due to trademark infringement, a judge granted a preliminary injunction against adware company WhenU from displaying pop-up ads for Vision Direct when users visit the 1-800 Contacts website.
InternetNews May 11, 2005 Roy Mark	Adware Called Too Cozy With Spyware The Center for Democracy and Technology says complex relationships allow responsible parties to dodge liability even if Congress passes an anti-spyware bill.
InternetNews February 10, 2004 Janis Mara	Advertising Beyond The Browser The desktop comes into its own as an ad medium.
PC World April 2004 Liane Cassavoy	Bye-Bye, Pop-Ups. Hello...? Pop-up ads, those reviled windows that intrude on your Web surfing, seem to be on the decline. But don't celebrate yet: New forms of advertising that may be just as annoying and even more intrusive are likely to replace them.
PC World June 14, 2002 Tom Spring	Has Your Browser Been Hijacked Lately? Lop.com's drive-by download marketing tactics irk some surfers.
PC World July 2005 Andrew Brandt	Can You Trust Your Spyware Protection? Determining what classifies as spyware is a difficult problem, and would-be spyware manufacturers try to make sure their software is not blacklisted by the major anti-spyware tools.
The Motley Fool January 6, 2004 Rex Moore	Judge Bars Pop-Ups When last we left WhenU.com, it had won a court victory allowing it to serve whatever pop-up ads it wanted on top of U-Haul's website, even those of a competitor. A few more legal victories followed, but now a judge in New York has reversed course.
New Architect February 2003 Amit Asaravala	What Advertisers Want Selecting high-performance ad formats for your site
InternetNews June 22, 2009 Michelle Megna	Yahoo, Google Rev Up New Ad Products Search companies roll out new advertising platforms as the online ad industry malaise continues.
BusinessWeek July 17, 2006 Ben Elgin	Yahoo's Pop-Up Connection Yahoo! Inc. has become one of the spyware industry's main benefactors. Since 2003 the Sunnyvale titan has indirectly supplied ads to - and shared millions of revenue dollars with - Direct Revenue and its rivals.
InternetNews January 30, 2007 Ed Sutherland	Travel Companies, Cingular Settle Adware Case Three online advertisers have to pony up $100,000 and promise to stop using controversial adware as part of a settlement with New York State's Attorney General.
InternetNews July 12, 2005 Susan Kuchinskas	Microsoft Shifting Adware Approach? Is Microsoft hot on Claria or soft on adware? Microsoft has been criticized for changing the ratings of Claria and other adware in its Anti-Spyware product. Experts describe the deceptive practices used by some adware.
InternetNews February 24, 2005 Roy Mark	Claria Exec Joins DHS Privacy Committee Chief privacy officer for adware firm formerly known as Gator is now representative on panel advising in privacy issues.
New Architect October 2002 Christopher Null	Crocodile Tears Newspaper publishers take Gator to court for adding pop-up ads to their websites without their permission.
InternetNews November 6, 2006 Roy Mark	FTC Mulling Next-Gen Tech, Policy Three days of hearings open to consider future Internet regulatory challenges.
BusinessWeek May 21, 2007 Hof & Holahan	Behind Those Web Mergers Marketers want smarter, targeted online ads. That's driving deals.
InternetNews June 30, 2004 Roy Mark	Spyware Sneaking into the Enterprise Not just for consumers anymore, invasive programs are finding comfort in the corporate realm and leaving more than unwanted ads in their wake.
BusinessWeek December 8, 2003 Stephen Baker	Pop-Up Ads Had Better Start Pleasing With the means to block them on the rise, their last hope is to entice, rather than irritate
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InternetNews January 21, 2004 Janis Mara	Interactive Companies Play the Name Game Why change your company's name? Some in the interactive marketing space share their reasoning.
BusinessWeek April 3, 2006 David Kiley	Call It A Sell Phone Cell-phone users may balk at receiving video and advertising on their handsets, but advertisers are ready to spend.
InternetNews January 6, 2004 Zachary Rodgers	Interactive's New Year, Part 2 More luminaries in the online ad sector weigh in on the state of the sector and what 2004 will bring.
BusinessWeek October 4, 2004 Toddi Gutner	What's Lurking in Your PC? Because it's so new and still evolving, many computer users don't understand spyware. Here's a quick tutorial to bring you up to date on this insidious problem.
Knowledge@Wharton August 13, 2003	Darn Those Pop-Up Ads! They're Maddening, But Do They Work? E-commerce experts at Wharton and elsewhere say pop-ups are not universally loathed and irrevocably worthless. But collectively they can indeed be a nuisance.
InternetNews February 16, 2007 Roy Mark	DirectRevenue to Pay Back 'Spyware' Gains Adware distributor DirectRevenue today settled Federal Trade Commission charges of unfair and deceptive trade practices of installing unwanted and unsolicited spyware unto consumers' computers.
InternetNews November 3, 2006 Roy Mark	Zango Settles FTC Adware Charges The controversial adware distributor agrees to pay $3 million and provide consumer consent notices.
BusinessWeek July 17, 2006 Ben Elgin	The Plot To Hijack Your Computer Direct Revenue's swift rise illustrates the intertwining of spyware and mainstream online marketing.
InternetNews April 4, 2006 David Miller	Spitzer Files Spyware Suit New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer is suing an Internet advertising firm he claims surreptitiously installed millions of pop-up ad producing programs on individuals' computers.
InternetNews May 27, 2004 Roy Mark	Yahoo! Beta Testing Anti-Spyware Tool New toolbar plug-in aims to give consumers 'transparency' about what programs are actually on a user's computer.
InternetNews March 26, 2004 Janis Mara	Gates Weighs In On Spyware Issue Microsoft's chairman says 'parasitic' software is turning the Internet into a billboard.
PC World February 2004 Andrew Brandt	Privacy Watch: Gain Extra Protection With Adware Scanner Secrets Put the extra features of Spybot Search & Destroy and Ad-aware to work for you.
InternetNews May 15, 2009 David Needle	Consumers Left in the Dark on Net Privacy Experts may debate whether there's more than meets the eye in online data collection, but they agree that Internet users need education.
InternetNews May 19, 2004 Mara & Miller	Lawsuit Filed Under Utah's Challenged Anti-Spyware Act A retailer files a lawsuit in Utah under that state's new anti-spyware statute, though the law is temporarily blocked by a court order.