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MarketingSherpa has announced an ‘Email Marketing Summit 2006’, to be held on April 20-21, in Chicago. 350 email marketing peers have already registered for the summit which will include 21 real life case studies. Those who register by March 31st will get a $100 discount and need to pay $1,295. [Read more]  [Read more]

Symantec has warned of Hotmatom and Maniccum IM worms. The worms spread on MSN and AOL IM networks and delete files. [Read more]  [Read more]

Yahoo is going to make interfaces to Yahoo Photos and Yahoo Shopping available to independent developers. Through the APIs, independent developers can create applications that tag, organize, edit and upload information to the Yahoo services. [Read more]  [Read more]

Six Apart has launched 2 new blogging software and services, TypePad Business Class and Movable Type Enterprise. TypePad Business Class is a hosted service that allows companies to create and manage multiple blogs. Movable Type Enterprise, which was announced for the Japanese market, is a server-based blogging platform used behind a company’s... [Read more]

Local paid search will hit $1 billion in 2006, according to a report by Borrell Associates. Smaller businesses are going to double their expenditure in 2006. [Read more]  [Read more]

InterChange has launched LocalConnect in its Local.com website. LocalConnect is a private label local search engine where regional websites and publishers can provide local search on their websites. [Read more]  [Read more]

Hitwise has acquired HitDynamics. Hitwise plans to integrate HitDynamics’s technology into its online competitive intelligence research. [Read more]  [Read more]

26% of internet users in the US received opt-in commercial emails via yahoo, according to the results of a poll by Lyris. 21% received via Hotmail and 13% via AOL. [Read more]  [Read more]

Silverpop has partnered with 4 web analytics firms, Coremetrics, Omniture, WebSideStory and WebTrends. Silverpop has released a white paper on “Incorporating Web Analytics into Email Marketing: Five Quick-Start Tactics for Marketers”. [Read more]  [Read more]

Skype has launched Skype for Business. Skype for Business is a solution designed to manage communications, productivity and cost reduction for small businesses. [Read more]  [Read more]

Google has acquired Writely. Writely is an online word processing service which allows users to store and edit text documents online. [Read more]  [Read more]

Google has launched demographic site targeting for AdWords site-targeted campaigns. It allows marketers to choose audiences from its contextual network site. [Read more]  [Read more]