The Word of Mouth Marketing Association is holding a conference July 13 called “Measuring Word of Mouth.”

H.J. Heinz Company, of Heinz Ketchup fame, has agreed to buy Groupe Danone, which makes HP and Lea & Perrins sauces. The deal is for about $855 million in cash.

Last week, Intel announced that it has developed chip technology designed to support current Wi-Fi standards as well as projected ones.

Google has a list of advanced operators popular among the SEO community. However, most web site owners are not aware of these, so I will take the time to explain what they are and how they work.

Light sweet crude prices on the July contract continued barrel through price records hitting $59.87 and then closing at $59.37 in trades on Monday. $60 oil seems likely for tomorrow’s trading, as U.S. consumers show no signs of decreasing consumption.

The Dolan Family Group, which controls Cablevision, has proposed to take the company private in a deal valued at $33.50 per share or $7.9 billion.

With budgets getting tighter and competition getting fiercer, many employees find themselves forced to wear many hats. Too often, the heavy workload brought about by smaller staff sizes and multiple demands means that it is more and more difficult for employees to juggle conflicting expectations. Many people find themselves overworked and stressed to the limit on the job.

When it comes to the question of allowing cellphone calls on flights, respondents to a survey just say no.

The entertainment and media company picks up Neopets Inc for a deal rumored to be worth $160 million USD.

Google’s “Summer of Code” has been such a popular program that Google has been forced to double the funding for the program to accept 400 students, reports Slashdot.

InternetSupervision.com has put together a new service for its customers that pauses their Google, Overture or 7Search ad campaign while their website is down.

Traditionally, the retail industry has lagged behind other industries in adopting new technologies, and this holds true in its acceptance of BI technology.

Thousands have joined the search for 11-year-old Boy Scout Brennan Hawkins, who went missing Friday in the mountains of Utah. His fate unknown, officials nurture a hope that the boy stayed clear of nearby Bear River where rapids and deep waters can be treacherous.

Alzheimer’s researchers are saying that juice, wine, exercise, and healthy gums may help to prevent the dreaded dementia that affects 4.5 million elderly Americans and climbing.

Wayne Hurlbert at Blog Business World is hosting this week’s Carnival of the Capitalists, the weekly aggregation of links to posts by a wide range of different bloggers that provides a unique focus on them for further developing conversations.

Continuing his commitment to providing the US troops in Iraq the means to communicate with loved ones, Drew Olanoff has prepared another service that will offer the necessary tools to run a weblog.

British researchers for the Redmond-based software and game console maker discussed the company’s work on a superfast peer to peer sharing system.

In our increasingly global society, many companies cannot afford to live with the illusion that their domestic markets will always be strong.

I’ve just finalised a revised list of blog networks and posted it here at The Blog Herald for those interested, but I thought I might share a few more thoughts on the subject.

An agreement between Microsoft’s ninemsn presence and telecom company Optus for content delivery has been made.

Notes from the Collaborative Technologies Conference in NYC, mirrored in the wiki, from a talk I’ve heard before by Thomas Malone, the author of The Future of Work — but also with a quick video conference with Jimmy Wales while talking about Wikipedia.

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