forecasts

In a story discussing Google's forays into other methods of getting ads to users, Google's top sales executive sees $6.5 billion in advertising revenue for the search advertising company in 2006.

Yahoo! released its fourth quarter financial results today, showing that though the Internet media giant had a healthy surge in net profit for the period, the company's overall performance fell slightly short of Wall Street analysts expectations.

JupiterResearch released their projections for the coming holiday season and they look promising. The report, "Holiday 2005 Forecast: Addressing The Impact of Macro-Economic Factors on Holiday Online Retail Sales," examines not only promised higher percentages of sales but also some problems for the coming holiday season.

Your company has made a sizeable investment in the training, support, expenses, salaries and benefits of sales team members. You've also invested in a contact management or SFA application to track and forecast your sales cycle - but is the application actually making your sales team more effective?

The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development released a report today reducing its 2005 economic growth forecast for the industrialized world to 2.6% from 2.9%.