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For many of us that spend a good portion of our day-to-day lives online, the idea that people actually buy products from spam messages they receive in their inboxes seems laughable. However, new research from security company Marshal suggests quite the contrary.The Results

Fantasy sports are a billion-plus per year industry, which seems to have just dawned on Major League Baseball (MLB) execs. Fantasy sports, specifically fantasy baseball seem to be as popular as ever even though they've been around for something like twenty-five years according to the LA Times.

Google takes in nearly 77% of the total search advertising spend, as of Q4 2007, and raked in 97% of all ad spend increases, according to a study by Efficient Frontier. Despite Nielsen's recent report that Google search share had slightly decreased, numbers like these on the advertising revenue side could mean good things for a flagging Google stock price.

All things being equal, who would you ask for money: the insanely rich or the average citizen?  Most people would go to the first group, and in doing so, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has knocked at Google’s door.

Stories about growth in Asia tend to involve China - it’s hard to ignore 1.3 billion potential users.  But there are other countries in the region, and in one of them - Singapore - Hitwise’s Sandra Hanchard has recorded some impressive growth.

MySpace has been the hub of Music 2.0 promotion for more than a year, but recently Facebook has been stealing the social networking spotlight and the new music industry is following.

Your average news bulletin may say something about Corporation X partnering with sites Y and Z, and your average response may be a shrug - X, Y, and Z often represent companies you’ve never heard of.  But in this case, Vodafone has sealed a deal with Google, YouTube, eBay, and MySpace.

Before today, I don’t think I’d ever heard of the British National Party - guess I need to brush up on my racist, far-right organizations.  But it would seem that Vodafone and five other major corporations know the name, and they pulled out of deals with Facebook after their ads were placed on the BNP’s profile page.