Virtual worlds expect to thrive as the economy slows.

There's big money in counterfeiting name-brand goods. Sales of knockoff products over the internet climbed to nearly $120 billion in 2007, up from $84 billion the previous year, estimated MarkMonitor, an online protection firm that works with eBay and other online auction houses to shut counterfeiters down.

Customers are cutting back and scrutinizing their budgets. That's the reality facing small-business owners today. An October survey by the PNC Financial Services Group PNC shows growing pessimism among small- and midsize business owners and decision-makers, much of it tied to unstable energy prices, a credit squeeze and slowing sales.

When does an iReport give CNN's credibility a black eye? When its citizen "journalism" about a Steve Jobs heart attack turns out to be phony. It takes a lot during this Autumn of the Economic Meltdown for an individual company's stock woes to break out from the pack, but an Oct. 3 iReport on CNN.com claiming that Apple's CEO had been rushed to a hospital after suffering a serious heart attack did the trick.

Spending a couple million dollars doesn't guarantee commercial success.

It's the final piece of the Panama pie. Will profit follow? And how quickly?

U.S. campaign is making a dent in offshore operations and folding more than a few hands of online Texas Holdem.

IAB (Interactive Advertising Bureau) released their internet Advertising Report for the first half of 2008 this week. It shows online advertising spending increased 15.2% in the first half of...

A few weeks ago, I spoke at the BlogWorld Expo conference in Las Vegas about hiring bloggers. I was on a panel titled "How to Hire a Professional blogger...

Michael Miller, author of "YouTube for Business: Online Video Marketing for Any Business," offers tips on how to take advantage of free advertising to millions of avid viewers.