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LA JOLLA, Calif., April 18, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Bear Naked, the natural food company for the everyday adventurer, today announced its 100% Pure & Natural Soft-Baked Granola Cookies were awarded the 2012 Better Homes and Gardens Best New Product Award in the cookie category. The winners were determined based on an analysis of the BrandSpark International/Better Homes and Gardens American Shopper Study that surveyed more than 66,000 independent consumers who voted in 67...

Bevo Media has recently introduced fingerprint tracking technology to the performance marketing industry. The Fingerprint Tracking technology has proven to be 17-20% more accurate than traditional tracking methods. This new technology will increase Ad revenue by billions of dollars within the industry. (PRWEB) April 17, 2012 Bevo Media has recently introduced fingerprint tracking technology to the affiliate industry. Fingerprint tracking is a new technology in the online advertising world...

HomeFree, LLC today announced that HomeFree cookies have been selected as the About.com 2012 Readers' Choice Award winner for best allergy friendly sweets. Now in its fifth year, the About.com Readers' Choice Awards honor the best products, features and services across more than a dozen categories, ranging from technology to hobbies to parenting and more, as selected by its readers... HomeFree was started by Jill Robbins, a clinical psychologist and mom to a child with food...

Yahoo announced Thursday that they will start offering a "Do Not Track" feature on all their associated websites this summer. The company said they will "provide a simple step for consumers to express their ad-targeting preferences to Yahoo." “With this new feature, Yahoo! continues its leadership in privacy innovation while continuing to create the free online services consumers demand that are made possible through advertising,” Yahoo wrote in a release. The Federal Trade...

SYRACUSE, N.Y., March 29, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- BrandYourself.com, the only do-it-yourself platform that helps people take control of their own search results, announced today it has surpassed 10,000 users in under 14 days since launching the product on March 9. Hundreds of users have also converted into paying premium members, exceeding the company's growth projections by more than five times. To recognize the milestone, CEO Patrick Ambron has pledged to honor the 10,000th user--and...

THE HAGUE, Netherlands, March 26, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- To target its customers' online advertising efficiently, Netherlands-based startup Crumbtag has adopted Windows Azure, a cloud-based platform that provides the firm with cost-effective processing power and agile scalability. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20000822/MSFTLOGO) Crumbtag had a novel idea for Internet ad placement that involved analyzing Web visitor behavior in real time, but this operation required...

Google, who last month admitted to bypassing the privacy setting of Apple's Safari Web browser, has pledged to cooperate with American and European probes into their actions, according to UPI reports published on Saturday. According to the wire service's reports, the Mountain View, California-based tech giant could be facing "steep fines" for cookies that "circumvented firewalls" in order to "allow the company to track a user's online activities," including the placement of a button that...

Says FTC Action Needed to Stop Google Engineers Playing 'Fast and Loose' With Consumers' Private Information SANTA MONICA, Calif., March 16, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Consumer Watchdog welcomed reports today confirming that the Federal Trade Commission and European regulators are investigating Google for violating the online privacy choices of consumers using the Safari web browser on Apple computers, iPhones and iPads. In a letter last month, Consumer Watchdog said that...

Planning your diet won't really help you gain self-control unless you're feeling good about your weight in the first place, according to a new study in the Journal of Consumer Research. And the same goes for saving money. "Although planning tends to aid subsequent self-control for those who are in good standing with respect to their long-term goal, those who perceive themselves to be in poor goal standing are found to exert less self-control after planning than in the absence of planning,"...

SHERMAN, Conn., March 8, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- PRIVATE WiFi, a new and innovative company in the security software market, has recently published important information concerning vulnerabilities recently found in SSL, the technology behind HTTPS (Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure). Retailers, banks, and other online retailers use secure websites (HTTPS) to provide secure transactions. These websites have "https" in their URLs and a small lock symbol next to them. SSL, or Secure...