We want them to focus on customers and business, but they have to go to London.

We think (acquiring Whistle) is a very important acceleration of our focus of bringing e-business to small businesses around the world.

So even if we have a very strong season for Internet sales, it doesn't necessarily signal a strong holiday season .

Search engines need to better educate marketers and provide greater transparency into their methods. If they say that a certain percentage of clicks are fraudulent or if they offer a refund to marketers on some clicks, the engines will best serve marketers and agencies by being more open about how they come to such conclusions.

[He was convicted in June 2000 of criminal solicitation. He served two years in prison, where he reportedly struck a friendship with] Son of Sam ... a very, very nice, friendly man, but a little overweight.

This year has been very strong for the e-commerce industry. Every indicator in this space, from online sales, broadband growth and domain registration is up. It's not surprising that individuals, small businesses and even the bigger brick-and-mortar retailers who didn't have an online presence before now have a Web site.