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That's the value a $200 million venture investment led by Kleiner Perkins this week implies. But that means Twitter would have a price-to-sales ratio of 840 compared to Facebook's 26 -- or Google's 8.7. And Twitter's growth may be stalling.

In another setback on employment, initial jobless claims jumped a larger than anticipated 20,000 to 457,000, the Labor Department announced Thursday. Economists had predicted initial jobless claims would total 443,000.

Be wary of online ads offering free trials for Acai diet pills, work-at-home jobs or teeth whiteners. They're too good to be true, says the Better Business Bureau. The BBB has received thousands of complaints from consumers who signed up for free trial offers and then got stuck with recurring...

Online advertisers may see up to a 78% price increase in paid-search rates once Yahoo and Microsoft wrap up their search alliance. Cost-per-click will likely rise sharply as advertisers shift to the single Bing search platform.

Initial jobless claims continue to trend in the wrong direction: They rose 13,000 to 472,000 last week, the Labor Department said, and are now up 3.5% since January. The more-telling four-week moving average also rose, by 3,250 to 466,500.

The New York Times will soon charge, AT&T is ceasing unlimited data usage for iPhones and not all video will be free on Hulu. It's slowly sinking in that even online, free can't compete with paid and unlimited can't compete with tiered. It's the end of an era.

For the first time, Internet advertising sales in the United Kingdom during the first half of 2009 eclipsed those of television ad sales, according to a new study from the Internet Advertising Bureau and PricewaterhouseCoopers. Internet ad sales increased by 4.6 percent to £1.75 billion, or...

I wrote earlier about Craig's List, the down-and-dirty internet classifieds site that has grown into the dominant player in the online flea-market market. Although it is now a for-profit enterprise, it still retains many of the trappings (DOS-like trappings) of a seat-of-your-pants site. If you...