Compare that with the Trojan Horse strategies of rivals Claria (once known as Gator) and WhenU: Their software is often embedded in games or screen savers that many people download unknowingly. (The companies insist they give fair warning of what you're downloading in their click-on licenses.) "No need to be obnoxious, " says Keith Smith, 33, who founded 180 in 1999.
As well as mining bitcoins, PCs enrolled in ZeroAccess were also being used to poison search results - to cause users to unwittingly click on booby-trapped web pages - or fraudulently click on adverts to generate revenue.
While the proposition lost on election day (by only 400, 000 votes), the initiative staged an impressive social media campaign, trending 4 times on Twitter in the U.S. and receiving more than 2 million click-throughs on Facebook from Californians aged 18 and over.
We eventually got to the Facebook Java app hidden inside the Applications folder -- apparently right-click on the D-pad should launch it but we had no luck with that.
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The move echoes a similar confirmed-click format on text ads instituted several years ago.
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Indeed, the click-through rate on Facebook ads in the U.S. almost doubled from the second quarter.
However, if the problem persists, right-click on the embedded player and select 'Copy this error message'.
That ad spending was narrowly targeted, mostly invested in pay-per-click ads on sites like Google and Yahoo.
Google's share price tumbled after it posted a decrease in revenue from click-through advertising on its sites.
The chart below shows average click-through rates on links shared on Facebook by hour and day of week.
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Willing strangers--could be a 12-year-old, could be an expert, you'll never know--click on the questions and provide answers for free.
The advertiser saw a click-through rate on the linking banner ad of 1.3%, which it says, is a higher rate than its standard banner ad.
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And, even if you haven't opted to do so, you can always right-click on a picture or video, choose "Open with" and use the traditional viewers.
It's just... the internet is an amazing thing, and everybody wants it everywhere -- if for anything just for e-commerce so I can just one-click something on Amazon on my damn phone.
The Yahoo machine could get only more powerful as high-speed broadband services expand and it combines the "rich media" of TV spots with the instant interactivity of point-and-click on the Web.
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Moving directly against scan-and-scram, Best Buy began a relationship with Red Laser, the company behind the mobile app that best enables showrooming: the app now lets Best Buy offer coupons and one-click ordering on Bestbuy.com to customers already in the store.
So whilst click-through rates on emails and website hits are both free to measure and very seductive, it takes time and money to measure the value of your brand (many big PLCs value these on their balance sheet as goodwill running into several hundred million).
If you really, madly, deeply want to edit your docs, there's one way to do it -- click on the share button on the top right corner and choose "Open in Safari" to pull up the Google Drive web app that's been available on iDevices since the service launched.
For Google, whose revenue mainly comes from pay-per-click ads, a focus on in-stream ads would be a new tactic.
And if you need the how-to instructions, click on the building guide mode - top left, third button - and it will give you the option to watch the item being built or alternatively you can generate a step-by-step building guide which you can then print out.
The review notes that all of the media player and internet controls are the same as the aforementioned device (Cover Flow, lists, zooming, etc.), though the touch allows you to "double-click" the button on the front of the device to bring up a music control-panel, no matter what application you're in.
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He was the first to recognize that a large portion of mobile advertising solutions prevalent today are based on click-based online display banners.
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Look out the window and you see the real world -- click a button on your iPad app and you can open the sunroof to see more of the same.
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As a beginner, you'll want to familiarize yourself with Delete first, as that's what you need to select things -- to click on them with your eyes, if you will.
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"There's an entire industry to create, from distributing interactive ads to billing to getting product to the people who point and click on cubic-zirconium jewelry they've got to have, " he says, referring to the burgeoning TV home-shopping industry.
"That's a technique commonly used in a normal marketing email communications, but looks very out of place in an email about a security breach which tries to hammer home the point to 'Never click on reset-password requests in emails, " he said.
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