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0	Court Says Anti-Malware Software Maker Immune From Lawsuit From Zango Infamous adware maker Zango may finally be dead, but its lawsuits live on. You may recall a few years back Zango sued security software maker... Source: techdirt.com Date: Jun 26, 2009 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	Surreptitious Adware Company Zango Finally Shuts Down Remember back in the days of surreptitiously installed adware/spyware? For the most part, those days are gone, driven out by better security, FTC... Source: techdirt.com Date: Apr 22, 2009 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	Zango Shuts Down, Sells Assets Bellevue, WA-based Zango, an adware maker that refocused its business on a toolbar gaming system last year, has officially closed down, says... Source: xconomy.com (Company Blog) Date: Apr 22, 2009 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	Another Startup Bites the Dust; Zango Closes Shop; Investors Lose Tens of Millions of Dollars Zango just went kaput, 10 years after launching to provide users with free downloads of games, music and other content in exchange for the ability to... Source: pehub.com Date: Apr 21, 2009 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	WARNING: Twitter Phishing Attack Underway If you get a Twitter direct message today reading: “check out this funny blog about you”, we advise you don’t. The link leads to a fake Twitter login... Source: mashable.com Date: Jan 3, 2009 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	Tel Aviv Office Closing Today, Zango announced plans to close its Tel Aviv office. This difficult decision is a direct result of the current global economic environment... Source: zango.com (Company Blog) Date: Dec 15, 2008 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	Zango's Latest Trick: Pitching Fake Batman MMORPG To Get People To Download Adware We've talked about Zango's continued claims that it's a changed company from the one that paid huge fines for tricking people into downloading its... Source: techdirt.com Date: Sep 10, 2008 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
2	Zango May Have Worked Things Out With The FTC, But What About The MPAA? We've pointed out for years the various questionable activities performed by adware firm Zango (or one of its earlier incarnations). The company has... Source: techdirt.com Date: Aug 19, 2008 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	Zango Named Industry Standard Innovation 100 Awards Finalist Earlier this month, Zango was nominated for The Industry Standard Innovation 100 Awards, a community-driven awards program that showcases the... Source: zango.com (Company Blog) Date: Aug 11, 2008 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	BBC “Direct Marketing” Program Recently, we were informed by the BBC (British Broadcasting Company) of an upcoming program “looking at direct marketing to the UK.” The program,... Source: zango.com (Company Blog) Date: Aug 8, 2008 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
4	Zango Tries To Reinvent Itself (Again); Lays Off A Bunch Of Employees If you've heard of the company Zango, it's probably for bad reasons. Zango is a company that was created when some separate adware firms merged and... Source: techdirt.com Date: Jun 18, 2008 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	Zango.com Wins SEOmoz 2008 Web 2.0 Award SEOmoz recently scoured the Web to compile its Web 2.0 Awards. The results include winners and rankings across 41 categories. Zango.com earned the 1st... Source: zango.com (Company Blog) Date: Jun 9, 2008 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	Close Butt... Not Quite Apparently so worked up by the thumbnail of the "Nice But" video (does the spelling suggest where this is going?) – part of Ben Edelman’s "research"... Source: zango.com (Company Blog) Date: May 28, 2008 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	Headline Promises ‘Debunking,’ But Article Delivers Only ‘Bunk’ Taking a Memorial Day weekend break from his day job as "an assistant professor at the Harvard Business School in the Negotiation, Organizations &... Source: zango.com (Company Blog) Date: May 28, 2008 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	Trend Micro Update After it conducted additional research into the Storm ‘AdPack’ exploit that it first blogged about last Thursday (May 15), Trend Micro has confirmed... Source: zango.com (Company Blog) Date: May 21, 2008 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	23rd Annual CODie Award Winners Announced Last night, the 23rd Annual CODiE Award winners were announced. Zango.com was one of four finalists for the Best Video Content Aggregation Service.... Source: zango.com (Company Blog) Date: May 21, 2008 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	Trend Micro Blog Entry -- UPDATE Trend Micro and Zango are in contact and are working together to understand the situation raised in the Trend Micro blog entry originally posted last... Source: zango.com (Company Blog) Date: May 16, 2008 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	Trend Micro Blog Entry A blog entry from Trend Micro implies that Zango is “possibly in cahoots” with Storm. To which we respond: Seriously? (And who uses phrases like... Source: zango.com (Company Blog) Date: May 16, 2008 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year Finalist This week Ernst & Young announced that Zango Founder and CEO Keith Smith, is a finalist for the 2008 Entrepreneur Of The Year Award in the Pacific... Source: zango.com (Company Blog) Date: May 9, 2008 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	What If Sneaky Adware Died And No One Noticed? Eric Goldman has a fascinating post, pointing out that the era of sneaky adware seems to be pretty much over. For quite some time, one of the biggest... Source: techdirt.com Date: May 2, 2008 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0