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Article | 22/05/2013 Chinese rival bolsters search engine against Baidu with Alibaba partnership
China's Baidu has long dominated the country's search market. But a local rival to the company is bolstering its own search services with the help of ...
Article | 9/05/2013 YouTube rolls out paid subscription channels
Not everything on YouTube is free any more. The video-sharing website will now charge users a monthly fee to view certain content offered through subs...
Article | 8/05/2013 Consumer service lawsuit looms for Google in Germany
A lawsuit against Google's customer service practices in Germany is looming after the company declined to sign a document promising German consumer or...
Article | 25/04/2013 EU publishes Google antitrust remedy proposals
Google's rivals have been given one month to assess the search giant's proposed remedies, the European Commission announced Thursday.
Article | 24/04/2013 Senator rips self-regulatory do-not-track efforts
The U.S. online advertising industry has not lived up to a promise to stop the online tracking of Internet users who ask advertisers to do so, a senio...
Article | 19/04/2013 Survey: Internet users like targeted ads, free content
Internet users overwhelmingly enjoy free Web content supported by advertising, and they'd rather see advertisements targeted toward their interests th...
Article | 18/04/2013 Google gets consumer service ultimatum from German consumer groups
Google received an ultimatum Thursday from German consumer organizations that want it to start answering questions from its users via email.
Article | 15/04/2013 Money can't buy privacy in Google Play store, study shows
Paying for an app in Google's online store, Google Play, will banish nagging in-app ads, but it won't dam the flow of personal information from your p...
Article | 10/04/2013 Facebook, Pandora and Twitter seize mobile ad display market
An IDC study has found sweeping changes in how mobile display advertisements are sold, with Facebook, Pandora and Twitter successfully wresting away c...
Article | 9/04/2013 Mobile phone apps view private data more than necessary, says French study
Mobile phone apps are accessing users' private data and transmitting it to remote servers far more than appears strictly necessary, while users have i...
Article | 20/03/2013 Click fraud botnet defrauds advertisers up to $6 million
An advertising analytics company said it has discovered a botnet that generates upwards of US$6 million per month by generating bogus clicks on displa...
Article | 19/03/2013 Twitter gives small businesses more advertising options
Twitter is beefing up its self-service ad platform to give smaller businesses more targeting and analytics tools to reach potential customers on the s...
Article | 14/03/2013 Google removes ad-blocking software from Play store
Google has removed some programs from its Play store that block web advertisements, contending the applications violate its rules by interfering with ...
Article | 12/03/2013 SXSW 2013: No new Twitter, but marketing and hardware stand out
South by Southwest Interactive is best known as the technology festival that put such social networking mainstays as Twitter and Foursquare on the map...
Article | 1/03/2013 Tech groups question new do-not-track bill
New legislation in the U.S. Senate that would allow Internet users to tell companies to stop tracking them is unnecessary and could slow e-commerce gr...