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Top News: Who owns the social graph? | Motorola Droid 3 debuts | Smartphone privacy | WaPo jobs section gets hacked

Social Media: Analysis: Facebook video calling versus Google+ Hangouts. Who owns your social graph — you or Facebook? Over 500,000 businesses are   [...]

Top News: LinkedIn, Facebook IPOs | Apple near cloud music deals | Apple tells Senate it does not track locations | Kindle books outsell print versions |

Business Strategies: What LinkedIn means for Facebook IPO. Exclusive: Apple near cloud-music deals. Search: Google launches Inside Search   [...]

Industry Buzz & News: 5/04/10

Search: Google invests in firm that tries to predict the future. Ad Technologies: Consolidation predicted for ad technology sector in 2010. Social Media: Twitter set to   [...]

Industry Buzz & Snippets: 02/16/10

Ad Platforms: Former Havas digital chief wants to simpli.fi ad targeting of online searchers. Online video gets an ad exchange. Search: Google maint  [...]

Industry Buzz & Snippets: 02/12/10

Ad Formats & Technologies: Facebook releases beta version of ad conversion tracking. Yahoo display strategy turns to OPA ad formats in effort to drive premium prices. Scotttrade   [...]

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Industry Buzz & Snippets: 02/08/10

Industry: Google's display ads should top $1 billion. Mobclix strikes deal to enhance targeting on smartphones. Campaigns: Google scores with Paris Super Bowl ad.  [...]

Industry Buzz & Snippets: 01/28/10

Mobile Computing: Mobile ads get a makeover. What the iPad means for online advertising. iPad blurs line between devices. Apple's Tabl  [...]

Is the AdMob-Google Deal at Risk?

Google's $750 million proposal to acquire the mobile ad network AdMob is coming up against objections from both privacy advocates and the US government. Last week, the Federal Trade Commission told Google it was making a second inquiry into the deal, according to a Google blog post.  Putting on its game face, Go  [...]

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Industry Buzz & Snippets: 12/18/09

Campaign: Injecting advertisers into the market for virtual currency. Ford readies single global push for 2011 focus. Email Marketing: SF Chronicle sends holiday retail e-mail, skips content entirely. Web 2.0:   [...]

Twitter and Facebook Targeted in Web Attack

Denial-of-service attacks hit popular social networking sites Twitter, LiveJournal and Facebook on Thursday, which resulted in Twitter being down for at least two hours. For its part, Facebook reported intermittent issues, yet was able to maintain service. Google also   [...]

YHOO Avails Interest Ad Opt-Outs to Mobile Web Users

Yahoo is extending opt-out options for its interest-based ads to users of its mobile web services. Opt-out capabilities will be available to all users of Yahoo's mobile web offering, regardless of mobile type (iPhone, Blackberry, etc). "The mobile privacy policy is easily accessible from all of Yahoo!’s mobile services," wrote Policy Director Deepty Rohatgi in Yahoo's Policy   [...]

Amazon UK Says No to Phorm's Behavioral Ad Probe

In a symbolic stance against its business model, Amazon has stated it will not permit behavioral ad firm Phorm to scan its webpages for targeted ads. UK-based Phorm works directly with ISPs to build profiles of user interests, based on their overall web surfing behavior, and serve relevant ads to them across participating websites. The company suffered hard times last year after a series of   [...]

Facebook Complexity Baffles Older Users

Facebook, which likes to pride itself on the fact that more than half of its users are between 30-55 years old, appears to to alienating this very age group, many of whom use the 'net mainly for emailing and sending forwards (e.g., jokes, pictures). With an active audience of 200-300 million users, Facebook has definitely become a household item. And the fastest growing demographic is t  [...]

Google, CVS Provide Online Access to Prescription Drug History

Google yesterday announced it is partnering up with CVS Pharmacy, one of the largest pharmacy chains in the US, to provide patients with online access to their prescription drug history through Google Health accounts. Google Health allows users to import their medical records from over a dozen pharmacies, medical centers, and health insurance providers, which means they can review their records and stay updated on their health status. As part of the new service, more than 100 mi  [...]

Google Toys with Behavioral Advertising, Keeps Users Apprised

Today Google will unveil revised privacy measures that give users more control over behavioral targeting. When Google serves banner ads on publishers' sites, ads will feature links that explain how and why they were served. Clicking through will lead to information about its behavioral advertising program -- which terraces consumers based on interests in goods or services, reports MediaPost. The pro  [...]

Facebook's Zuckerberg Responds to TOS Freakout

CEO Mark Zuckerberg wrote a blog post late yesterday, responding to user concerns about a recent update to Facebook's Terms of Use (casually labeled "TOS" for "terms of service"). The TOS, changed on February 4, stipulates that Facebook owns all content uploaded onto the site, including material posted by users that shut  [...]

Revised TOS Gives Facebook Perpetual Rights to User Content

This month Facebook revised its Terms of Use, a document it is legally permitted to update at any time without informing users. Users demonstrate tacit acceptance of the Terms by continuous use of the site. The revision grants Facebook complete, perpetual ownership of content up  [...]

SocNets Sign Pact to Protect European Youth

Social networking sites operating in Europe signed a pact on Tuesday, dedicated to tackling the problem of "cyberbullying" and protect the privacy of underage users, reports The Globe and Mail. Hoping to make the internet safer for children, the European Commission (EC) announced that some 17 social networking sites -- including Facebook   [...]

China Knuckles Down Harder on 'Vulgar' Web Content

China expanded its crackdown on "vulgar" online content to 14 additional sites, including Microsoft's MSN, reports Reuters. The ruling Communist Party also accused Google of doing an insufficient job of policing its own search results. Google took significant flak from American users when in 2006 it   [...]

Japan to Purge Google Street View from Its Cities

Japanese lawyers and professors have banded together to ask Google to stop providing street-level images of the country's cities online. Google Street View lets Google Maps users zoom directly to the ground floor of certain cities, providing a photographic view of the area from the perspective of a pedestrian or driver. 12 Japanese cities have been profiled this way, as well as 50 US cities and certain parts of Europe,   [...]