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Top News: Google's cloud storage service | GigaOm buys PaidContent | Groupon's earnings
Cloud Services:
Google near launch of cloud storage service.
Social Media:
Google Social is exploding online.
Skimlinks is the [...]
Posted: Thursday, February 9th 2012
Top News: Pinterest hits 10M monthly uniques | Amazon, Viacom close deal | Yammer closes $50M funding
Social Media:
Pinterest hits 10 million monthly uniques faster than any standalone site ever.
Why Facebook may not succeed in China.
Mobile Marketing:
How HTML5 is [...]
Posted: Wednesday, February 8th 2012
Top News: Super Bowl | Facebook to launch mobile ads | AT&T starts throttling
Super Bowl:
Samsung's Bowl ad claims it can help Apple fanboys break free.
Best Buy Super Bowl ad puts phone, app makers in one place.
Toyota takes to [...]
Posted: Monday, February 6th 2012
Closing Bell: Komen reverse decision after social media onslaught | Google rejects EU request | Malware bouncer
Social Media:
Komen learns power of social media: Facebook, Twitter fueled fury.
Most Facebook users get more from it than they put in, study says.
Legal/Regulatory:
[...]
Posted: Friday, February 3rd 2012
Top News: HuffPo to launch streaming network | Facebook ads | EU targets Google privacy policy
Facebook IPO:
Advertisers' free ride may end on Facebook.
Facebook’s ad business is a $3 billion mystery.
Analysis: A sobering [...]
Posted: Friday, February 3rd 2012
Closing Bell: Facebook files its IPO | Google buys ads to defend privacy | Kinect for Windows apps
Finance:
Facebook files for IPO.
Facebook cites Google+, media coverage among potential risks.
Privacy:
Google [...]
Posted: Wednesday, February 1st 2012
Closing Bell: Facebook to file $5B IPO | Neil Young's digital music endeavor | Ethical iPhone
Finance:
Facebook to file for $5 billion IPO.
Digital Music:
Neil Young building digital music device for downloading.
Business Strategies:
Online petition [...]
Posted: Tuesday, January 31st 2012
Top News: Facebook's lead in display ads | Apple's new retail chief | Email fights back against spam
Online Ad Market:
Facebook builds lead in display ads as its IPO approaches.
Retail/Ecommerce:
Tim Cook taps John Browett, CEO of Dixons, to head his retail empire.
Mobile Computing:
Demand for iPhones in China c [...]
Posted: Tuesday, January 31st 2012
Top News: Super Bowl social media buzz | BlackBerry suffering in Europe | Kindle Fire sales strong
Social Media:
Super Bowl advertisers seek buzz on social media.
Mobile Computing:
BlackBerry under siege in Europe.
Kindle Fire sales [...]
Posted: Monday, January 30th 2012
Another Black Eye for Online Reviews
The New York Times tells of a best-selling product on the Amazon site that had quickly racked up a number of five-star reviews. As it turned out, the manufacturer of the product, which was already heavily discounted in a special offer, gave some customers the chance to review it. In exchange, it refunded their money.
A Crackdown by Regulators [...]
Posted: Friday, January 27th 2012
Top News: Buying online reviews | Twitter's censorship | Apple No.1 smartphone
Mobile Marketing:
Advertisers will spend $2.61 billion on mobile this year.
Ecommerce:
For $2 a star, an online retailer gets 5-star product reviews.
Social Media:
[...]
Posted: Friday, January 27th 2012
Top News: Consumers angry about privacy | Google+ spreads | Celebrity-backed shopping
Privacy:
Consumers in the middle of Google-Facebook battle.
Search:
Google+ spreads to AdSense, will it spread to the whole web?
AdWords finally [...]
Posted: Thursday, January 26th 2012
Closing Bell: Privacy | iPhone to be delivered this summer | Public alerts on Google maps
Privacy:
Should Google’s new privacy policy concern you?
O2 accidentally exposes customers' phone numbers.
Mobile Computing:
Foxconn employee tells us that the next iPhone is ready for production, [...]
Posted: Wednesday, January 25th 2012
Google Combines 70 Privacy Policies into One. User Data Sharing Is Part of the Mix
Google is integrating some 70 separate privacy policies it has for its various products into one policy, the company announced in this blog post. Effective March 1, it will roll out a new main privacy policy that covers the majority of its products and explains what information its collects, and how that information is used, in a—as Google explains--much more readable way.
[...]
Posted: Wednesday, January 25th 2012
Top News: Apple results | EU privacy laws have steep fines | Facebook trading
Business News:
Stellar Apple results point to a good year ahead.
Legal/Regulatory:
EU commissioner unleashes draft data protection bill.
Companies face [...]
Posted: Wednesday, January 25th 2012
Top News: Google updates name policy | Twitter acqires Dasient | Android favored by developers
Social Media:
Google+ updates real name policy to allow "alternate names".
YouTube sees 60 hours of video uploaded a minute.
Twitter acqu [...]
Posted: Tuesday, January 24th 2012
Closing Bell: Don't Be Evil search tool | Digital music grows worldwide | R
Search:
Facebook, Twitter devs release 'Don't Be Evil' Tool for Google Search.
Digital Music:
Online music grows worldwide but music studios still fret about pirates.
[...]
Posted: Monday, January 23rd 2012
DAA Launches 'Your AdChoices' Campaign
Hoping to convince consumers—as well as Congress--about the benefits of targeted advertising, the Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA), a coalition of media and marketing trade associations, has launched the 'Your AdChoices' public education campaign.
The campaign is also educating consumers on how to take greater control of their privacy.
Created pro bono by the Salt Lake City office of MRM, a McCann Worldgroup company, the 'Your AdCh [...]
Posted: Friday, January 20th 2012
What We Missed in the SOPA Blackout
The numerous sites going dark on Wednesday to protest the House of Representatives’ Stop Online Piracy Act and its sister legislation in the Senate, the Protect I.P. Act, has caused legislators to rethink their positions. These bills, in their current incarnations, are now very unlikely to pass, writes the New York Times.
The Times also took note that Wednesday’s blackout was the first time so many W [...]
Posted: Thursday, January 19th 2012
Top News: comScore and display ads service | AdWords ad extensions | More on SOPA
Online Ad Industry:
comScore Study: A third of ad impressions are never seen.
Social Media:
Foursquare now displays pricing menus powered by SinglePlatform.
Search:
[...]
Posted: Thursday, January 19th 2012
Closing Bell: SOPA | Stopping Google Search Plus Your World | LightSquared accuses government
Legal/Regulatory:
Web protests piracy bills, and senators change course.
LightSquared accuses GPS makers, government of rigging tests.
Search:
How to [...]
Posted: Wednesday, January 18th 2012
Top News: SOPA blackout | Apple's textbook push | iPad 3 launch
Legal/Regulatory:
SOPA anti-piracy bill markup to resume next month, lawmaker says.
Internet blackout against U.S. law fails to enlist big sites.
Business Strategies:
Ap [...]
Posted: Wednesday, January 18th 2012
Closing Bell: Retreat on SOPA | RIM pushes for Samsung sale | Koobface virus
Legal/Regulatory:
On SOPA and PIPA, MPAA and Chamber strike conciliatory note.
SOPA stalling as opposition grows.
Mobile Computing:
Research In Motion pushing for sale [...]
Posted: Tuesday, January 17th 2012
Top News: Google privacy ad blitz | Apple textbook tools | Look who's crowdsourcing
Privacy:
Google tackles online privacy in unusual ad blitz.
Signs of What's to Come:
Apple to announce tools, platform to 'digitally destroy' textbook publishing.
Big firms [...]
Posted: Tuesday, January 17th 2012
Political, PR and Practical Considerations to SOPA
Reddit and a growing number of other sites including gaming company Destructoid and Red 5 Studios, are promising to go dark on January 18, to protest the twin online bills in Congress, the Stop Online Piracy Act and the Protect IP Act.
Other sites may join in, namely Wikipedia, provided that enough of its contributors agree to a black out.
Unbending Politicians
Yet it does not appear that legislators who wrote the bills are in any mind to back down. Repub [...]
Posted: Friday, January 13th 2012