Amazon Wages War on Apple: New HD Kindles Take Aim at iPad
At a Thursday event held in a Santa Monica airplane hangar, Amazon.com Inc. unveiled its new line of Kindle Fire HD tablets. Although they will...
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Google Awarded Patent For Multi-User Face Unlock
On Wednesday, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office granted Google a patent that allows one or more users to log in to a computing device...
Zuckerberg to Hold Facebook Stock for a Year
On Tuesday afternoon, Facebook’s anemic stock saw a small boost after a Facebook regulatory filing announced that CEO Mark Zuckerberg will not sell his shares...
Google Books Judge Refuses to Delay Case
Shortly after Google began digitally scanning millions of books in 2004, the Authors Guild and various other copyright holders filed a class-action lawsuit against the...
Analysts Slash Facebook’s Projected Earnings by $1 Billion
Ever since Facebook’s long-awaited IPO, the social media giant has disappointed investors and faced a seemingly never-ending wave of negative PR. Now, just as things...
Google Plus Launches New Business Features
On Wednesday, Google unveiled a brand new set of tools for business customers that combines popular features from Google+ with the functionality of Google Apps....
Facebook Publishing Users’ Private Location Data
Many Facebook users have noticed the recent change where some posts are now displaying the location of the user who submitted the post. This map...
CNN and Facebook Launch New Election Insights Website
In early July, CNN and Facebook announced a new election year partnership that would provide voters and political junkies with metrics based on real-time conversations...
Jury Finds Samsung Guilty of Patent Infringement
On late Friday afternoon, a juryin a San Jose federal courtroom handed Apple a major legal victory in a landmark patent trial. The jurors, who...
Google Job Listing Reveals Plan to Protect Users’ Privacy
Recently, a Google job posting was discovered that reveals the world’s leading search engine is planning on creating a ‘Red Team’ to protect users’ privacy....
Facebook Messages Testing Recent Design Overhaul
Yesterday, Facebook announced a new design for Facebook Messages that features a new dual-pane layout and several other new features. The new design, which strongly...
Early Facebook Investor Sheds Majority of Company Stock
According to a regulatory filing on Monday, former PayPal CEO and early Facebook investor and board member Peter Thiel cashed out just under $400 million...
Judge Rejects Google’s Paid Journalist Disclosure
In early August, Judge William Alsup, who is presiding over the courtroom battle between Google and Oracle, ordered both companies to provide legal disclosures of...
Judge Rejects the Proposed Facebook Lawsuit Settlement
Last year, a class-action lawsuit was filed against Facebook related to the social network’s non-consensual use of users’ inadvertent endorsements. The lawsuit, which specifically targets...
ComScore Study: Digital Inventory Must be Validated
Recently, comScore released a whitepaper that measured the impact of viewable impressions on digital advertising. The study, which analyzed 18 different advertising campaigns with 12 major...
Twitter Co-Founders Launch New Content & Blog Platform
Earlier this week Twitter co-founders Biz Stone and Evan Williams unveiled Medium, a platform that takes photos and text submitted by users and turns that...
Facebook Problems Continue: Lock-Up Period Set to Expire
On May 18th, Facebook held the biggest initial public offering (IPO) in history. The stock, which had a peak market capitalization in excess of $104...
Google+ Launches Vanity URL Feature for Select Users
On Monday afternoon, Google announced that it had launched a custom URL feature for a select few Google+ profiles and pages. The change, which was...
Google Algorithm Update: Search Engine to Penalize Sites Accused of Copyright Infringement
In a recent announcement, Google stated that they plan to begin penalizing websites that receive a high number of valid copyright removal notices. On Friday...
Facebook Testing New Postcard Sending Feature
According to recent reports, Facebook is testing a new feature that will allow users to easily turn Facebook photos into printed postcards. The new feature,...
Case Update: Oracle & Google Must Disclose Paid Relationships with Journalists
On Tuesday afternoon, the courtroom battle between Google and Oracle took yet another unexpected turn. U.S. District Judge William Alsup indicated that he is “concerned”...
Google Maps Launches Real-Time Traffic in 130 New Cities
Although Google Maps initially launched its live traffic feature in 2008, until recently the program was limited to larger metropolitan areas. However, yesterday Google launched...
Apple Co-Founder Wozniak Believes Cloud Computing is a Brewing Storm
Steve Wozniak, the co-founder of Apple, recently told an audience that he believes our dependence on the cloud is going to result in “horrible problems”...
AdWords Votes for Cash: New Congressional District Targeting Feature
On Friday, Google announced the new AdWords Congressional District targeting feature. The new feature, which is already live, allows Congressional candidates to easily launch search,...
Facebook Troubles: Low Earnings, Fake Users, & Click Fraud
Since Facebook went public three months ago, the social media giant’s stock price has nearly been cut in half. Unfortunately, investors and analysts are likely...
Google Spends $400 Million to Purchase Social Marketing Startup Wildfire
Although social media companies are still struggling to figure out how to monetize users, Google recently entered the crowded space by acquiring the advertising startup...
Olympic Twitter Debacle: Journalist’s Account Restored
After having his Twitter account suspended on Sunday for allegedly violating Twitter’s privacy policy, The Independent’s Guy Adams’ Twitter account has been reinstated. Adams’ infamous...
Twitter Censorship: Journalist’s Twitter Account Suspended
Guy Adams, an LA-based writer for Great Britain’s national newspaper The Independent, had his Twitter account suspended on Sunday after tweeting out the e-mail address...
Broken Promise: Google Retained Street View Data
On Friday, Google sent a letter to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) admitting that they had broken their 2010 promise to delete certain Street View...
Google Webmaster Tools Add Advanced Site Indexation Information
Recently, Google announced the addition of indexation data within Webmaster Tools. To see the newly revealed indexation information, simply log in to your Google Webmaster...