Facebook Refuses to Remove Fan Pages for Colorado Killer
In the days following the tragic Aurora, Colorado killings, approximately 30 Facebook pages that pay tribute to the killer have appeared. One of the pages,...
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Google Presents Strong Case for Online Political Advertisements [Infographic]
Although the 2012 presidential candidates are spending unprecedented amounts on television advertisements, the vast majority of voters can now be reached through other more effective...
Aggressive EU Regulators Could Fine Google $3.8 Billion
Recently, Eric Schmidt contacted the European Union Competition Commissioner, Joaquin Almunia, to propose a compromise to avoid the pending antitrust litigation. Although the letter was...
Consumers Distrustful of Facebook Ad Targeting
Placecast, a location-based marketing company, recently surveyed 2,262 U.S. adults to determine consumer sentiment with regards to how companies use consumers’ personal data to target...
Facebook Testing Sponsored Results Advertising Option
According to a recent TechCrunch article, Facebook has begun testing a new type of advertisement called “Sponsored Results” ads. The new advertising option, which displays...
Facebook Stock Under Pressure: U.S. User Base Declines
According to a recent report by Rory Maher, Facebook appears to be losing users in many of its most important markets. Maher, who is the...
Google Ideas Think Tank Fighting Illicit Networks
When Google Ideas initially launched eighteen months ago, the organization’s primary focus was reducing violent extremism through counter-radicalization strategies. Recently, the organization began targeting illicit...
Google Executive Marissa Mayer Named New Yahoo CEO
Earlier this afternoon, Yahoo! announced that it has appointed Marissa Mayer as its next President and CEO. The company is undoubtedly hoping that Mayer, who...
Acquisition Update: Facebook Hires Entire Spool Team
On Saturday morning, Facebook announced that they had acquired the employees behind the mobile-bookmarking service Spool. The San Francisco-based startup, which initially launched at TechCrunch...
Facebook Groups: New Feature Prevents Lurking
Recently, Facebook launched the new “read receipt” feature, which informs the post author and other Group visitors exactly who has viewed each post. Now each...
Data Indicates Google Continues to Dominate Search Market
According to recently released comScore data, Google continued to gain market share and dominate the U.S. search market last month. The comScore explicit market share...
Google Prepared to Pay $22.5 Million Fine to Settle “Cookiegate”
Google and the Federal Trade Commission have reportedly reached an agreement to settle charges regarding Google’s bypassing of the Safari browser’s privacy settings. The settlement, which...
CNN Picks Facebook for Presidential Running Mate
Although the next presidential election is approximately four months away, CNN has already announced its running mate – Facebook. Joel Kaplan, Facebook’s Vice President of...
Google Now: The Next Generation of the Personal Assistant
At the annual I/O developer conference, Google announced a major new feature called Google Now that is intended to compete directly with Apple’s Siri. The...
British Airways “Know Me” Program Uses Technology to Virtually Stalk High-Profile Flyers
In an effort to provide an unprecedented level of customer service for VIP passengers, British Airways has announced a new program that will use Google...
FBI Warns DNSChanger Malware Will Create Havoc on Monday
On Monday morning, approximately 300,000 computers will lose Internet connectivity due to the DNSChanger malware. The DNSChanger malware, which manipulated DNS settings to replace good...
GoogleEDU Employs Data-Centric Approach to Leadership Training
Larry Page, who reclaimed the CEO position at Google in April of 2011, is attempting to strategically position the search engine by instilling a sense...
Google Claims $80 Billion of Economic Impact on U.S. Economy
Google recently released the annual Economic Impact Report, which attempts to estimate the amount of revenue that Google drives to U.S. businesses each year. As...
Twitter Unlinks LinkedIn
On Friday afternoon, a Twitter blog post announced new restrictions related to how third-party developers are permitted to use the Twitter API. Although Twitter’s blog...
Twitter’s Mobile Advertising Producing Majority of Revenues
Even as technology giants Facebook and Google struggle to adequately monetize mobile users, Twitter recently announced it is generating the majority of its total revenues...
Google+ Events Invites You to Help Make Evite Obsolete
In an effort to make Evite obsolete and turn the invitation service industry upside down, Google recently launched Google+ Events. The new product, which was...
Mystery Illness Causes Larry Page to Cancel Public Appearances
Larry Page, Google’s 39-year-old Chief Executive Officer, has been absent from the company’s annual meeting and will not be making any public appearances “for the...
Facebook Email Fiasco: 900 Million+ Profile Updates Without Permission
Even though most Facebook users were not even aware that they had a Facebook email address, the social network recently changed the publicly displayed email...
Facebook “Find Friends Nearby” Feature Quietly Launches
Although Facebook has not yet officially announced it, the social network has quietly launched a new feature called “Find Friends Nearby.” The feature, which allows...
New Law Requires Sex Offenders to Post Criminal Status on Social Networks
On August 1st, a new Louisiana law that requires sex offenders and child predators to declare their criminal status on social networking sites will go...
Google’s Endangered Languages Project Fights to Save 3,054 Languages
With languages disappearing at an unprecedented rate, linguistic experts are predicting that over 3,000 of the world’s approximately 7,000 languages will become extinct in the...
Facebook Explains the “Report” Feature
When one of Facebook’s 900 million plus users clicks the “Report” button, the world’s largest social network has multiple security teams ready to take immediate...
Google Reports U.S. Government’s Censorship Request Volume “Alarming”
Google recently announced that the United States and several other Western governments drastically increased the number of censorship requests during the second half of 2011....
Facebook Settles Sponsored Stories Lawsuit for $10 Million
Over the weekend, news broke that Facebook has agreed to pay $10 million in order to settle a lawsuit related to Sponsored Stories. The five...
YouTube Considering Paid Subscriptions
YouTube, the leading video website in the world, streams over 4 billion videos daily. Although the site is currently monetized through advertisements and site sponsorships,...