New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo announced today that his office intends to sue social networking site Tagged for deceptive email marking practices and invasion of privacy.
eBay Live! Now Defunct
eBay has announced it will no longer be hosting its annual networking event eBay Live!, and will instead focus on a series of local gatherings.
The company told sellers in a blog post Monday that it would be canceling its planned August 2010 event in Orlando, Florida. Its new plan is to host "more local events that don’t require costly travel" for attendees, said president of eBay Marketplaces Lorrie Norrington.
Nielsen Enhances Online Measurement Panel
Nielsen has announced the launch of an expanded panel and platform for measuring Internet audiences.
The new panel increases Nielsen’s measurement of websites from 3,00 to more than 30,000, providing better representation of Hispanic, teens, and cell phone only households, and improves coverage of multiple PCs in households.
Retail Boosts Search Spending In Q2
Search spending from retailers was up 36 percent year-over-year in the second quarter across all major search engines, according to a new report from SearchIgnite.
The trend was not seen in other categories, such as travel and finance, and U.S. search spend was down 6.5 percent for the quarter.
Retail search spend increased steadily as the quarter went on, with June showing an increase in spend of 55 percent compared with June 2008.
Tweeting Harry Potter
Every time I’m ready to write off the the Internet, it (almost) always redeems itself.
Twitter Hires Prominent Lawer Amidst Legal Concerns
It wouldn’t be the Internet if there wasn’t just as much talk of legal action as there is of innovation. Google knows this better than anyone as they fend off lawsuits on a regular basis that are related (at least loosely in some cases) to their offerings and the apparent lines that are crossed by the search giant. Twitter has gotten a taste of that with the Tony LaRussa impersonation account issue.
Twitter Unveils New Following and Followers Pages
Now when you click the Following and Followers links from your Twitter account you’ll notice some major changes. Twitter has upgraded some of the design of the pages and added multiple new features.
What do you think of the new design and features? Tell us.
Google Voice: The New Coolest Thing Ever
What would you say if a company asked you if you’d like to have all of your home, work and cell phone calls, all your text messages, all your conference calls, all your voicemail — pretty much anything you say or type into a phone — ALL of it — go thru their 3rd party service? You, like me, would probably say; Thanks but no thanks.
Payment Firm Seeks Return Of Seized Online Poker Funds
Payment processor Account Services Corporation has filed a motion in federal court for the return of about $14 million seized by the government and owed to online poker players.
The move comes from actions taken in June, when the U.S. froze assets totaling around $33 million belonging to Allied Systems and Account Services.
Russian Firm Investing Another $100 Million In Facebook
Tonight, it’s almost certain that bars around Facebook’s new headquarters in Stanford Research Park will be busy. Tomorrow, the offices of Facebook’s employees may be full of new toys and gadgets. It seems that Russian investment firm Digital Sky Technologies wants to buy $100 million of common stock from employees.