Google Acquires CAPTCHA Company

Moms Are Fans Of Facebook And Twitter

Retailers trying to influence moms should pay attention to social media, according to a new Retail Advertising and Marketing Association survey conducted by BIGresearch. Women with children at home are more likely to use Facebook (60.3%), MySpace (42.4%) and Twitter (16.5%) than average adults (50.2%, 34.4%, 15%, respectively), according to the survey. Additionally, 15.3 percent maintain their own blog.

Microsoft Mobilizes its Behavioral Targeting

Today Microsoft launched a mobile behavioral targeting solution. This means the same behavioral targeting elements used on Microsoft's online properties are available to buyers of the company's mobile display ad inventory.

Dell Settles New York Fraud Case For $4 Million

New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo has announced that Dell and its subsidiary, Dell Financial Services (DFS), have agreed to pay his office $4 million in restitution, penalties and costs to settle charges of fraudulent and deceptive business practices that scammed consumers in the state.

Redbeacon from Former Googlers Takes Top Prize at Tech Conference

The 2009 TechCrunch 50 conference was held this week, and 50 start-ups each had a chance to make a presentation, and then the judges picked one grand-prize winner at the end of the whole thing to win $50,000. The winner this year, was a company called Redbeacon, which just happens to have been founded by three ex-Googlers - Ethan Anderson, Yaron Binur, and Aaron Lee,…

Android 1.6 SDK Arrives, Should Reach Consumers Soon

Android 1.6 SDK - which is perhaps better known by the codename "Donut" - has at last been made available for developers to download.  Upgrades and new features are evident left and right, and if Google's estimates are correct, not much more time will pass before Android 1.6 reaches consumers.