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eBay Warned About Misleading Ad
A British advertising watchdog has told eBay to stop claiming it offers brand new items for 25 percent less than retail stores.…
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Report Looks at Ad Requests for iPhone vs Android
Mobile advertising platform AdMob has released its Mobile Metrics Report looking at statistics for the month of March. It highlights some interesting trends in smartphone applications. AdMob serves ads for over 6,000 web sites and 1,000 apps and stores and analyzes the data from each ad request, impression, and click. The report is intended to provide insight into trends in the mobile ecosystem.
Wikimedia Enters Partnership With Orange
The Wikimedia Foundation, the organization behind Wikipedia, is partnering with European mobile provider Orange. The partnership will see Orange devices carrying co-branded content for customers in France, the UK, Spain, and Poland.
Google Announces Mobile Product Search Results
Today Google announced Google Product Search for Mobile. Android and iPhone users will now be able to type a product query into Google.com and get Google Product Search Results formatted for their phones.
Steve Jobs To Be Back at Apple in June
Steve Jobs, who has on separate occasions been reported dead and to have had a heart attack (neither of which were true), said goodbye to Apple back in January. He took a leave of absence from the company due to well-publicized health issues. Upon his departure, Jobs wrote a letter to the Apple staff. In it, he wrote:
Click Fraud Rate Declines In Q1
Click fraud declined in the first quarter of 2009 to 13.8 percent, according to Click Forensics' Click Fraud Index. That's down from the all-time high of 17.1 percent reported for the fourth quarter of 2008 and from the 16.3 percent rate reported for the first quarter of 2008.
