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As promised yesterday, Facebook has announced new privacy measures. The new features include long-sought for privacy controls based on friend lists (which…
February's over, and according to new comScore statistics, almost all of the major search engines should be glad to put it in the past. Microsoft and Yahoo both saw a shrink in market share, and Google's query growth was less impressive than it's been in previous periods.
Online advertiser ValueClick, Inc. will pay a record $2.9 million to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that its advertising claims and emails were deceptive and violated federal law.The agency also charged that ValueClick and its subsidiaries, Hi-Speed Media and E-Babylon did not secure consumer's sensitive financial information, even though they claimed to do so.
In December, as part of a tongue-in-cheek print ad, we listed 25 social media buzzwords that make you feel cool if you say them. Surprisingly, that post still gets a fair amount of traffic, and with so many people new to social media, we still get questions about, “What do these all mean?” The most recent request for definitions was just last night.
A freshman at Ryerson University in Toronto has been cleared of cheating allegations for setting up a Facebook study group and will not be expelled from school.A disciplinary panel at Ryerson has ruled that first year engineering student Chris Avenir should not be expelled for being the administrator of a Facebook study group for chemistry started last fall and has restored his passing grade in…
We're at an edge and about to go over it, according to Google. Only, at least for people who intend to profit off the mobile market, this is a good transition; the mobile Internet is becoming increasingly popular.
