March Madness Driving Fans Online

Sports fans are going online at greater rates to watch games and follow their favorite sports teams, according to a new study by the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA).The "Third Annual Sports and Technology Study: Future of Sports Content Consumption," conducted by CEA and the Sports Video Group (SVG), found that 38 percent of sports fans will download and watch a game for free over the…

Google Japan Gets Makeover

Google Japan probably isn't a site you visit on a daily basis.  You might want to make a special stop this once, though, because it's undergone a mildly interesting change.

Google Ad Review Center Expands

If the Ad Review Center hasn't been enabled on your AdSense account, you can either consider this article a preview or completely irrelevant - read on or click back as you please.  But the Center's availability has been expanded, and Google wants publishers to know what it's all about.

Search Engines Shaky In February

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.

ValueClick Settles With FTC For $2.9 Million

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.