INSTAGRAM has promised not to sell users' photos as a storm of outrage continues with celebrities among those dumping the photo-sharing service. Changes to the privacy policy and terms of service at Facebook-owned Instagram taking effect ...
The judge who oversaw Oracle's lawsuit against Google said Monday that the search giant "has failed to comply" with an Aug. 7 order to provide the names of parties whose commentary on the suit may have been influenced by money. Last week, ...
Just in time for the holiday season, Recess Creative, a Cleveland based digital advertising and marketing agency, has launched HolidayGram a new social photo sharing app for iPhone and iPod touch. "HolidayGram is the first app that's ...
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Once a high-flying web property, Digg was sold Thursday for a paltry $500,000. The sale to Betaworks, maker of an iOS news aggregator app and an URL clipper, Bit.ly, was a fraction of the $45 million lavished on the venture by Silicon ...
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Foursquare is rolling out the pilot for a new program, called Promoted Updates, which will charge merchants to send recommendations to users about their products or services, the company said Tuesday. Used by over 20 million people ...
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The file-sharing company BitTorrent has begun testing an advertising model through which it would share ad revenue with content producers whose work is downloaded through the service, promising a way for artists to monetize informal sharing ...
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Conventional wisdom says that car deals are better at the end of the year.But is this still true?Our analysis shows,some new-car offers in late December are great,while others are just hype. Working with TrueCar,our data analysts ...
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Oracle is yanking advertising claims that its Exadata database machine had vastly super performance to IBM's Power Systems hardware, according to an announcement Tuesday by the National Advertising Division, an industry self-regulatory ...
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Both Google and Oracle said Friday they did not pay any journalists or bloggers for coverage or commentary of their high-profile copyright infringement battle that recently concluded in a California court, but the companies disagreed on ...
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SMARTPHONE photo sharing service Instagram has refined its privacy policy to clear the way for sharing data with Facebook, which bought the company earlier this year. "Nothing has changed about your photos' ownership or who can see them," ...
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Websites,mobile apps and online advertising networks targeting children will be required to follow new privacy regulations,including getting a parent's permission before collecting geo-location information and photographs from kids,under ...
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The U.S. Federal Trade Commission should analyze Facebook's relationship with a data marketer to ensure it doesn't violate the social networking site's recently approved settlement, the Electronic Privacy Information Center said Monday. ...
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Google's decision last week to put its Google Wallet e-wallet system into the cloud is not sitting comfortably with security experts. Though the service's move from physical handsets to the cloud has expanded its credit card compatibility ...
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US poultry giant Sanderson Farms has reported an annual profit thanks to higher poultry prices and increased production. The return to profitability reflected higher production In the 12 months to the end of of October, earnings ...
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Alex Membrillo, the co-founder of Cardinal Web Solutions, an Atlanta Internet Marketing firm, was recently featured in an article for Entrepreneur.com. Written by Lambeth Hochwald, the piece, "5 Ways to Make Sweet Music for Your Business," ...
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