The writing's on the wall – and it's following you. Two new gesture-sensing innovations designed for large electronic screens in public places herald a future in which everything from street art to advertisements track your movements, ...
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Although Google Chairman Eric Schmidt said this week that Chrome OS and Android will remain separate operating systems "for a very, very long time," one analyst still thinks the two will eventually merge. Despite Schmidt's comments, ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
Facebook said Wednesday that University of California, San Francisco Chancellor Susan Desmond-Hellmann has been elected to be a company director, adding a second woman to the social-networking company's board. In addition to Facebook, Ms ...
Tags: Facebook, social-networking, company news
Crackle, Sony Pictures Television's multi-platform entertainment network, announced today that, together with innovative video advertising technology platform Innovid, they are launching cRoll. cRoll is the first interactive video ad unit ...
Facebook is buying Microsoft's Atlas Advertiser Suite, an ad analysis platform, in a move that should increase its advertising revenue and give marketers better information about their campaigns across the social network, on both desktop ...
Tags: Facebook, Microsoft, analysis platform
New legislation in the U.S. Senate that would allow Internet users to tell companies to stop tracking them is unnecessary and could slow e-commerce growth, some tech groups said. Sens. John "Jay" Rockefeller, a West Virginia Democrat, and ...
What's it like coming to work at an office that has a 327-acre automotive test facility pictured just outside your window? We'll, it's pretty cool. We have the largest and most sophisticated independent automobile testing center devoted ...
Tags: automotive test, automobile testing, car
Twitter will end support for TweetDeck on the iPhone and Android in order to focus solely on browser-based versions for those platforms. And it is also apparently dumping Facebook. TweetDeck, a popular application that was acquired by ...
Tags: Twitter, network advertising, Service, computer
Mozilla will automatically block third-party cookies starting with Firefox 22, which is slated to ship this summer, according to the Stanford University researcher who coded the change. The move, which will make it more difficult for ...
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Twitter is aiming to give marketers more control in how they advertise on the site by giving them access to its API through third-party service companies. The program is based on Twitter's Ads API (application programming interface), ...
Tags: Twitter, API, third-party service
Facebook scored an initial legal victory in its IPO case following a federal judge's dismissal of a group of investor lawsuits filed against the company. More than 30 lawsuits were filed against Facebook after it went public last May, ...
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Vir2o, a new social media engagement platform, will include functionality for a digital music service. The new music service, called Maestro, will allow users to play, share, download, purchase and organize music files within the new Vir2o ...
Tags: Vir2o, social media engagement platform, digital music service
Through its new Smart Plan platform, Alcatel-Lucent wants to make mobile subscription plans more flexible and allow data packages to be shared among users and handed out by companies to their customers using an application on smartphones ...
Microsoft and Symantec have dismantled a botnet that took over millions of computers for criminal activities such as identity theft and click fraud. The Bamital botnet threatened the US$12.7 billion online advertising industry by ...
Tags: Microsoft, Symantec, botnet, click fraud
Twitter has confirmed that it acquired Bluefin Labs, a vendor of data that uses commentary on social networks to measure the effectiveness of commercials and programs on TV. "We believe that Bluefin's data science capabilities and social ...
Tags: Twitter, Bluefin Labs, acquisition