Hulu Missing Out On The Facebook Sharing Gold Rush
Facebook has super-charged a handful of lucky media companies selected to test-drive the social network’s frictionless sharing platform. But… Read more »
What's Coming In 2012: Digital Advertising, Up Close And Personal
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This is the fifth in a series of posts this week that will highlight key people, companies and trends to watch in 2012 in the sectors we cov… Read more »
FTC Calls For Comments On Facial Recognition Technology
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Devices that treat our face as a fingerprint are one of the more unnerving technologies of the information age. Privacy regulators are start… Read more »
Updated: Facebook Timeline And Ads: Real Estate For The Highest Bidder?
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A report out today, taking its cue from the new Timeline feature that is now getting rolled out to Facebook’s 800-million-plus users, allege… Read more »
Highlights Of 2011: The Year In Advertising, By The Numbers
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This is the fourth in a series of posts over this week that looks at the most significant developments of this year in the sectors that we c… Read more »
For Users Outside The U.S., Facebook Is Getting A Little More Private
Facebook is no stranger to accusations about how it treats users’ privacy — something that has come under increased public scrutiny in the… Read more »
AOL Ponies Up For Appssavvy's $7.1 Million Round As Social Ads Make Friends
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One of the consequences of the growth of social media has been the rise of that category of digital, interactive advertising referred to as… Read more »
How A New Court Ruling Upends Facebook's Sponsored Story Strategy
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A court decision in October said Facebook users couldn’t sue over being placed in ads because their endorsements had no economic value. Now… Read more »
Facebook's Sock On The Door
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Facebook’s new Timeline has been hailed as a digital mirror of our lives but it also provides a new window into the company itself. The view… Read more »
Game On Or Game Over? Zynga Opens Above IPO Price But Then Drops
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The long-awaited IPO of social games giant Zynga has finally arrived, but those hoping for quick, early flips of the stock may end up having… Read more »
Facebook Timeline Is Here For All: Creepy But Beautiful
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Facebook created a stir earlier this year by saying it would replace its profile page with a chronology called Timeline that is created from… Read more »
Smartphone Penetration Approaching Tipping Point As PC Usage Declines
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Smartphone penetration is slowly approaching the tipping point where it will be more common to have a smartphone than a feature phone among… Read more »
Facebook Readying Mobile Ad Push For 2012, Right Around The Expected IPO
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Facebook’s Carolyn Everson was tight-lipped several months ago at paidContent Advertising when the subject of mobile advertising was discuss… Read more »
Get Ready For Another Streaming Music Service: The Ad-Free Rara.com
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Spotify and Pandora (NYSE: P) may be the music brands people think of today when it comes to streaming services. But with only five million… Read more »
Nielsen: Google's Own Apps Play Second Fiddle To Facebook In Popularity
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Nielsen is getting ready later this week to release is quarterly State of the Media report, which this time around will focus on mobile medi… Read more »
Updated: YouMail App Yanked From Android Market After T-Mobile Complains
Update: YouMail’s app is back in the Android Market after some more communication between the voicemail company and T-Mobile. That revealed… Read more »
Facebook Countersues Timelines.com
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On the same day that Facebook announced the launch of Timeline in New Zealand, the company took another decisive step in rolling out its dig… Read more »
Facebook's Video Views Rising, But Mostly For Discovery
Consumers are increasingly using Facebook for video – but, despite studios and broadcasters hosting more of their content on the social netw… Read more »
As Facebook Rolls Out Timeline, Netflix Inches Closer To U.S. Sharing Deal
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Two more advances for Facebook in its ongoing quest to make its service ever more sticky and useful for its 800 million-plus base of subscri… Read more »
Evernote's New Hello And Food Apps Take Organizer To New Competitive Ground
Evernote has been one of the darlings of the app revolution, with a popular free service across multiple plaforms and used for all manner of… Read more »
Five Solutions To The Privacy Problem: Why They Work And Why They Don't
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Last week brought alarming accounts about how a firm called Carrier IQ may have used key logging technology to record millions of phone mess… Read more »
Updated: Report: Facebook Buys Location Sharing App Gowalla?
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More mobile movements from Facebook today: it has bought the check-in social media service Gowalla, according to a report in CNN. Read more »
Zynga To Raise $1 Billion From IPO
Facebook games maker Zynga plans to raise $1 billion (£630 million) in its initial public offering, valuing the fledgling internet firm at… Read more »
Facebook Appoints A New Head Of Mobile Developer Relations
If you had any doubt about Facebook’s ambitions in mobile, here’s another move that underscores the social network’s priorities. It has hire… Read more »
Spotify Launching Integrated Apps Within Its Platform
Spotify CEO Daniel Ek took the stage at Spotify’s first-ever press conference to expand the music streaming service’s Facebook integration t… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 11-30-11
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» FTC Announces 20 Year Privacy Deal With Facebook, Asks To Be ‘Liked’ (paidContent)
» Bets on Spotify’s news – radio… Read more »
FTC Announces 20 Year Privacy Deal With Facebook, Asks To Be 'Liked'
The Federal Trade Commission today released a much-anticipated settlement with Facebook over a series of privacy breaches. The deal has some… Read more »
Report: Facebook IPO Coming By Next June
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Facebook expects to become a public company over the next six to eight months, according to a report Monday. And the first step down that pa… Read more »
Do Courts Back Google and Facebook's View of Anonymity?
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Internet users who want to remain anonymous online have been pushing back against media companies’ efforts to strip them of their pseudonyms… Read more »
How Will Facebook's Buffy Phone Look? There's An App For That
Facebook has not approached anything resembling a confirmation of the reports that it is developing its own phone with HTC, code-named “Buff… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 11-22-11
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» Penguin pulls e-books from libraries across the land, citing “security concerns” (paidContent)
» Oh, HP: Firm’s Q4… Read more »
The Mythical Facebook Phone Surfaces, Still A Long Way From Best Buy
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Facebook really is working on its own mobile phone, according to a report from AllThingsD, after years of speculation about such a project.… Read more »
Facebook Court Hearing With Timelines.com Delayed
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The likelihood of Facebook’s new Timeline feature going live before the end of the year are looking increasingly slim. Read more »
Why Facebook Is The Real Winner With Google's Mediocre Music Strategy
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The digital music market is not in a great place right now and is in need of some major change: CD sales are still shrinking more quickly th… Read more »
Miramax Is The Latest To Ink A Deal With Netflix For UK Launch
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Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) is picking up some more momentum for its UK and Ireland launch, scheduled for early next year. The streaming video comp… Read more »
Orange Will Bring Three New, Cheap 'Facebook Phones' To Europe And Africa
Remember the “Facebook phones” launched by HTC and INQ earlier this year that gave users a hotlink to the social network and integrated the… Read more »
Sponsor Of Piracy Bill: Legit Companies 'Have Nothing To Worry About'
The Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee is pushing back against critics like Google (NSDQ: GOOG) and Facebook who say that impending p… Read more »
Regulator Tormenting Facebook Wants To Be Liked — On Facebook
Irony alert: The Federal Trade Commission may have just saddled Facebook with 20 years of privacy audits, but that’s not stopping it from ta… Read more »
Facebook Settlement Shows FTC Getting New Traction With Privacy Enforcement
Facebook is widely reported to be on the verge of a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission that will force it to tighten up its privac… Read more »
Google Takes Two: Buys Apture To Enhance Chrome, Katango To Beef Up Google+
Not one but two tech acquisitions were announced by Google (NSDQ: GOOG) today: Apture and Katango, both of which point to Google’s ambition… Read more »
