Facebook’s new ad network allows companies to interject themselves into the social networking site quite literally as if they are fellow members: Facebook has thrown down the gauntlet in front of Google, introducing an online ad platform designed to help businesses reach its social network of 50 million users. With industry pundits predicting that Facebook [...]
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With Facebook’s Ad Network Some of Your Friends Might Be Companies
November 6th, 2007 · No Comments · Privacy and Marketing, Social Networking
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Google Enters the Brave New World of Wireless with Android, Not the “GPhone”
November 6th, 2007 · No Comments · Mobile Devices and Security, Privacy and Marketing
Google has announced, not the much anticipated and speculated “Google phone” or “GPhone” but instead an open source platform, Android. From the official Google Blog: Despite all of the very interesting speculation over the last few months, we’re not announcing a Gphone. However, we think what we are announcing — the Open Handset Alliance and [...]
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FTC Town Hall Meetings: Debate Continues as to Whether Online Advertisers’ Self-Regulation Is Sufficient
November 3rd, 2007 · 1 Comment · Privacy and Marketing
In two days of meetings, the FTC is taking the online advertising industry to task: Internet advertisers have fallen short of promised self-regulation in respecting Internet users’ privacy, a Federal Trade Commission official said on Thursday, even as one firm, Tacoda, said it decided to refrain from collecting some sensitive information. FTC Commissioner Jon Leibowitz [...]
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