Q&A: Google to dig deeper into users’ lives February 29, 2012 7:29 PM ET By MICHAEL LIEDTKE SAN FRANCISCO (AP) – If you’re amazed — and maybe even a little alarmed — about how much Google seems to know about you, brace yourself. Beginning Thursday, Google will operate under a streamlined privacy policy that enables [...]

Microsoft eclipses Yahoo in US search for 1st time January 11, 2012 6:24 PM ET By MICHAEL LIEDTKE SAN FRANCISCO (AP) – Microsoft Corp. has finally reached a long sought and expensive goal — its Bing search engine now ranks second behind Google in the Internet’s most lucrative market. Bing and Microsoft’s other websites fielded [...]

There is a Joke in Egypt about past leaders losing their Presidency and Mubarak today. Nasser, Sadat, Mubarak meet in the heavens and Nasser says “I resigned the Presidency of Egypt because of the Six Day War.” Sadat says “I lost the Presidency because I was assassinated.” They both ask Mubarak how he lost the [...]

Facebook launches pages redesign By Ben Parr, Mashable February 11, 2011 9:59 a.m. EST | Filed under: Social Media (Mashable) — Facebook has begun rolling out a full redesign of Facebook Pages. The changes will make the Pages look and operate more like user profiles. The new Pages redesign was first seen in December, when [...]

The company is reportedly working with Skype to allow members to call and video chat with each other. Posted by Kim Peterson on Wednesday, September 29, 2010 3:47 PM The battle between Google (GOOG) and Skype just ratcheted up a notch with Facebook’s entry into the fray. Recall that Google recently launched voice calling from [...]

Some quitting Facebook as privacy concerns escalate By John D. Sutter, CNN May 13, 2010 1:56 p.m. EDT (CNN) — Concerns over Facebook’s new privacy policy and the online social network’s recent efforts to spread its information across the Web have led some of the site’s faithful to delete their accounts — or at least [...]

SciTechBlog May 4, 2010 Internet Explorer losing grip on browser market Many people complain about Microsoft’s Internet Explorer. There have even been campaigns to kill old versions of the Web browser. But despite the haters, IE has always remained way on top. In June 2002, 95 percent of computers accessed the Internet through the product, [...]

Why Advertising is Failing on the Internet by Eric Clemons, March 2009 Advertising will fail for three reasons: There are three problems with advertising in any form, whether broadcast or online: Consumers do not trust advertising. Dan Ariely has demonstrated that messages attributed to a commercial source have much lower credibility and much lower impact [...]

Identity theft hits record high Criminals use social networks, online transactions to gather victims’ information. By Elizabeth Strott on Wednesday, February 10, 2010 11:46 AM http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com/Investing/Dispatch/market-dispatches.aspx?post=1619799&_blg=1,1620847 More people in the United States are falling victim to identity fraud. A study by Javelin Strategy & Research showed that the number of victims jumped by 12% to [...]

SUNDAY, JAN 17, 2010 09:00 EST Smaller Startups to Fuel M&A Fire in Mobile Ads This Year BY COLIN GIBBS The mobile ad space continued to heat up last week with Amobee’s acquisition of RingRing Media, a 2-year-old London-based startup, for an undisclosed sum. The move surely isn’t anywhere near the magnitude of Google’s $750 [...]