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Article | 27/04/2012 FTC hires outside attorney in Google antitrust case
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has hired an outside litigator to lead its antitrust investigation of Google, a possible sign that the FTC is prepar...
Article | 26/04/2012 ZestCash claims bringing big data to consumer lending will revolutionize the industry
ZestCash, an online lending service for lower-income borrowers, has begun using a new big data-driven decision-making method that it claims will allow...
Article | 26/04/2012 California to develop mobile privacy guidelines
The state of California will issue a set of best practices for mobile app developers this summer, responding to concerns that have emerged nationwide ...
Article | 25/04/2012 Google begins penalizing search 'over-optimization'
Google is making a change to its search algorithm to penalize what the company's head of Web spam called "over-optimization" and instead favor website...
Article | 24/04/2012 Facebook earnings show continued growth, decline in profit
Facebook announced on Monday that its total revenue rose 45 percent year over year in the first quarter of 2012, but its profit fell 12 percent.
Article | 20/04/2012 Berners-Lee: Demand your data from Internet companies
Tim Berners-Lee has said that the problem with companies like Facebook and Google is not that they collect vast troves of data about their users, but ...
Article | 19/04/2012 Banjo hits 1 million users, signaling mainstream interest in social location apps
The mobile app Banjo hit a million users this week, suggesting that a new crop of location-based social apps may become popular with mainstream users ...
Article | 19/04/2012 Internet ad revenue hit $31.7 billion in 2011, topping previous record
Internet advertising revenue soared to a record high of US$31.7 billion in 2011, up 22 percent from 2010, according to a report released Wednesday by ...
Article | 18/04/2012 Yahoo's new CEO lays out strategy for smaller, more focused company
Yahoo plans to cut about 50 properties and refocus on its core business, CEO Scott Thompson said in an earnings call on Tuesday.
Article | 18/04/2012 Yahoo earnings rise, but revenue treads water
Yahoo reported Tuesday that its first-quarter profit came to US$286 million, up 28 percent from the same quarter last year, but the company's total re...
Article | 18/04/2012 Paying with smartphones to outpace credit cards by 2020, experts say
More than two-thirds of technology insiders believe that paying with smartphones will overtake cash and credit card payments by 2020, according to a s...
Article | 17/04/2012 Operators of online drug ring arrested in global sweep
The alleged ringleader of an online marketplace for illegal drugs was arrested Monday in Lelystad, Netherlands, capping two days of arrests and the in...
Article | 17/04/2012 Facebook to make profile URL usernames and email handles the same
Facebook members who have customized their profile webpage with a unique name will have to use that same name as the handle of their Facebook.com emai...
Article | 14/04/2012 Google adds new options for viewing data in Fusion Tables
Google is trying to popularize the somewhat obscure art of data visualization by adding more user-friendly options to its Fusion Tables app.
Article | 13/04/2012 Microsoft to start charging for Bing search API
Microsoft will begin charging developers to use the API (application programming interface) for its Bing search engine, the company announced Thursday...

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