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Singtel’s Amobee Buys AdJitsu To Take Mobile Ads Into The Third Dimension
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Another bit of consolidation in the mobile advertising space — this time with an ad-tech twist: Amobee, the mobile ad company that itself was the subject of a takeover by Singtel only two months ago, has now bought an ad startup of its own: AdJitsu, a specialist in “3D” advertising...
Timeline for Facebook pages: a complete overview of new features
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Facebook today unveils Timeline for pages — a combination of design elements and moderation features that give organizations the controls they need to maintain an effective presence on the social network. The redesign, the largest for pages since February 2011, creates a more unified look and feel for the site...
Facebook rolling out lightbox photo viewer globally by end of week
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Facebook is rolling out its lightbox photo viewer to all 850 million of its users by the end of this week, according to a spokesperson for the company, who confirmed the deadline to VentureBeat in an e-mail. “The new photo viewer is rolling out to everyone on Facebook and...
Facebook's new widescreen Photo Viewer going live for more users
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Facebook began testing a rather — ahem — inspired new design for its Photo Viewer earlier this month, taking significant visual cues from Google+. If you'd like to get a look at it for yourself, you may be in luck: the new viewer appears to be rolling out to...
RadiumOne Debuts Via.Me, A Mobile, Social Content Sharing Application
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RadiumOne, an online ad network that aims to combine social and intent data to serve ads, is launching a new consumer-focused application today, Via.Me. Basically, the iOS app allows you to capture, filter, and share pictures, images, videos, audio and other content across multiple social networks. At launch, Via.me’s app...
AdSafe raises $10M to ensure that ads go on “safe” web pages
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AdSafe Media has raised $10 million in funding to make sure that your company’s major advertisements don’t intentionally wind up on potentially embarrassing sites such as porn or pirating sites. The New York-based company has created automated “ad safety” solutions for advertisers, agencies and publishers to make sure that their...
Skype calls to feature ads big enough to interrupt any conversation
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Can you spot the ad in this Skype call? Hint: it's the giant thing on the right. Skype Skype has provided a great service for years, keeping us connected with friends and family. But there's always been one thing missing—marketers interrupting calls with giant display ads. Skype is finally...
Wikipedia: If you see banner ads on our site, then you might have a virus
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Apparently some folks who were visiting Wikipedia saw some annoying banner ads. Not the requests for donations from its founder Jimmy Wales, mind you, but real banner ads promoting things to buy from third-party sites. Today, the company has stepped out to make its users aware that not only will...
Guy Sues Apple Because Siri Doesn't Do What Apple Says Siri Does
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Apple has been hit with a lawsuit from a guy who says Siri doesn't do what Apple's advertisements say Siri does, reports Joe Palazzolo of the Wall Street Journal. The fact that Siri doesn't work all that well isn't news to anyone who owns an iPhone 4S. But it...
Federal And Rhode Island Agencies Divvy Up $500M That Google Forfeited In Pharmaceutical Settlement
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The Federal Government has approved a plan to distribute the $500 million Google paid for illegally accepting advertisements from Canadian pharmacies targeting U.S. consumers. Under the plan, $230 million will be divided amongst the Rhode Island law enforcement agencies that participated in the... Please visit Search Engine Land for the...
Skype for Windows introduces ads during one-on-one audio calls
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Skype has announced a new feature called Conversation Ads, which displays advertisements inside of the app window during one-on-one audio calls. The ads will only appear for users who don't have a subscription or Skype credit, and, at least for now, Conversation Ads have only been announced for the...
Researchers find privacy and security holes in Android apps with ads
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A team of researchers at North Carolina State University have found that many of the libraries used in free Android applications to display in-application advertisements also pose a threat to privacy, and can be used by attackers to get past Android security. In some cases, the software libraries used...
Facebook Fights Back, Countersues Yahoo For Patent Infringement
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In response to being sued by Yahoo for patent infringement last month, Facebook today filed counter-claims against Yahoo for infringing 10 of its own patents. Facebook says the following Yahoo features and properties violate its intellectual property: Yahoo Home Page, Yahoo’s Content Optimization and Relevance Engine (“C.O.R.E.”), the Yahoo Flickr photo...
Facebook Reportedly Developing Technology To ‘Friend’ Kids Under 13
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Facebook is developing technology to allow children under the age of 13 to access its globe-spanning social network, says a recent story in The Wall Street Journal. Photo: AlohaMamma/Flickr Citing unnamed sources that have spoken with Facebook executives, the Journal reported on Monday that the social networking giant is building...
37-second observation: how Samsung and Apple pitch products
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A tale of two advertisements: Samsung’s Galaxy S III and Apple’s iPad. Both are designed for humans, but they go about telling you in different ways....
Hulu Plus subscriptions hits 2 million, accelerates revenue
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Hulu Plus, Hulu’s paid subscription service, has hit 2 million users and is helping put the company’s revenue on a faster pace than last year, said Hulu’s CEO Jason Kilar. Speaking at the Ad Age Digital conference in New York, Kilar said the milestone makes Hulu Plus the fastest growing...
Kickstarter Shares The Effects Of Its Blockbuster Season
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February was a big month for Kickstarter. Not only did they have a number of record-breaking projects, but they were shoved into the mainstream consciousness with a flood of traditional news coverage. But there was always the question of whether these thousands of pledges would have any lasting effect on...
Lawmakers Question Whether Google Adequately Reviews Ads Potentially Related To Human Trafficking
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Lawmakers Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) and Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) are concerned that Google is profiting from advertisements placed by sex traffickers, expressing these fears in a joint letter to CEO Larry Page. The missive seeks reassurances of the company’s commitment to ferreting out ads that... Please visit Search Engine Land for...
Before and after comparisons of Facebook’s redesigned News Feed
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Facebook’s latest News Feed redesign — featuring larger photos and text, as well as a new format for links — is likely to affect how users engage with page posts and advertisements. Here’s a comparison of how posts appear in the feed before and after the redesign, with some suggestions on...
Samsung sets up $4 million contest to stimulate app development for Galaxy Tab and Note
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Eager to rectify the shortage of quality apps for Android tablets, Samsung is setting aside $4,080,000 as a prize fund to encourage developers to partake in its Smart App Challenge 2012. Those who build the most popular apps on the company's Galaxy Tab and Note products — as judged...
Steve Jobs' Idea for Ad-Supported Operating Systems Was Nearly a Reality
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Back in late 2009, an Apple patent application surfaced showing that the company had explored ad-supported operating systems, with the user receiving free or discounted goods or services in exchange for viewing the advertisements. The patent application, which was filed in 2008 and shows ad integration in Mac OS X,...
This Facebook log-out ad probably cost Samsung Mobile $700K
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Facebook revealed a new ad product last month in a location that took some of us by surprise: the log out screen. The move was seen to be a largely positive one for marketers who could take advantage of those who use Facebook on public or shared computers, but also as one...
Microsoft mulling new in-Skype advertising options
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Sit back and hold onto your hat, Microsoft appears interested in deriving larger revenues from its $8.5 billion purchase of Skype. While that’s not a surprise, how the company might do it could cause some users to shudder: ads. Yes, it seems that advertisements, in a more intrusive way than...
Twitter Knows When You Sleep, And More
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Twitter data is potentially lucrative for the global communications business. It can inform when to serve up advertisements on the site and for what kinds of products. It also produces cool graphs and charts....
Microsoft readies NUads: they watch you watching them
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Interactive NUads advertisements tied to the Kinect sensor will roll out in late spring, Microsoft told CNET this afternoon. But will all other Kinect apps be as privacy-sensitive? [Read more]...
Microsoft takes aim at hipsters, nerds with new advertising campaign
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Calling it "the browser you loved to hate," Microsoft is encouraging nerds to give Internet Explorer 9 a second look, and even try it out—at least for a site or two. The new tumblog brings together hipster-trolling graphs, quotable quotes from Twitter, blogs, and the press, and video advertisements...
Ads are coming to your Twitter for iPhone and Android timelines
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Twitter has today announced that ads are coming to the timeline of its mobile versions of Twitter on iPhone and Android, marking a departure from its previous policy of only displaying them in the mobile web versions of Twitter. While the Promoted Trends and Promoted Tweets in Search products have...
Google Acquires Social Media Toolbar Maker Meebo
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Google has acquired Meebo, a company that makes a toolbar that aggregates content from websites as well as displaying advertisements, the company said on its......
Better search said to be in the works at Facebook
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[/caption] Seek and you shall find is the promise of an improved Facebook search engine said to be in works at the world’s largest social network. Roughly 24 Facebook engineers, on a team led by the company’s engineering director Lars Rasmussen (also a former Google engineering manager), are working to...
Marriott Says It Stopped Ad Service Hidden in Wi-Fi
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Last week, the Courtyard Marriott hotel in Midtown Manhattan was discovered to come with some hidden extras: The free Wi-Fi connection inserted lines of code into every Web page a guest visited - code for serving advertisements. On Monday, Marriott International said it had investigated the situation and disabled this...
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