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Content Intent, Part 3 February 11, 2012 
The dissemination of content throughout the Web has forced companies and marketing firms to rethink how they advertise. The swell of venues that are housing content has dueling effects: It increases the potential reach of an advertisement but also dilutes the customer pool for the original publisher.
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EPIC Pushes FTC to Get in the Ring With Google February 09, 2012 
The fallout from changes Google plans to make to its privacy policies and terms of service continues, with consumer advocacy group the Electronic Privacy Information Center suing the Federal Trade Commission over the issue. EPIC is seeking injunctive and other relief to force the FTC to enforce a consent order it issued in October against Google.
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Groupon Shares Dumped in Discount Bin After Rough Quarter February 09, 2012 
Shares of Groupon were down about 14 percent midday Thursday, a day after the company revealed that it failed to turn a profit in its first quarter as a publicly traded company. The daily coupon site saw a revenue increase of 194 percent to $506 million during its first fiscal quarter, but it still had a net loss of $42.7 million, or about 8 cents per share.
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Amazon Sweetens Prime Deal With More Instant Vid Titles February 09, 2012 
Amazon and Viacom have inked a licensing agreement that will bring the number of instant videos available to Amazon Prime customers to more than 15,000. The deal will add episodes from Viacom's Comedy Central, MTV, Nickelodeon and BET outlets. Titles will include "The Hills," "Jersey Shore," "The Hard Times of RJ Berger," several seasons of "The Real World," and some Comedy Central shows.
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Yahoo Rumblings Shake Loose Chairman, Board Members February 08, 2012 
Yahoo's chairman and three of its board members will step down at the company's next shareholder meeting as part of an extensive overhaul process Yahoo has been undertaking to please investors. Yahoo has faced criticism from shareholders for some time. Years ago, its management refused a buyout offer from Microsoft that would have netted $44.6 billion.
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The Talk of the Web February 08, 2012 
There's been a lot of activity on the Web and in our industry in the last week, and I thought it might be fun to try and tie at least some of it together. Much of it in one way or another involves Facebook -- or "FB," as the proposed ticker symbol suggests. It's widely assumed that its IPO will make the very earliest buyers a nice pile of profit, but what about those looking for a longer-term investment?
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Wolfram Alpha to Get Brainier February 07, 2012 
How much does a civil engineer in New Orleans make? What is the average temperature there? What are the differences in the trigonometric functions of sin, cos and tan? What is the exchange rate between the U.S. and the UK right now? Throw one of these questions at Siri, the voice assistant in iPhone 4S, and she will speedily reply. Fueling Siri is Wolfram Alpha, a computational knowledge search engine.
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Facebook's IPO: What's Its Game? February 07, 2012 
As Facebook prepares for an IPO of its stock that may value the company at US$100 billion, it's important to know what sport it's in and if, like the Chicago Bulls with Jordan, dynasties can last. Michael Jordan was probably the best basketball player to play the game of hoop. He had a halo effect. But baseball just wasn't his sport at the level basketball was.
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New Player Enters Field of Streams February 06, 2012 
Look out Netflix, a new video service has swaggered into town. Rumored since December, Verizon's partnership with Coinstar, the parent company of Redbox video rental kiosks, became official on Monday. As with Netflix, customers will be able to choose between physical discs and streaming. The physical discs, however, will need to be picked up and returned to a Redbox kiosk.
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BTJunkie Scurries Into the Shadows February 06, 2012 
BitTorrent search engine BTJunkie has abruptly shut down its website, giving its users a short and sweet goodbye: "We've decided to voluntarily shut down. We've been fighting for years for your right to communicate, but it's time to move on." It appears likely that the move was a defensive maneuver in response to law enforcement's takedown of the Megaupload site in January.
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Facebook May Be Chasing Mobile Ad Pot of Gold February 06, 2012 
Facebook is reportedly working on a system to put ads in its mobile services. The news comes just days after the social networking giant filed for an initial public offering, hoping to raise $5 billion. In its IPO filing, Facebook stated that the number of active mobile users of its social network is growing.
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Google on EC's Privacy Request: How About No? February 06, 2012 
Google has rejected the request of European regulators that it delay the implementation of its new privacy policies to give authorities time to review the changes and ensure that users' data will remain secure. The European Commission's Article 29 Working Party asked Google to hold off on launching its new policies until after the committee could analyze the changes.
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Google's New App Mall Cop February 06, 2012 
Google last week announced it's beefed up security at the Android Market with a malware sniffing system called "Bouncer." Bouncer analyzes new and existing apps, as well as developer accounts. Before apps are allowed to be sold in the market, they're analyzed to see if they contain any known malware, spyware or trojans.
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Pew Study Finds Facebook Power Concentrated in Relatively Few Friends February 03, 2012
An in-depth look at Facebook user behavior reveals some interesting trends among this more than 800- million constituency: One, Facebook users tend to receive more from the Facebook friends than they give out; two, there is a solid core of users that are very active on the site.
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Google Hires Bouncer to Give Android Malware the Heave-Ho February 03, 2012 
Google announced a new layer of security for its Android Market on Thursday, unveiling a program called "Bouncer" that will automatically scan apps for malware. Bouncer works by analyzing each app as it's uploaded to the Market, scanning for threats, spyware and trojans.
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Content Intent, Part 2 February 03, 2012 
It can be a little tricky talking about how and why media outlets allow, and indeed encourage, the diffusion of their content throughout the Web. For starters, people tend to be tightlipped about this strategy. No one from CNN, Fox News, MSNBC or Viacom agreed to speak on the record for this article. They are, apparently, much less eager to discuss sharing content than they are to actually share it.
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