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Facebook Exec Mike Murphy Leaving Social Networking Giant
Mike Murphy, VP of global sales at Facebook has made a departure from the social-networking giant public, with words truly worthy of a rock star (and online ad sales veteran) declaring that countless nights on the road are no longer for him. They don’t leave enough time for his personal life. AllThingsD gets the scoop: ...
Firesheep and Security-as-a-Service Take on the Spotlights
Not so long ago Seattle-based developer Eric Butler had set himself an aim to expose the security flaws in Facebook and Twitter’s data handling, and launched Firefox program Firesheep for free download. This extremely easy to use social-network password stealer may have been coded in good faith, but after thousands of downloads, a wave of ...
Google Boost for Places Ads, Hyperlocal Targets
Currently available in only San Fran, Houston and Chicago, the new G-Boost beta ad tool has been recently launched, much to the fortune of countless local businesses in the three selected areas. Boost ads, appearing in the purple “Sponsored Links” section of a given SERP, add a whole new set of features to the once ...
Rising Relevance of Digital Media: More Publishers See Opportunities
The online market is breaking boundaries, and like every good publisher knows, that’s not something you let pass by your ear and iPad. Public broadcasting giant PBS and publishing tycoon Conde Nast are also aware of that fact, which is exactly what stands behind these two revolutionary moves that push digital media further into the ...
Sean Parker Talks Limitations; Users Scream Extortion
Spotify investor and Napster co-founder Sean Parker attended a discussion regarding his plan for the ever-popular U.S music streaming service. Apparently though, a Spotify dedication towards a more healthy customer-business relationship had slipped out of his mind for the sake of a nobler goal. That goal is to imaginatively exchange blows with hacking on users’ ...
How the Retail Store near You Will Look in 2015: Holograms, Smartphones and Fluffy
Everybody likes predictions, and with the recent U.S economic crisis in mind, it can be helpful in more ways than one to lean back a bit and read about the future of retail in 2015 – the time when pet stores will boom, and e-Commerce will score big time in terms of mass-revenue. “…American consumers ...
Google Cutting Groups to ‘Creatively Promote’ other Products
In a recent e-mail sent to Google Groups group owners, the Corp. politely announced that it will cut the leash on several of the app’s most favored features as of January next year, as these are evidently standing in the way of its other apps including G-Docs, G-Sites and more. “Starting in January 2011, Groups ...
UK Spotify Music App Hopeful for webOS
Spotify, the ever-popular if not leading UK music streaming app (currently not available in the U.S) has been reported here to have had attempted to raise some buzz around a prospected future expansion, arriving in the form of a HP webOS version of the app. The mobile competitors Grooveshark and Finetunes ,currently available for the ...
Viacom Storms High-Profile Appellate Lawyer on Google
There’s nothing like Court TV, but when it comes to the real deal, Viacom and particularly YouTube star at the top of the list. In its efforts to overturn an NY judge’s ruling of YouTube’s status as a sort of safe haven from direct and contributory copyright infringement lawsuits, Viacom has hired leading appellate lawyer ...
More Facebook Privacy Issues That Won’t Make Users Happy at All
Privacy, privacy, privacy – Facebook has seen all too many complaints, lawsuits and privacy concerns lately, but according to this, it’s only getting worst. As a poll by Microsoft’s Saikat Guha and Max Planck Institute for Software Systems’ Bin Cheng and Paul Francis reveals, Facebook advertisers can and already have detected gay users and angled ...
