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Ben Fox Rubin, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in Social on May 8 at 12:45 pm PT
Social-networking service Myspace settled allegations by the Federal Trade Commission that it misled millions of users about its sharing of personal information with advertisers, the FTC said.
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Ben Elowitz, CEO, Wetpaint in Voices on May 7 at 2:14 pm PT
“Content is king” has been a long-lived mantra of media. And in the 1990s and early 2000s, it was true.
Peter Kafka in Media on April 17 at 6:01 am PT
The start-up says it uses artificial intelligence to sort out the best Web news stories for you. But it wants a human to help out, anyway.
Tricia Duryee in Commerce on January 25 at 9:00 am PT
One of PopCap’s lead developers is starting a company that has come up with a new way to make money using incentives in free mobile apps.
Peter Kafka in Media on September 6, 2011 at 4:36 am PT
Fox usually wants you to watch its shows on your TV, not your PC. But for now, it’s happy to let you watch Zooey Deschanel and her pals on “New Girl.”
Tricia Duryee in Commerce on July 11, 2011 at 6:00 am PT
A subsidiary of AT&T known best for its yellow-pages products is launching a mobile ad network that will go head to head against Apple’s iAd and Google’s AdMob.
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Emily Steel, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on March 28, 2011 at 12:55 pm PT
With its traffic plummeting and its future uncertain, social-media and entertainment site Myspace is having an increasingly hard time drawing advertisers, especially for long-term deals.
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Amir Efrati, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on March 11, 2011 at 5:58 pm PT
Google Inc., trying to become a middleman for selling video ads on the Internet, will soon test a service that matches advertisers with website publishers, including Google’s own YouTube video site.
Ina Fried in Mobile on February 10, 2011 at 1:20 pm PT
This time it’s Tim Bray casting stones in a since-deleted tweet. However, the real problem for Nokia and Microsoft isn’t Google’s words. It’s Android and its growing share of the smartphone market.
Ina Fried in Mobile on February 10, 2011 at 5:00 am PT
In an interview, Nokia’s chief executive talks about the factors that went into choosing among three possibilities for its high-end smartphone business–sticking with plans to develop around MeeGo, shifting to Android or adopting Microsoft’s Windows Phone.
