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Average Facebook Mobile Use Beats Desktop Access

Mike Isaac in Social on May 8 at 8:02 am PT

Facebook users spent an average of nearly 7.5 hours accessing the site from mobile phones in March, according to a recent comScore report, surpassing the average time spent accessing the site via desktop by nearly an hour. The trend is consistent with the shift of users relying more heavily on mobile devices to access the site, as the company itself has noted; more than half-a-billion people accessed Facebook via mobile device in March.

Internet Explorer on the Upswing

John Paczkowski in News on April 3 at 5:29 am PT

Could IE’s slump finally be over?

Microsoft: Google Bypasses Privacy Settings in Internet Explorer, Too

Lauren Goode in News on February 20 at 7:43 pm PT

A few days after a Wall Street Journal report said Google was bypassing privacy settings in Safari to track users, Microsoft is alleging that the search giant is doing the same thing with Internet Explorer.

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After Chrome Ads Flap, Google Puts Itself in the Penalty Box

Peter Kafka in News on January 3 at 2:47 pm PT

Google, which says it had no idea it was paying bloggers to promote its Chrome browser, is punishing itself for doing so. The search giant tells Danny Sullivan it will penalize the “pagerank” of www.google.com/chrome for “at least 60 days.” Google has blamed the pay-per-post campaign on ad network Unruly Media, but says “Google should be held to a higher standard, so we have taken stricter action than we would against a typical site.”