Ad Planner 1000 Lets Google Ad Clients Target Top Sites (NewsFactor)

NewsFactor - Google gave its online advertising clients a new tool Thursday that gives them the ability to restrict their online marketing campaigns to the world’s top 1,000 web domains from Facebook on down, based on unique visitor numbers. Google said it launched the new Ad Planner 1000 filter in response to feedback from a number of customers running branding campaigns.

Google crowns Facebook king of Internet visits (AFP)

AFP - Google on Friday released Web traffic data indicating that Facebook is king when it comes to online visitors despite criticism about privacy at the social-networking service.

What You Don’t Know about Your Online Reputation Can Hurt You (PC World)

PC World - Social networking, and the broader concept of online privacy, have been under some rather intense scrutiny over the past couple of weeks.

Online bidders hot for Napa Valley wines (AFP)

AFP - Bidders around the world are vying online for tastes of Napa Valley wine country.

Facebook Learns Not To Step on Toes in Privacy Dance (NewsFactor)

NewsFactor - In what may go down in Internet history as the Facebook Privacy Scandal, the leading social-networking site over the past week took the covers off a simplified privacy policy. But some privacy advocates say it’s not enough. And some analysts expect more privacy changes to come.

Europe Warns Search Companies Over Data Retention (PC World)

PC World - Google, Microsoft and Yahoo are retaining detailed search engine data for too long and not making it sufficiently anonymous later, in violation of European law, the European Union’s data protection advisory body has warned.

Read more »

Court Orders Google to Turn Over Wi-Fi Data (PC Magazine)

PC Magazine - A U.S. court has ordered Google to turn over two copies of wireless data scooped up by the company’s Street View cars as they photographed neighborhoods, part of an escalating legal and public relations problem for the search engine giant.

Read more »

Google Wi-Fi Snooping Should Serve As Security Wakeup Call (PC World)

PC World - The continuing saga of Google’s wireless snooping and the maelstrom it’s generated won’t end anytime soon. Peeved government officials in both Europe and the U.S. are pressing Google for more details on how the search company’s Street View cars managed to cull personal data from Wi-Fi networks that weren’t password-protected.

Read more »

Google Begins Integrating AdMob with Mobile Searches (NewsFactor)

NewsFactor - Six months and a federal investigation later, Google has finally sealed the AdMob deal. On Thursday, Google announced that its acquisition of the mobile advertising company is complete.

Read more »

Rights group accuses Vietnam of stifling online dissent (AFP)

AFP - Human Rights Watch on Thursday accused Vietnam of mounting a sophisticated and sustained attack against online dissent, including detaining and intimidating anti-government bloggers.

Next Page »