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Google Promises To Stop Trawling Student Gmail For Ads
Google announced Wednesday that it will no longer sift through the Gmail messages of students, business users and government bureaucrats for targeted advertising purposes—at least for those using its...
View ArticleSpammy Ads That Hijack Your Smartphone Are Now A Virtual Plague
In the past two weeks I have been forced into Apple's App Store not once, not twice—but five times from a handful of different websites. At first I thought it was a human error—like, maybe my large...
View ArticleOK, Google—Uniting Twitch With YouTube Could Be Great, So Don't Screw It Up
YouTube is acquiring live video-game streaming service Twitch for $1 billion, entertainment magazine Variety reports, which would make it the largest acquisition for YouTube to date. Such a...
View ArticleGoogle: Your Nest Will Not Turn Into A Billboard
Practically everything is a billboard to Google, but there’s one thing that shouldn't be: Your Nest. See also: Google Has New Targeted Ads That Encourage You To Dive Into Apps A December letter to the...
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How Pinterest Is Slowly Learning How To Make Money
Pinterest has never been in a hurry to convert investor dollars into financial gains—and given that it's raised close to three-quarters of a billion dollars over the past five years, it hasn't needed...
View ArticlePinterest Wants You To Be Your Own Advertiser
Pinterest’s Promoted Pins are great for big brands, but what about medium to small ones? Now there’s an offering scaled just to them—a new do-it-yourself Promoted Pins tool. Pinterest for Business was...
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YouTube May Be Winning The World And Losing Its Soul
Just as YouTube isn’t just about Gangnam Style and viral videos of animals eating burritos, the online-video conclave VidCon, which kicks off a little little later today in Anaheim, Calif., isn't just...
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YouTube Is Chasing Hollywood—But It Should Worry About Its Homegrown Stars
In her keynote address at VidCon, YouTube's unofficial, annual convention, Susan Wojcicki, the Google executive who took over the video site this year, looked over a packed audience at the Anaheim...
View ArticleZillow Kills Competition With $3.5 Billion Trulia Deal
It takes more than “Zestimates” and other zippy technology to make money in real-estate listings, as evidenced by the $3.5 billion in stock that Zillow agreed to drop in order to snap up its chief...
View ArticleFlipboard's Mike McCue On The Future Of Digital Media, Video Ads
With over 100 million active accounts and 10 million user-created digital magazines, Flipboard has changed the way people read and share news around the Web. The application lets users aggregate social...
View ArticleJust How Creepy Can Targeted Ads Get? New Tool Promises To Tell You
Ever find yourself scrolling through a website and seeing an advertisement that’s a little too well-targeted? You know, as if the advertiser knew you recently twisted your ankle and need to buy some...
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Facebook Still Thinks It Can Make Apps Work More Like The Web
It’s still impossible to use mobile applications the same way people use Web browsers. Apps each live in their own silos, and unless they’re produced by the same company—like Foursquare and...
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Instagram Launches Advertising Analytics
Instagram is making it possible for businesses to find out just how well their advertising performs.On Thursday, the company rolled out a suite of business tools to manage ad campaigns. Account...
View ArticleYour Twitter Gender Is Probably Male, Even If You're Female
Twitter, unlike Facebook, never asks users to share their gender. Yet its recently-public Analytics tool can tell you, among other demographics, the male-female ratio of your followers. That's because...
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Facebook Says It Will Actually Listen To Your Ad Feedback Now
Maybe you told Facebook why you hid an ad in the past, but the social network didn't really use that information to change the ads it showed you. That's changed. On Thursday, Facebook announced two new...
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Stop Press! Ello Is Not Made Of Gumdrops And Kittens
Hyperbolic headlines heralding a mass exodus from Facebook to Ello gave way to tears and rending of cloth on Thursday when it became clear the shiny new social network does not, in fact, fart unicorns...
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Facebook Wants To Be Creepier Than Google With Your Data
In an ever-escalating battle to own the Internet, Facebook is going after Google's digital advertising empire, using your personal information as ammunition.Atlas, the ad-serving platform Facebook...
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Ello Was Briefly Over—For Almost An Hour
Ello went temporarily dark over the weekend due to a possible distributed denial of service (DDOS) attack by an unknown actor. Total downtime: 45 minutes. See also: What The Ell Is Ello? The Ad-Free...
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Pinterest May Start To Act Like Facebook, If You're Not Careful
Pinterest is unveiling some changes that will make it behave a lot more like Facebook, that is, if users choose to opt in. Beginning on October 19, Pinterest will use information gleaned from your...
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Facebook Ads Are About To Start Following You Everwhere
Facebook ads may soon start following you everywhere. On Tuesday, the company announced that the Facebook Audience Network, announced at F8 in April, is available to the world.This new ad network lets...
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