Three creepy stories about invasive ads have popped up in the last two months. The lesson? Don't casually dismiss the privacy concerns surrounding targeted advertising.
Yahoo’s betting that good patents trump great products, as the company sues Facebook for 10 counts of patent infringement.
Gowalla, which got its start at South by Southwest three years ago, has gone dark for this year’s festival.
A new patent troll last week fired a shot at Facebook, Zynga and others with a lawsuit that claims rights to in-game payments—the process that lets players buy and sell virtual items within a video game.
President Obama isn’t the only one taking online privacy seriously. According to a new poll from the Pew Internet & American Life Project, social network users were far more likely to take steps to protect their privacy in 2011 than they were two years earlier.
Microsoft is swinging at Google while the company’s down by attacking the search giant for bypassing user privacy settings in Internet Explorer. This, of course, comes after all of the drama with Apple’s Safari, when Stanford researcher Jonathan Mayer discovered that Google bypassed that browser’s privacy settings to track users across the web using cookies.
Did you wake up and find that your Twitter account looked a little different? You’re not alone: Twitter has announced that all of its users now have the new design that began rolling out back in December.
If you haven’t played Angry Birds, and I realize the chances of that are approaching zero, they’ve finally made their way over to Facebook. Who knows why it had to be “just in time for Valentine’s Day,” but there it is, like a song the radio stations can’t stop playing.
You may not think you’re sharing with many people when using Facebook’s “Friends of Friends” privacy setting, but two degrees of separation actually goes a long way.
It’s large and in charge: Facebook Timeline’s here to stay, so do you love it or hate it? Mostly hate it, according to a security firm poll of more than 4,000 Facebook users.
It’s on — at least partially: Reddit has announced that it will be going dark for 12 hours to protest the Stop Online Piracy Act, and Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has said that he hopes to coordinate with the site so that Wikipedia does the same. Will other sites join in? Should we prepare for the Great Internet Strike of 2012?
