Many blogs depend on the practice of sharing for survival, or at least profitability; they can’t count on millions of people to find their own way to every article.  And it turns out that, when it comes to “share” buttons, popular blogs depend more on Twitter’s than any other option out there. We’re going to [...]

Offering loyalty incentives, such as discounts on monthly fees, service upgrades and other benefits, provides a significant boost in customer satisfaction with fixed and mobile broadband Internet service providers (ISPs) in the UK, according to a new report by J.D. Power and Associates. Around 15 percent of fixed broadband customers and 16 percent of mobile [...]

Yahoo is closing the doors on the Yahoo Publisher Network. The Yahoo Publisher Network was launched in the summer of 2005, and never left beta status. The YPN lets publishers display ads that are relevant to the content of their site, and earn money based on the clicks, much like Google’s AdSense program. The program [...]

Google has launched a new site to showcase its latest innovations in advertising. It’s called, appropriately, Google Ad Innovations. “The principle behind the advertising products we build at Google is simple: ads are information,” says Vice President, Product Management Susan Wojcicki. “But the type of information that ads provide is getting more varied and inventive [...]

The principle behind the advertising products we build at Google is simple: ads are information. But the type of information that ads provide is getting more varied and inventive all the time, and as a result ads are getting more interesting, social and useful. As advertising evolves, we want to build the tools that make [...]

Smartphone adoption in the EU5 (U.K., France, Germany, Spain, Italy) has grown 32 percent compared to a year ago to 51.6 million subscribers, according to a new report from comScore. Growth can bee seen across the range of monthly subscription fees, but the mid to low tier is growing faster that high tier subscriptions in [...]

Google and Apple have clashed a number of times in recent months, and a Taiwanese hardware manufacturer is poised to ensure that the two companies butt heads yet again.  Asus has indicated that it will challenge the iPad with a tablet PC powered by either Android or Chrome OS. Elizabeth Woyke talked to Asus chairman [...]

Popular Twilight author Stephenie Meyer said on her website her next book “The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner” will be available as both a physical book and online. The book will be available for purchase in bookstores on Saturday, June 5 in hardcover for $13.99 and free online starting at noon on June 7 [...]

Social media marketing is largely about engaging with your audience, and a big part of that is knowing where your audience is. A lot of brands may find that their audience is easiest to reach through forums, which are kind of the old school social networks. There’s no question that there is a lot of [...]

Google said it has detected malware targeting Vietnamese-language users opposed to bauxite mining in the Communist country. The malware infected the computers of “potentially tens of thousands of users” who downloaded Vietnamese keyboard language software, Google Security Team member Neel Mehta wrote on the company’s security blog. The attacks targeted opposition to the mining of [...]