If you are an advertiser using Google AdWords you need to pay attention to the latest Google update. Advertisers can now target mobile devices that are using WiFi, as well as target what type of OS the mobile phone has. more…
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Twitter is now officially speaking out against Google’s new search features that give prominent placement to content from its own social network, Google+.
In a statement, Twitter complained that “people, publishers, news organizations and Twitter users” would suffer from not being more…
Facebook has announced its 2012 Hacker Cup, a global computer programming competition. The event will serve as an important recruiting tool to attract great coders to the company, which is constantly battling for fresh engineering talent more…
Last week Google announced that Googlebot-Mobile now crawls with a smartphone user-agent in addition to the previous feature phone users-agents. The information crawled will be used in mobile search to improve user experience. The new crawler will optimize content displayed on smartphones where it is specifically made for smartphones. more…
Tis the season for top 10 lists. I guess I’m playing right into the cliche. However instead of looking back at “best of” fodder, I recently decided to partake in some forward looking speculation – what us analysts do best (or worst).
What can we expect in mobile and local in 2012? more…
Google has launched a series of new rich media ad formats, designed to engage tablet and mobile users. Consumers “have higher expectations of ads on tablets, believing they should be more interactive and touch screen friendly,” they said in a Google Mobile Ads blog post announcing the new ads. more…
Google’s Android Market has delivered its 10 billionth application download, and is in the midst of celebrating with 10 days of special promotions during which selected apps will be offered for 10 cents.
The milestone comes just five months after the 6 billionth download, and Google estimates that current Android Market transactions total over 1 billion a month. more…
The BBC aired a one hour profile of Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg on Sunday (if you’re in the UK, you can watch it here). All in all, most of you will have heard every detail shared before; aside from perhaps one question, does Mark Zuckerberg really see Google+ as a threat? more…
I was recently questioned by a colleague who was surprised to learn after all the talk about mobile apps and smartphones, that Google doesn’t have a library of apps. By that, I mean Google lacks native apps for platforms like iOS, Blackberry, Windows Phone, and yes, Android. more…
Google has decided to combine its payment-oriented services. Google Checkout users will be prompted to migrate to Google Wallet on their next login, while webmasters will be guided through a transition early next year. more…
A couple years ago, we heard a rumor that Microsoft viewed Google Apps as the number-one threat to its enterprise business. Apparently, whenever a big Microsoft customer announced a plan to use Gmail or Google Apps, Microsoft would sic a special team on them to try and change their mind. more…
Google’s DoubleClick is partnering with Google’s AdMob to bring in-app mobile inventory to the DoubleClick Ad Exchange. A proliferation of mobile inventory is infiltrating exchanges, and the introduction of new app inventory into the more…
