Facebook said Friday it will pull the plug on its troubled Beacon ad program, which tells members about their friends' off-site e-commerce activity, in … Read the whole story
Omniture and comScore plan to unveil a partnership Monday that creates a service giving the online advertising industry a more comprehensive view of data … Read the whole story
The Oklahoma energy company Oneok filed a lawsuit this week against Twitter for allegedly allowing an impostor to create an account on the service. … Read the whole story
Adobe Systems is rolling out a new set of services allowing advertisers and publishers to distribute Flash-based applications across social networks, mobile devices and … Read the whole story
Adify Monday unveiled new expandable ad formats that will allow advertisers to run more eye-catching campaigns across its vertical ad network. The larger, flashier … Read the whole story
Search engine marketing firm Relevant Searches Monday plans to release SEO services that it believes squeeze more profit from campaigns by putting marketers in … Read the whole story
Microsoft will launch a pilot this month to test new paid search ad formats using logos and favicons embedded in listings. The icons expand … Read the whole story
Simon Waterfall, one of the cofounders of the agency Poke, has stepped down from the company he helped start. Waterfall was recently named among … Read the whole story
When the Federal Communications Commission asked Apple why it had blocked Google's voice app from the iPhone store, Apple insisted that the app hadn't … Read the whole story
Online ad services company ValueClick on Monday is expected to launch a vertical ad network targeting moms. "Moms control 80 percent of all household … Read the whole story
The Department of Justice has said that a proposed far-reaching deal between Google and authors and publishers shouldn't go forward in its current form. … Read the whole story