• Google Shelves Nexus One Direct Sales by Mark Walsh

    Google today announced plans to stop selling the Nexus One direct, conceding defeat in its ambitious effort to offer its own smartphone directly online. In a blog post, Andy Rubin, head of the company's Android division, said Google will switch to selling the phone through existing retail channels and will stop selling handsets online completely once the Nexus One is more widely available in stores. ...Read the whole story

  • Righthaven Files More Lawsuits Amid Questions About Group's Agenda by Wendy Davis

    Copyright enforcement group Righthaven has filed two more lawsuits against Web site operators for allegedly copying and linking to articles that originally appeared in the Las Vegas Review-Journal. In the latest lawsuits, against the nonprofit Ecological Internet and the operator of the sports betting site madjacksports.com, Righthaven says it obtained the copyrights to the newspapers' articles. ...Read the whole story

  • Where's That Ad Campaign? Yahoo Traffic Dips In April by Mark Walsh

    Yahoo had better get that new ad blitz cranked up. New figures from Nielsen on Friday show the Web portal with month-to-month declines in traffic, time spent and video viewership in April. ...Read the whole story

  • Facebook Friends' Names Leak Into Search Engine Results by Laurie Sullivan

    Facebook members have begun to realize that the ramifications of not opting-in to privacy controls that lock down information in profiles may go well beyond their control. The old adage that every action has consequences appears to have surfaced in Google search engine results. ...Read the whole story

  • Google Collects Personal Data, Apologizes by Laurie Sullivan

    Google admitted Friday collecting small pieces of private information that people have sent through unencrypted wireless networks, and has contacted authorities in those countries to determine how to quickly dispose of it. ...Read the whole story

  • Adify Licenses NetSeer Technology To Lift Ad Conversions by Laurie Sullivan

    The ad industry continues to automate systems to squeeze every dollar from campaigns to improve return on investments. Ad network Adify will announce this week that it has licensed NetSeer's Contextual Services and concept-based analysis technology to better predict sites where ads will attract consumers to produce best. ...Read the whole story

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