by Mark Walsh
                                        
                                    Average mobile marketing budgets will increase 26% this year even as overall marketing expenditures decline by 7% this year, according to new research presented … Read the whole story

                                        
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                                            by The Riff
                                        
                                    Porn has been a great innovation driver when it comes to the Internet. The Bing search engine now joins the great pantheon of porn-based … Read the whole story
                                        
                                            by Laurie Sullivan
                                        
                                    YouTube has redesigned its user interface, removing the "social" tools from the site to make it easier for people to view consumer-generated videos on … Read the whole story
                                        
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                                            by Rob Crumpler
                                        
                                    Social media has completely redefined the nature of the consumer-business relationship. From dining out to buying in, people are increasingly living out their daily … Read the whole story
                                        
                                            by Mark Walsh
                                        
                                    In its latest bid to boost ad revenue, Digg plans to roll out a new ad unit that appears as a sponsored story on … Read the whole story
                                        
                                            by Wendy Davis
                                        
                                    Web "bugs" reside everywhere, privacy policies mislead users, and most people have no way of knowing which companies are tracking them: That's according to … Read the whole story
                                        
                                            by Gavin O'Malley
                                        
                                    BeeTV, a Milan, Italy-based TV recommendation engine, has raised $8 million in Series B funding from Italian VC firm Innogest. The white label product … Read the whole story
                                        
                                            by Laurie Sullivan
                                        
                                    Alcatel-Lucent's venture touchatag and Belgian m-payment company PingPing have joined efforts to promote application development for cashless payments and services. The two companies will … Read the whole story
                                        
                                            by Wendy Davis
                                        
                                    Handing MySpace another in a string of courtroom victories, a federal court in Texas has thrown out another lawsuit against the site stemming from … Read the whole story
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                                            by Gavin O'Malley
                                        
                                    
PubMatic, which helps publishers optimize inventory sold through ad networks, on Wednesday debuted a new application to help publishers analyze and evaluate all ads … Read the whole story