With a mobile audience reaching 200 million users worldwide, Facebook unveiled several new initiatives to capitalize on its fast-growing presence beyond the desktop. The … Read the whole story

Google took another step Wednesday toward creating a massive mobile ad network by feeding AdMob with Google AdSense ads. When the mobile network -- … Read the whole story

Aggressive cost-cutting and asset sales helped AOL increase third-quarter earnings by over 130% -- from $74 million to $171 million, the company said Wednesday. … Read the whole story

Moving the advertising industry into the next phase of accountability, Google and Marin Technologies released separate platforms this week integrating call center activity with … Read the whole story

Handing a blow to gaming developer Zynga, a judge has denied the company's motion to dismiss a consumer's potential class-action lawsuit about "scam ads" … Read the whole story

Location-based services such as Foursquare and Gowalla have attracted loads of publicity and investors' dollars, but so far relatively few users. Only 4% of … Read the whole story

Facebook told federal lawmakers that it prohibits developers from transferring users' names to other companies and deploys a "suite of sophisticated tools to detect … Read the whole story