Google turned the search engine into a social platform Wednesday, unveiling the long-anticipated feature +1 (pronounced Plus One). Social signals pulled from profiles and … Read the whole story

Google is working to more accurately target ads to email content in Gmail. The move goes beyond matching keywords in the email and the … Read the whole story

Microsoft officially retired AdECN and switched to the AppNexus platform for real-time bidding. This readies a move to take RTB in the display Advertising … Read the whole story

Showing social media's vastly increasing influence, Salesforce.com on Wednesday announced a deal to buy Radian6 for $340 million. Radian 6 specializes in social media … Read the whole story

Independent mobile app marketplace Appia (formerly PocketGear) has closed $10 million in third-round venture funding from Venrock. That brings the Durham, N.C.-based company's funding … Read the whole story

In what's being hailed as its biggest privacy action in almost 10 years, the Federal Trade Commission said it had charged Google with engaging … Read the whole story

The mobile video audience grew about 40% in both the third and fourth quarters of 2010, ending the year at 24.7 million, according to … Read the whole story

Wabi-Sabi Inspiration Lab, an agency with offices in Barcelona, Spain, and Bogota, Colombia, has won a creative contest for the best use of Microsoft … Read the whole story