Google's premature third-quarter earnings release stirred the investment community Thursday by reporting 20% declining profits and sliding advertising prices. Overall, Google reported consolidated revenue … Read the whole story

ABI Research projects mobile payments powered by Near Field Communications will jump from $4 billion this year to more than $100 billion by 2016 … Read the whole story

AOL this week is unveiling Alto --- a cloud-based email product, which will attempt to organize users' disparate email accounts. The new product is … Read the whole story

In a defeat for Best Buy, a federal appeals court ruled this week that the company violated a telemarketing law by making robocalls that … Read the whole story

For four days beginning Monday night, Boston-based MITX (the Massachusetts Innovation & Technology Exchange) will play host to FutureM, a week of events, conferences, … Read the whole story

Internet, outdoor, and TV continued to be the top media categories making gains globally in advertising dollars. TV holds the biggest share of advertising … Read the whole story

Work is still required to interpret graphs and visual tools to understand what the data means and how to act on it. Graphs do … Read the whole story

eMarketer is predicting triple-digit rates of growth over the next few years for "proximity payments," using phones as a payment vehicle at retail points … Read the whole story