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A Best-Selling Phone? It’s Not Just a Good Phone

Making a good phone isn't enough to compete in the brutal handset market. Just ask HTC, BlackBerry, Nokia and just about any company that isn't Apple. Chetan Sharma, an independent telecommmunications...

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Why Big Data Is Not Truth

Don't let the rhetoric fool you, a Microsoft researcher says: Big Data is a human tool, which means it is subject to all kinds of miscollection, misapplication and abuse. While it is being promoted as...

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A Feature Film, Starring Google

In "The Internship," a comedy movie starring Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson as Google interns, Google's products and perks make cameo appearances and some lines sound as if they were written by the...

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New Ways Marketers Are Manipulating Data to Influence You

Information from social media, credit card histories and Web habits helps marketers create advertisements that are increasingly personalized and nuanced. … Read More

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Ways to Make Your Online Tracks Harder to Follow

There are ways to minimize our digital footprints and at least nominally impede surveillance. … Read More

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Motorola Ad Seems to Catch the ‘Made in U.S.A.’ Bug From Apple

In an advertisement promoting Motorola Mobility's new smartphone, it borrows familiar themes from Apple, including the emphasis that it is made in America. … Read More

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How Pay-Per-Gaze Advertising Could Work With Google Glass

Google was awarded a patent last week that many think could connect Glass with advertising. But a patent is one thing; turning that into a feature could take a while. … Read More

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Daily Report: Automakers Embrace Augmented Reality for Virtual Showrooms

Automakers, facing reluctance by young buyers to visit showrooms, are using a digital marketing tool to bring the showroom to them. … Read More

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Daily Report: Acxiom Draws Aside (a Bit) the Veil of Data Gathering

A Web site introduced by a marketing technology firm offers individual consumers a glimpse of some of the details the company has collected about them, though critics call it insufficient. … Read More

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Daily Report: F.T.C. Raises Questions About Facebook’s New Privacy Policy

Facebook, which has repeatedly tripped over its own feet when changing its privacy practices, has stumbled yet again. … Read More

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Twitter’s Magic Recs Experiment Personalizes What You Follow

Twitter is working on a new way to show its users new and interesting Twitter accounts. But so far only a tiny number of Twitter users know about it. … Read More

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Daily Report: Social Networks Battle to Be the Center of Talk About TV

Facebook and Twitter both aspire to become the nation's digital water cooler, the better to woo networks and advertisers. … Read More

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Facebook Shifts Its Rules on Privacy for Teenagers

Teenagers will be able to share posts with everyone, not just their friends, a new policy that simultaneously gives youths more freedom and improves Facebook's ability to market to them. … Read More

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Social TV Ads (Sort of) Come to Facebook

A social advertising company is offering a new product that will synchronize ads to run on television and Facebook at the same time. It offers modest competition to Twitter, which has a more...

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Samsung Electronics Fined for Fake Online Comments

A Taiwanese trade agency has punished Samsung Electronics for paying people to post fake online comments that mocked its competitor, HTC, the struggling handset maker. The South Korean manufacturer...

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Instagram Will Begin Showing Ads in the Photo Stream

The popular photo and video sharing service owned by Facebook will begin showing ads to its 60 million users in the United States in the next week. … Read More

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Helpouts From Google Connects People With Experts Over Live Video

Acknowledging that its search engine cannot answer everybody's questions, particularly in the age of social networking, Google introduced Helpouts, for live, one-on-one video chats with experts. … Read...

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Fewer Gmail Users Are Opening Retailers’ Messages This Shopping Season

Changes to Gmail are challenging e-commerce marketers this holiday shopping season, by cloaking information about who opens retailers' emails and driving down the number of people who open them in the...

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Why Hire A P.R. Firm When There’s TaskRabbit?

As smartphone apps like TaskRabbit and Sidebar create a new, freelance labor force, some are starting to use the services in lieu of public relations or traditional advertising to market their...

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AT&T Allows Advertisers to Sponsor Mobile Data

Businesses working with AT&T can pay for the data that is used to consume their content or services so that it does not show up on a customer’s phone bill. … Read More

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Daily Report: Yahoo’s Revenue Falls, Though Alibaba’s Rises On

The Internet portal and web publisher said its fourth-quarter revenue was $1.27 billion, down 6 percent from the same quarter a year ago. … Read More

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The Other Super Bowl Contest: Twitter vs. Facebook

Advertisers were chattering far more on Twitter than on Facebook during the big game, according to a social media platform that analyzed the traffic. … Read More

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Dear HTC: Please Don’t Make a Wearable Device

HTC is hinting at a smart watch. But is that a very good idea? … Read More

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Did Anyone Look at That Ad?

Google and comScore, two leaders in online advertising, announce a partnership to help web advertisers figure out in real time who is looking at their ads. … Read More

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Daily Report: Facebook Settlement on Ads and Privacy Comes Under Fire

A class-action settlement intended to ensure that Facebook obtains consent before using people’s images or other data in ads is about to receive another legal challenge. … Read More

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Daily Report: Mixed Responses at Microsoft to Rise of New Strategy Chief

Mark Penn has spent years spinning for politicians. Now his own career is the subject of spin at Microsoft, where he has been named chief strategy officer. … Read More

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U.S. and California Officials Enter Battle Over Facebook Privacy Settlement

Critics say a judge erred when he accepted Facebook’s argument that a federal privacy law for children under 13 preempted state protections for older children. See original article:  U.S. and...

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Twitter and Facebook Wield Little Influence on TV Watching

New research suggests that when Americans decide to watch a television show, they’re not paying much attention to social networks. See the original post:  Twitter and Facebook Wield Little Influence...

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Daily Report: Google’s Results Disappoint as Ads Are Less Profitable

As Internet users migrate to mobile devices, Google earns less on its ads, and as the dominant player, the company is finding that growth opportunities are increasingly rare. Original post: Daily...

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Google Plans to Show Ads Through Your Thermostat and Car

According to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Google wants to put advertisements on your thermostat, in your car and on your refrigerator. Follow this link:   Google Plans to Show...

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Daily Report: Mobile Advertising Lifts Profit at Facebook

Mobile devices accounted for nearly two-thirds of the social networking company’s revenue, which rose 61 percent over the second quarter of 2013. Read article here: Daily Report: Mobile Advertising...

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Daily Report: World Cup Gives Twitter a Lift

Twitter has demonstrated an ability to extract more ad revenue from each user, and it is adding products that let it sell ads in other companies’ apps. Credit: Daily Report: World Cup Gives Twitter a...

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Can Foursquare Crack Local Search?

A start-up in search of a formula that works is trying to become a sort of local guide tailored to your tastes. Original post:  Can Foursquare Crack Local Search?

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