Facebook is about to launch a new advertising program called Facebook Exchange, which could not only be a massively profitable venture for the company, but according to them, could improve the relevancy of the ads that you and I see …

Hopefully you remember the faces of the people you are close enough to Skype with. Why else would you Skype with someone in the first place, right? Well, remember those fellow Skype users’ faces well enough that you won’t forget …

As if you didn’t have enough to worry about when it comes to protecting your personal information from the jackals of the innernets, here, come have more to worry about: Microsoft and Yahoo are selling users’ personal data to political …

$1.3 billion billboard featuring advertisements from Skydive Dubai and Denver-based Go Fast energy products recently went on-display in the city. The reason for the billboard’s outrageous price tag: It features a real guy in a jet pack who flies around …

Like all the other good, well-adjusted teenagers, the internet is learning to become a more social animal. With 8.38 billion webpages available for the 2.27 billion people online across the world, there’s a lot of different things you can do …

Microsoft very much wants people to get a head start with getting familiar with its upcoming Windows 8 so that everybody hits the ground running when the operating system launches later this year. The company has been letting loose some …

The 2012 fiscal year is off to a good start for internet advertising as the first quarter welcomed a record-breaking $8.4 billion in revenue, more than any previous first quarter. The news comes by way of the semi-annual Internet Advertising …

A new study released today by comScore demonstrates that a television is no longer the only place that consumers are getting their watchable jollies thanks to computers, tablets, and smartphones all capable of delivering your favorite sitcoms and dramas. This …

Google is sharing a video about creating effective landing pages for your AdWords ads, though the tips provided could really be applied to other ads. The video is actually from last summer, but it’s still relevant today. Clearly Google still …

At time when Facebook’s potential to generate revenue from its mobile platform is largely uncertain, one of the company’s social media contemporaries seems to be doing just fine with the mobile market. Twitter CEO Dick Costolo told a group at …

Google announced today that it is integrating AdMob into AdWords, enabling its over a million AdWords advertisers to run campaigns across over 300,000 mobile apps running AdMob ads on over 350 million mobile devices. Of course, it can all be …

The Interactive Advertising Bureau and the IHS Screen Digest have sized up the mobile ad market, and have concluded that it was valued at $5.3 billion in 2011. By region, it breaks down like this: North America 31.4%; Europe 25.9%; …

Google Schemer, Google’s most recent answer to Foursquare, is now being used to bring you Google Offers. Who would have thought? “We have been pilot-testing this Google Offers integration for the past few weeks and have received wonderful feedback from …

You know how everyone is worried about Facebook’s ability to monetize their mobile platform in this tenuous post-IPO period? Today, they might have just taken a significant step in at least moving in the direction of assuaging some of those …

The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service has announced it’s considering adding Mark Zuckerberg’s trademark grin to the list of endangered species, the agency said in a statement today. Public sightings and documentation of his grin in the wild have diminished …

[WARNING: Mad Men Season 5 spoilers ahead] This season of AMC’s Mad Men has been thrilling, poignant, heartbreaking, surprising, and might possibly have catapulted the show back into the title of “Best on TV” (apologies to Game of Thrones). Each …

In April, Google announced that DoubleClick Search V3 would soon provide users with the ability to report on search queries. Today, Google announced that on May 31, the search query reporting feature was released to all customers. “This powerful new …

Google has big plans for local businesses, and making billions for itself in the process. Google announced a major Google+ push into local search last week, when it revealed Google+ Local, which effectively turns Google+ business pages into the new …

In May, Google made some changes to how ad rotation works in AdWords, changing it to a 30-day period, at which point AdWords would optimize to show higher performing creatives. After some users expressed concerns, Google announced today that it …

You might recall that General Motors recently pulled all their advertising from Facebook’s pages and claimed that the ads weren’t really working for them. Of course, GM’s actions took place just days before Facebook’s much anticipated initial public offering, so …

When Microsoft’s Windows 8 arrives to a computer near you it will have Internet Explorer 10 in tow, and with that browser will come a “Do Not Track” feature that will automatically be turned on. The privacy tool, which was …