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Facebook Dealing With a Click Fraud and Data Access Lawsuit

It’s a saga we’re all familiar with by now: create a pretty awesome web service, start a trend, become a media sweetheart, make lots of money (VC or acquisition), get slapped with a lawsuit. Or two. Or fifty billion. Facebook added two more lawsuits to its heap recently: a countersuit from Power.com and a click fraud proceeding.

Facebook Deals With Some Click Fraud Problems

Facebook is charging hard toward hitting that $550 million in revenue number that was put in front of potential investors recently. Of course, their pay per click model of advertising is going to be a critical component of getting there.

Click Fraud Frequency Drops, But Grows Up

When your business relies on an increasing trend in click fraud, what do you do when the bottom drops out of the numbers?

Click Fraud Is At An All Time High

Click Forensics has released a study showing that click fraud has hit 17.1%, an all-time high. For those of you who are unfamiliar, click fraud represents the act of clicking on a web advertisement to inflate click-through rates.

eBay and PayPal Explain Item Holds

Monroe Labouisse, the director of PayPal’s business on eBay in the US and Canada sat down with eBay's chief Blogger Richard Brewer-Hay and sketched out this post explaining the policies behind eBay Item Holds. An eBay Item Hold is when eBay asks PayPal to hold a payment in a seller's PayPal account for up to 21 days. This occurs as a "buyer protection" when eBay believes the transaction is more likely than the average transaction to be fraudulent.

Busted: Eight Ex-AOL Execs Charged With Ad Revenue Fraud

Former AOL Time Warner CFO John Michael Kelly and seven other people were charged by the Securities and Exchange Commission with causing the overstatement of ad revenue by over a billion dollars.

Scammers Target Craigslist Realtor

Newspaper classifieds have a friend in scammers. Though hemorrhaging sales to Craigslist, fraudulent posters there may drive legitimate businesspeople back to where they've done business for decades.

Ex-Microsoft Manager Charged With Fraud

Former Microsoft employee Carolyn M. Gudmundson, has been charged with defrauding the company of $1 million and will plead not guilty her attorney said.

Fraud Trial Scuttled By Ebay Employee

A UK man on trial for defrauding eBay users received a break yesterday when an employee for eBay left the country before offering key testimony.

Your Search Ad: No Search, But You Paid Google

When is a search ad click not really a click? According to Richard Ball of Apogee Web Consulting, it's when someone clicks an ad on a parked domain to reach a site. So why is Google charging for these as ad clicks?