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German Court Comes Down On Google's Thumbnail Images

Either Google Germany's lawyers aren't up to snuff, or they're just stuck in a really hostile environment.  Regardless, a new report indicates that two court rulings would have Google stop showing certain thumbnail images in its search results.

Newsweek Bundles Political Coverage For Kindle

Well, here’s an unexpected benefit of the digital era for print publications: Newsweek will be publishing digital anthologies of its election coverage as ebooks on Amazon’s Kindle. Essentially, that’s a nice repurposing of content that will be pure profit, something print publications need a little of these days. Consider this one of the early moves of a major print publications to evolve in a digital environment.

Online Newspaper Advertising Sees Slowdown

The growth in online newspaper advertising, the one area that has been a reliable source of revenue for the industry is now slowing down.After 17 quarters of growth, online newspaper advertising fell 2.4 percent in the second quarter compared with last year, to $777 million according to the Newspaper Association of America (NAA)It was the only year-over-year decrease since the NAA began tracking online revenue in 2003.

Hope You Weren't Too Attached to Twitter Instant Messaging

It seems like Twitter is always acknowledging its shortcomings and apologizing for them. Some might take this as a weakness, but I tend to look at it admirably. Not many companies would be so straightforward when it comes to taking responsibility for their missteps.

Yahoo Improves Content Match Technology

Search Yahoo News for the term [advertising recession], and you'll see about 1,200 results.  But things could be worse, as another arm of the company is seeking to address the problem with some upgrades to its Content Match advertising product.

MySpace Announces MyAds

Last month, we reported that MySpace had launched a new self-serve advertising platform, but it was officially announced last night with a name - MyAds (beta). With this platform, users are able to create their own display banner ads with the following advantages working for them (as cited by the social network):

Twitter A Tool For Thieves?

Some small alarms have been raised over the possibility that Twitter and social media like it could be used as information sources for those with nefarious purposes.

World Bank Hacking - Great Timing

The world bank has been hacked repeatedly over the last year according to a report on Dark Reading, which once again brings out the question, where was the information security team on this one?

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