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Microsoft slams new Google policy

Mike Andrew — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 01:23:40 +0000

Microsoft has taken out full-page newspaper adverts to criticise changes to Google’s policies. Google has touted the changes it announced last week as a simplification of detailed but obtuse...

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Google reveals action over Mosley

Mike Andrew — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 05:15:47 +0000

Google has removed hundreds of web pages relating to former Formula 1 boss Max Mosley’s sex life from its search results index, Britain’s Leveson Inquiry on press standards has heard....

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Twitter to censor itself in some nations

Mike Andrew — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 04:30:00 +0000

Twitter has refined its technology so it can censor messages on a country-by-country basis. The additional flexibility is likely to raise fears that the short-messaging company’s commitment to...

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Facebook forces users to change profiles

Mike Andrew — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 04:24:56 +0000

Facebook will start requiring people to switch to a new profile format known as Timeline, making photos, links and personal musings from the past much easier to find. Timeline is [...]

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McDonald’s Twitter promotion backfires

Mike Andrew — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 23:26:16 +0000

A McDonald’s Twitter promotion backfired after customers hijacked the hash-tag #McDStories, using it to share horror stories instead. The fast food giant launched the 24-hour promotional...

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‘Downturn Shoppers’ Look to Digital for Savings

Mike Andrew — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 23:18:41 +0000

Price-conscious consumers do more online research, download coupons and compare prices in-store via smartphones Despite some bright spots on the economic horizon, shopping remains more of a battle...

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Marketers Follow Users to More Social Sites

Mike Andrew — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 22:46:11 +0000

Marketing efforts spreading beyond Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn Social media sites beyond Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn are seeing significant boosts in usage, both in the US and elsewhere in the...

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US lawmakers abandoning online piracy bill

Mike Andrew — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 06:44:00 +0000

Five days before a critical vote, US senators are abandoning an anti-piracy bill after an outpouring of online opposition to tinkering with internet freedoms. Senate Democratic leaders still plan to...

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SOPA blackout: Bills lose three co-sponsors amid protests

Mike Andrew — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 01:06:33 +0000

In case you missed all the news on the proposed bill to Stop On Line Piracy, or SOPA as it has become known, is a bill that was introduced into [...]

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China web users hits 513 million

Mike Andrew — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 05:24:30 +0000

The number of internet users in China has surged past 500 million as millions of new web surfers go online using mobile phones and tablet computers, an industry group reports. [...]

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