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Google still plans to cripple ad-blocking in Chrome, but enterprises will be exempt
Google has clarified proposed changes to the Chrome browser that some developers fear will cripple ad blockers…
NBCUniversal inks deal to handle Apple News ad sales
Apple Inc. is outsourcing ad sales for Apple News to NBCUniversal…
Apple News opens the floodgates
The News app, which is baked into the iOS software that powers iPhones and iPads, aggregates news sources into one feed…
How Apple could improve their News app and turn it into an industry leader
There’s a lot of potential in News. With a few tweaks, it could become it could become the best in its field — and maybe even save the industry…
Google bans Samsung ad blocker from Google Play store
Samsung launched an Ad Blocker for its phones on the Google Play store called Adblock Fast earlier this week…
Apple plans to offer subscription content through Apple News app
Apple Inc is working to make subscription content available through its News app…
Publishers caught in the middle of Apple-Google, App-Web divide
Apple wants mobile devices to be filled with apps…
Ad-blockers prompt IAB to admit ‘we messed up’; launch L.E.A.N. Ads program
We messed up. As technologists, tasked with delivering content and services to users, we lost track of the user experience…
AMP: Accelerated Mobile Pages are Google’s response to ad blockers and news apps like Apple News
Google now sees more people searching the Web on smartphones than on desktops and laptops…
Google’s new Accelerated Mobile Pages meant to keep users in Web browsers and out of dedicated apps
Google on Wednesday announced a new open-source project dubbed Accelerated Mobile Pages…
Following Apple News, Google preps Accelerated Mobile Pages
Google Inc. unveiled a mobile publishing platform aimed at making news articles on smartphones load faster…
How Apple could change the Web forever
Here’s a basic version of how most Internet publishers make money: They produce content, they get people to click on that content, and they make money from the companies who put ads around that content…
iOS 9 adblocker apps top App Store charts; developer pulls ‘Peace’ adblocker
Less than a day after the launch of iOS 9, Apple’s latest operating system, content blocking software is at the top of the app charts worldwide…
iOS 9 content blocking will transform the mobile Web
The next version of iOS comes with a major new feature called ‘content blockers’ which will allow…
Apple’s iOS 9 ad blocking threatens Google’s lifeblood
For iOS 9 Apple introduced a couple of new technologies related to its Safari web browser…
Apple News is fast, responsive, enjoyable, and it might become your only news app
Apple News is fast, responsive and enjoyable to use…
Apple News shows that Apple wants to bolster and profit from ads, not eliminate them
Advertising is an easy target: it’s an eyesore, slows down web pages…
Apple’s support of mobile ad blocking may upend how the web works
Apple is coming for ads. It’s coming for publishers…
How Apple’s mobile ad-blocker could backfire on the company and iPhone, iPad users
Apple’s mobile ad-blocker may trigger a backlash…
iOS 9 lets app developers make ad blockers for Safari
Ad blocking extensions have been possible on Safari for Mac for a long time…
