Perhaps if Google had taken its own ‘don’t be evil’ motto to heart…
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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…
Apple plans to offer subscription content through Apple News app
Apple Inc is working to make subscription content available through its News app…
Apple phasing out its in-house iAd sales team in favor of new publisher-driven system
Apple is getting out of the advertising-sales business and shifting to a more automated platform…
Instagram said to test next-gen ads that leverage Apple’s 3D Touch, Apple Pay; Instagram denies
Facebook-owned Instagram is reportedly testing ads that exploit two of Apple’s most recent technologies, 3D Touch and Apple Pay…
Alphabet, formerly Google, sets share buyback, shares surge
Alphabet Inc., introduced its first share buyback and beat Wall Street’s profit forecast…
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…
No Safe Harbor: EU privacy ruling hits Apple, Google, Facebook, others
A major European court victory for privacy advocates raises doubts about how U.S. tech giants Apple, Alphabet-owned Google and Facebook…
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…
UK Supreme Court allows Google to appeal ruling granting Apple Safari users the right to sue over ad tracking
The UK’s Supreme Court has granted Google permission to appeal against…
Google’s war against apps: Google’s battle to erode the importance of apps intensifies
Google last fall secretly acquired an ‘app streaming’ startup called Agawi…
EU parliament ‘poised to call’ for Google’s breakup
The European parliament is poised to call for a break-up of Google…
Apple opens iAd mobile-ads service to automated partners
Apple Inc. is opening its advertising services to partners…
Google launches ‘Contributor’ ad-free net experiment
Google has unveiled a project that offers web users the option to pay…
Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp: Google is a ‘platform for piracy’
Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp weighed into the debate over a proposed EU settlement
Apple poised to add four digital advertising agencies
Apple is set to add four digital agencies to its roster…
Apple bringing full-screen video iAds to iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch
Coming to an iPad near you: iAds that look a lot like TV ads…
Apple’s stinginess with user info hurting iAd sales, sources say
There are few companies as admired, beloved and dominant…
Google to pay $17 million to settle U.S. states’ Safari user tracking probe
Google Inc will pay $17 million to settle allegations by 37 states…
Judge dismisses case against Google over Safari user tracking
It just got even tougher to stop a company from tracking your movements online…
Google sales miss estimates as ad fees per click fall
Google Inc., owner of the world’s most popular Internet search engine, reported profit…
Google requires people to use Google+ social network, gains ground against Facebook
Google Inc is challenging Facebook Inc. by using a controversial tactic…
Online advertising spending to surpass newspapers and magazines combined by 2015
Online advertising expenditures will continue to lead the market…
Apple touts success of its Land Rover iAd campaign (with video)
Land Rover America’s communications director Ken Bracht…
Google shares rise as ad business performs well despite slow economy
Shares of Google Inc rose 3 percent in premarket trade on Friday after the company …
Yahoo axes 2,000 employees, 14 percent of its workforce
Yahoo is laying off 2,000 employees as new CEO Scott Thompson eliminates jobs…
WSJ: Google tracked iPhone, iPad users, bypassing Apple’s Safari browser privacy settings; Microsoft denounces
Safari normally blocks cookies used by ad networks and others to track people…