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Brief: Apple acquires its own mobile ad firm to one-up Google
Not long after Google announced it had acquired mobile advertising firm AdMob, Apple has announced the acquisition of its own mobile advertising firm, Quattro Wireless. The announcement came today just after All Things D broke the rumo...
Liveblog: Google Android Press Event
MOUNTAIN VIEW—Ars is on-site at the Google HQ for an Android-related press event that kicks off at 10:00am PT (click here to see when the event happens in your timezone). Though it hasn't been officially confirmed, it's all...
Google under fire for nuking blogs after spam reports
Google has measures in place to ensure that legitimate blogs can't get mistakenly taken offline as spam, but they're apparently not enough to prevent certain Blogger sites from being caught in the crossfire. The recent plight of o...
How to beat Google in a domain name dispute
Google has filed 64 domain name disputes with the National Arbitration Forum since 2001. It has won 62 times, arguing that the names in question were confusingly similar to its own. But on Christmas Eve, Google suffered its se...
Google opens satellite images, tools, to study deforestation
With the advent of commercial satellite imaging, it has become possible to track developments that were once exclusively the domain of space and spy agencies. Groups like the Federation of American Scientists and the American ...
Mozilla exec urges Firefox users ditch Google for Bing
Asa Dotzler, Mozilla's director of community development, used his personal blog to urge Firefox users away from Google and to use Microsoft's search engine Bing, instead. Dotzler cited privacy concerns, specifically pointing to...
Bing ads over 75% more likely to be clicked than Google ads
A month after Bing launched in May 2009, Chitika Research reported that Bing's click-through rate (CTR) was 50 percent better than Google's. We thought this wasn't much of a big deal, as Bing was only one month old, but new data...
iPhone and Android in two-horse smartphone OS race
The latest Mobile Metrics report for mobile ad firm AdMob reveals some interesting aspects of the emerging smartphone market, as redefined by Apple's iPhone in 2007. For one, Apple's iPhone OS is regaining much of the share it h...
Chrome OS: Internet failing at PC > PC failing at Internet
MOUNTAIN VIEW — Unless you were hiding under a rock for most of the day yesterday, you're aware by now that Google held a press event at which the search giant pulled back the curtain on ChromeOS, the OS that's really a br...
Google book settlement revised, criticized
Late Friday night, Google filed a revised version of its book settlement with the New York court that is overseeing the case. The new version limits the settlement to works published in a handful...
Swiss privacy commissioner miffed, taking Google to court
Loved by many, Google's Street View feature remains controversial among users and consumer groups who are concerned about privacy. The latest uproar comes from Switzerland's Federal Data Protectio...
