Increasing numbers of teenagers are starting to dabble in hi-tech crime, say experts.
Computer security professionals say many net forums are populated by teenagers swapping credit card numbers, phishing kits and hacking tips. Read the full story »
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Spam will continue to be one of Facebook’s most important priorities as they move forward. Spam was ultimately one of the factors which drove many individuals from MySpace. I know that spam was one of the reasons I left the site. False friend requests plagued the site to the point where people’s requests page was getting flooded with false friend requests. Read the whole story »
eMarketer saw online advertising growing from $24.5 billion in 2008 to $28.5 billion in 2009. eMarketer benchmarks its online ad spending projections against quarterly reports by the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB), which uses PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) ... 
Facebook Connect, a product that ties a user’s Facebook account to other sites on the Internet, was first announced on May 9, more than five months ago. Digg was announced as a launch partner.
It’s a strategically important product, with competition from both Google and MySpace. So the big question is, how is it doing?
Mixing online and offline venues has been a growing trend for many marketers. The problem is blending offline with online effectively enough to justify a possibly larger ad spend than if only online or only offline were involved. A new report from MarketingSherpa sheds light on how on company used multi-channel ads to build brand and increase ROI.
Geo-targeting for Yahoo advertisers has been launched this week. The new tool will enable search advertising marketers to fine tune campaigns and create more relevant ad clicks by selecting specific target locations. 
A man has been jailed for life for stabbing his wife to death over a posting she made on the social networking site Facebook.
Google just released third quarter earnings. It reported revenues of $5.4 billion (about $4 billion after traffic acquisition costs are taken out, which is what Wall Street looks at) and profits of $1.3 billion. The $4 billion in revenues is right around what investors were expecting, and non-GAAP net income of $4.92 a share was well above the $4.79 consensus. Better control over costs contributed significantly to the upside surprise. 
Newspapers, already facing a grim economic forecast, are digesting another piece of bad news: the growth in online advertising they saw as their salvation has slowed to a crawl. 
In 2003, during the golden age of pop-up ads, the advertising research firm Dynamic Logic asked hundreds of people about over-content advertisements: ads that pop up from a Web page, lurk behind it or hover translucently over it like tiny digital storm clouds. Nearly a third of respondents said that such advertisements were “never appropriate.”
Shares of Apple Inc. rallied more than 9 percent Friday, as investors saw a newly attractive valuation in the battered stock and anticipated new laptop computers.
Apple, which also makes iPod music players and iPhone communications ... 
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Only eight days ago Google’s shares were trading at $411 and three months ago they were above $450. In that time, a lot of paper wealth has disappeared and along with it incentive for many ... 
Several weeks ago, word that a new manufacturing process for apple laptop cases was in the works, and there was widespread speculation about what the word “brick” would mean.Previously, speculation has centered on a new ... 
Facebook has been viciously attacking spam but the battle is proving to be a hard one. The most recent strategy by spammers is logging into other individuals accounts and sending instant messages to everybody on ... 
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