Hardly a shock but Groupon knows — and tells — a lot about you according to this MarketWatch story. It’s collecting tons of personal information and using it to market to its business partners and it’s definition of personal information is broad — and it uses multiple tools to collect it: Its definition of “personal [...]
On Wednesday, I raised the issue of why Google is able to command a disproportionately large price for its Cost-Per-Click for search advertising compared to Bing. At least one issue is whether Google’s acquisitions of companies in the overall online advertising ecosystem is giving it an unfair advantage in securing sales. The Department of Justice [...]
Year after year, decade after decade, we have seen an abandonment of the commitment to universal access to advanced technology, always leaving some communities behind. DSLReports.com highlights more examples in its piece Buffalo Group Complains of FiOS Redlining – Verizon Continues to Insist It’s Nothing Personal: We’ve often discussed how with the exception of several [...]
There’s been a lot of commentary and response to a Reuter’s opinion piece which calls on Microsoft to sell off its money-losing Bing search operation. Apparently, Bing is losing something on the order of $2.6 billion per year on an operation that brings in $2.5 billion in revenue– meaning Microsoft is losing something like 50 [...]
The Pew Internet & American Life Project finds in a report that 71% of adults online are using video-sharing sites — and increasing their use. 28% said in the survey they used one “yesterday”, a good indication of the proportion of high-frequency users. The most striking numbers are that black and hispanic Internet users are [...]
Under the rubric of “Dig Once”, House Dems have asked the Government Accountability Office to conduct a cost-benefit analysis on the benefits of requiring the installation of fiber optic cables for broadband during highway construction: Rep. Anna Eshoo (D-Calif.) introduced the Broadband Conduit Deployment Act in May, which would require the inclusion of broadband conduit [...]
