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• YouTube rolls out paid subscription channels

  By Zach Miners | 09 May, 2013 23:13

  Not everything on YouTube is free any more. The video-sharing website will now charge users a monthly fee to view certain content offered through subscription channels, the Google-owned site announced Thursday.

• Consumer service lawsuit looms for Google in Germany

  By Loek Essers | 08 May, 2013 13:57

  A lawsuit against Google's customer service practices in Germany is looming after the company declined to sign a document promising German consumer organizations to start answering customer emails individually.

• Mozilla Spars With Ad Group Over Do-Not-Track

  By Kenneth Corbin | 25 April, 2013 15:12

  The head of the advertising coalition at the forefront of the policy debate over new privacy protections for consumers blasted browser makers Microsoft and Mozilla at a Senate hearing Wednesday for derailing cross-industry work developing a feature allowing Internet users to opt out of behavioral tracking.

• EU publishes Google antitrust remedy proposals

  By Jennifer Baker | 25 April, 2013 13:16

  Google's rivals have been given one month to assess the search giant's proposed remedies, the European Commission announced Thursday.

• Senator rips self-regulatory do-not-track efforts

  By Grant Gross | 24 April, 2013 21:03

  The U.S. online advertising industry has not lived up to a promise to stop the online tracking of Internet users who ask advertisers to do so, a senior U.S. senator said Wednesday.

• Survey: Internet users like targeted ads, free content

  By Grant Gross | 19 April, 2013 19:27

  Internet users overwhelmingly enjoy free Web content supported by advertising, and they'd rather see advertisements targeted toward their interests than random ads, according to a survey released this week by the Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA).

• Google gets consumer service ultimatum from German consumer groups

  By Loek Essers | 18 April, 2013 12:52

  Google received an ultimatum Thursday from German consumer organizations that want it to start answering questions from its users via email.

• Facebook, Pandora and Twitter seize mobile ad display market

  By Jeremy Kirk | 10 April, 2013 04:09

  An IDC study has found sweeping changes in how mobile display advertisements are sold, with Facebook, Pandora and Twitter successfully wresting away control from advertising networks over the last year.

• Mobile phone apps view private data more than necessary, says French study

  By Peter Sayer | 09 April, 2013 22:54

  Mobile phone apps are accessing users' private data and transmitting it to remote servers far more than appears strictly necessary, while users have inadequate tools to monitor or control such access, according to a new study by two French government agencies.

• Click fraud botnet defrauds advertisers up to $6 million

  By Jeremy Kirk | 20 March, 2013 00:55

  An advertising analytics company said it has discovered a botnet that generates upwards of US$6 million per month by generating bogus clicks on display advertisements.

• Twitter gives small businesses more advertising options

  By Zach Miners | 19 March, 2013 00:17

  Twitter is beefing up its self-service ad platform to give smaller businesses more targeting and analytics tools to reach potential customers on the site.

• Google removes ad-blocking software from Play store

  By Jeremy Kirk | 14 March, 2013 05:53

  Google has removed some programs from its Play store that block web advertisements, contending the applications violate its rules by interfering with other services.

• SXSW 2013: No new Twitter, but marketing and hardware stand out

  By Zach Miners | 12 March, 2013 19:20

  South by Southwest Interactive is best known as the technology festival that put such social networking mainstays as Twitter and Foursquare on the map. But if there was a "next big thing" at this year's event, finding it would be pretty hard.

• Tech groups question new do-not-track bill

  By Grant Gross | 01 March, 2013 19:14

  New legislation in the U.S. Senate that would allow Internet users to tell companies to stop tracking them is unnecessary and could slow e-commerce growth, some tech groups said.

• Facebook confirms buying Microsoft's Atlas to boost ad sales

  By Zach Miners | 28 February, 2013 23:59

  Facebook is buying Microsoft's Atlas Advertiser Suite, an ad analysis platform, in a move that should increase its advertising revenue and give marketers better information about their campaigns across the social network, on both desktop and mobile.