online marketing
Bits Blog: A Start-Up Offers Help With Advertising on Facebook
Trada, which crowdsources search engine ads, now does the same for social networking ads, which it says will change the future of search.
Bits Blog: A Clue on H.P.’s Plan to Best I.B.M.
Meg Whitman may be angling for an opposite play to I.B.M.’s — selling hardware with so many software extras that it comes with a premium price.
Bits Blog: The Big Business of ‘Big Data’
We are going to collect more information about ourselves and the world than we knew existed. Expect a bust, along with a benefit.
Bits Blog: Google Announces New Data Visualization Tools for Analytics
Google on Wednesday announced a new data visualization tool for Google Analytics that can show the path people take through a Web site and the ads they will see.
Bits Blog: Amazon’s Kindle Fire Browser Raises Privacy Questions
A congressman asks Amazon some questions about the Kindle Fire and privacy.
Bits Blog: Stanford Researcher Finds Lots of Leaky Web Sites
A Stanford University student finds that your online travel — your clickstream, as it’s poetically known — is not always anonymous. It can often be traced right back to rather precise parts of you.
Bits Blog: Facebook Gets a Past
What used to be your Facebook personal profile page will soon be known as Timeline. It will allow you to present a picture of yourself as you were once and are now.
Bits Blog: Google Wallet Makes its Debut
Google offered to the public the long-awaited Google Wallet, which works only with one Sprint phone, a Citibank account and a MasterCard.
Bits Blog: Manilla Offers Customers Mobile App and Deal Reminders
Manilla, a personal account management service, announced the release of a mobile app that will allow customers to manage bills and daily deals by smartphone.
Bits Blog: Gilt Introduces Vacation Home Rentals
Jetsetter, Gilt’s travel site, introduces a vacation home rental service that competes with Airbnb and HomeAway.
Bits Blog: Illegal Downloads of Fox Shows on the Rise
Last week Fox began a new policy that will delay online viewing of the network’s television shows for eight days after they air. Now piracy of the company’s programs are on the rise.
Bits: Justice Department to Review Google’s Admeld Deal
The Justice Department will review Google’s $400 million acquisition of Admeld, which was expected to attract regulatory scrutiny.
