BRUSSELS — The top justice official in the European Union on Friday backed a request by E.U. governments that Google halt changes to its privacy policies while national data-protection authorities investigate the implications for citizens and users. In a statement e-mailed Friday to the International Herald Tribune, Viviane Reding, the E.U. justice commissioner, called on...Read More
Enlarge image Facebook Headquarters Jonathan Sprague/Redux The Facebook headquarters in Palo Alto. The Facebook headquarters in Palo Alto. Photographer: Jonathan Sprague/Redux Feb. 1 (Bloomberg) — Paul Kedrosky, author of the Infectious Greed Blog and a Bloomberg contributing editor, talks about Facebook Inc.’s filing to raise $5 billion in an initial public offering and the outlook...Read More
In the wake of Google’s recent changes to its search and privacy policy, some users and industry observers have criticized the move as treading on shaky ground with regards to privacy. Now Microsoft, one of Google’s chief rivals, has decided to pounce on this shift in public sentiment by releasing an advertising campaign specifically designed...Read More
Hackers are compromising WordPress 3.2.1 blogs in order to infect their visitors with the notorious TDSS rootkit, according to researchers from Web security firm Websense. It’s not clear how the websites are being compromised, but there are publicly known exploits for vulnerabilities that affect WordPress 3.2.1, which is an older version of the popular blog...Read More
Enterprise Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is not rocket science. In fact, it is not even as faceted as many other sectors of SEO in which practitioners have to perform many more nuanced SEO tasks (and often by themselves). So why is Enterprise SEO so underserved and why do so few large organizations embrace it properly?...Read More
Google is pushing back against complaints about its new privacy policy, saying users can still prevent the company from linking all the data it collects about them by turning off their search history, by skipping some of Google’s offerings or by using different Google accounts at different times. In a letter to lawmakers who have...Read More
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Google has teamed up with Facebook and Microsoft. It’s a very rare occurrence. But even the worst of tech enemies can agree that phishing is bad. On Monday, Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Yahoo!, and eleven others outfits announced they had formed a new alliance to combat phishing — a way of fooling email and web users...Read More
For those of us who have been in search engine optimization (SEO) for a number of years, we can recall the days when SEO efforts were measured by a ranking report, alone. That is to say, you might pick your top 50 keywords, dump these into a rank checker, run a report monthly, and determine...Read More
(CBS News)Â They’re known to attract the best and brightest minds. But this week, a federal judge ordered Google, Apple and five other high-tech companies to court over accusations they violated anti-trust laws by conspiring not to poach each other’s employees. CBS News correspondent Lee Cowan looks at this development. At issue is whether some...Read More
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