Retailers Seek Partners in Social Networks – ecommerce for Facebook
MINNEAPOLIS — “Showrooming” is no longer a bad word. Just a few years ago, the retail industry was deeply shaken by a growing trend in store browsing — shoppers wandering around the aisles with [...]
Court Can Proceed Privacy Case vs. Google
Court Can Proceed Privacy Case vs. Google SAN FRANCISCO — In a major legal setback for Google, a federal appeals court here said on Tuesday that a lawsuit accusing the Internet giant of illegal [...]
Privacy Groups Ask F.T.C. to Block Facebook Policy Changes
A coalition of six major consumer privacy groups has asked the Federal Trade Commission to block coming changes to Facebook Policy Changes that they say would make it easier for the social [...]
Twitter General Counsel Leaves as Company Prepares to Go Public
Alex MacGillivray, Twitter chief lawyer and the Internet industry’s most prominent champion of free speech rights, announced on Friday that he would step down from his post, as the company [...]
Malicious Software Poses as Video from a Facebook Friend
A piece of malicious software masquerading as a Facebook video is hijacking users’ Facebook accounts and Web browsers, according to independent Italian security researchers who have been [...]
Twitter prediction Algorithms can predict how tweets spread
The deluge of data we are subjected to daily can be a good thing sometimes. It gives us a wide-open window to look at people’s behaviour, say, through their use of social media. The obvious [...]