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Facebook(NASDAQ: FB) is removing a universal privacy option that allowed users to prevent others from searching for them by name. If you had not used the option, it’s already gone (as of last December). If you did employ the option, you will see an announcement at the top of your Facebook...

Spending for the first half of 2013 on mobile advertising totaled $3 billion. It was $1.2 billion a year ago, according to the Interactive Advertising Bureau. This represents growth of 145 percent and was a significant contributor to the historic $20.1 billion brought in by Internet advertisers...

Groupon (NASDAQ: GRPN) Chairman Ted Leonsis projected Twitter's success as they move forward towards their initial public offering, and discussed his former company AOL's (NYSE: AOL) influence over the revolutionary communication technology Friday morning on CNBC's Squawk Box. Leonsis also talked...

When it comes to monetization, Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) might have a trick up its sleeve. And that trick just might be apps. Seeking Alpha’s Adrian McCarroll suggested it and others have seconded the notion. Microsoft has a habit of showing up late to the party. Such was the case with...

The tipping point has arrived. According to Bloomberg, researcher IDC released a report stating that tablet shipments will surpass those of personal computers in the fourth quarter for the first time. Opting for ease and portability, consumers now favor mobile devices over laptops and...

Rumors abound that the release of LG’s next offering, the Nexus 5, is coming soon. To add to the fire, according to The Verge, Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) may have inadvertently released a sneak peak of the device in a promotional video for Android 4.4 (KitKat) Wednesday. Google removed the video...

“Reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.” American humorist Mark Twain supposedly said this (or something close to it) after reading newspaper articles about his pending demise. There are those who feel the same way about personal computers. Forbes recently reported that, despite...

Do you live in New York, Los Angeles or Dallas? Do you subscribe to Time Warner Cable (NYSE: TWC) and enjoy watching programming on CBS (NYSE: CBS)? Don’t look now - well actually, you can’t. And, maybe not for several weeks. Reuters reported Sunday that thanks to the fact that the two...

The premiere of the Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) Chromecast streaming device has excited the masses to the point the device is already sold out and on backorder. Related: Google's Sold-Out Chromecast Soars to $100 on eBay It has also raised concerns, on the part of television executives and others...

In another all-too-common television programming contract dispute – this time between CBS (NYSE: CBS) and Time Warner Cable(NYSE: TWC) – a new player has emerged, according to The New York Times. It’s Aereo, the upstart startup that figured out a way to bypass the retransmission fees companies...