Internet Law, or Cyberlaw as it is sometimes called, refers to the legal issues related to the use of the Internet. It is less a distinct field of law than a conglomeration of intellectual property law, contract law, privacy laws, and many other fields, and how they pertain to the use of the Interne...
Twitter plans to let people fire off links or pictures without eating into the 140-character limit set for posts at the one-to-many messaging service, Bloomberg has reported. The change could take place by the end of this month, according to a Blomberg report that yesterday cited someone familiar...
The U.S. House of Representatives' information technology team has blocked lawmakers from accessing software applications hosted on a Google cloud service to prevent possible hacking campaigns, two congressional sources said on Wednesday. The move came after Yahoo Mail was also blacklisted by H...
Google is installing apps right into mobile search results, which could force developers to rethink marketing strategies to get to the top of the page. The app streams will appear as blue links like the rest of the results, but they will open to apps, not mobile websites, taking people directly to ...
China's top Internet search company has been ordered to change the way it displays results after an investigation into the death of a student who relied on its services to look for cancer treatments.China's cyberspace regulator ruled Monday that Baidu's search results are not clearly labeled, lack o...
The company behind two of the most highly rated smartphones (big and small), the leading smart thermostat, a super high-end laptop, a 2-in-1 tablet, a Wi-Fi camera, streaming audio and video players, a sexy router and a smart smoke detector ... is Google?   It's strange but true. Google (GOOG...
Alec Green is vice president of marketing for The Search Agency, an online marketing agency specializing in SEM, SEO, Social Media, Display, CPO, & Landing Page Optimization. Search engines adapt to compete in the ever-changing search marketplace. But because they derive revenue from ads, searc...
Google has always been an artificial intelligence (AI) company. So Google’s announcement that its RankBrain AI is being used to help understand natural language queries and rank results shouldn’t surprise anyone. Let’s start with the fact that co-founder Larry Page was talking about it in 200...
Yahoo CEO Search Heats Up:   All Things D says Yahoo has narrowed down its CEO search to four or five big names, including Google business lead Nikesh Arora, former Microsoft executives Brian McAndrews and Hulu CEO Jason Kilar. While Kilar would be absolutely perfect (he’s smart, likeable,...
  Getty Images on Wednesday filed a competition law complaint against Google with the European Commission. The company last year filed an "interested third party" submission in support of the EC's investigation into Google's anticompetitive business practices.   Getty's complaint, in e...

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