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Sick of Kindle ads? Pay up
John Moe Oct 6, 2011
That new $79 Kindle that Amazon just announced is ad supported, as befits a screaming deal. But if you just don't want to see the dang ads any more...
A tax on soda
Raj Patel Nov 21, 2011
Millions of dollars will be spent on diseases related to obesity. So, how do we confront the public health problem?
Commercials are coming to Twitter
John Moe Sep 14, 2011
Well, commercial tweets anyway. Twitter is expanding its paid tweets program and will begin inserting commercial messages in your feed. So you'll...
Kellogg's goes after the ESPN crowd
Kai Ryssdal Sep 21, 2011
This final note today, from the Marketplace desk of cynical advertising, courtesy of Ad Age magazine.
All you dads out there who like to sneak y...
Your iPhone won't be as nosy
John Moe Aug 22, 2011
Apple is asking developers to stop using a tracking feature in apps....
No anonymity on social networks! Why the hell not?!
Steve Henn Jul 26, 2011
Over the weekend Google+ let loose a tempest in its shiny new teapot when the company expelled folks using fake names on the social network. By all...
Showing up unaware in Ads on Facebook
Steve Henn Jul 25, 2011
Last year Facebook came up with the idea of using your name and image to sell products to your Facebook friends on third party sites. Creepy, right...
Companies are not following their own Do-Not-Track policies
John Moe Jul 13, 2011
That's according to a recent study from Stanford's Center for Internet and Society. While Congress wrestles with online privacy legislation, the...
Yahoo! is reading your emails and still forcing me to type that stupid exclamation point at the end of its name*
John Moe Jul 11, 2011
Yahoo! is drawing the ire of a consumer lobby group called Which? (you'd think the two companies would get along given their shared penchant for...
Google to launch data exchange?
John Moe Jul 11, 2011
That's what Ad Age says, citing anonymous sources....
