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…

Apple is asking developers to stop using a tracking feature in apps….

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…

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…

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 drawing the ire of a consumer lobby group called Which? (you'd think the two companies would get along given their shared penchant for…

That's what Ad Age says, citing anonymous sources….

That's because sponsored tweets are about to find their way into your tweet stream. Twitter has had things like sponsored trends and sponsored…

Okay, that's a bit of a paraphrase. Today Microsoft will announce NUads (short for natural user-interface ads) for the Xbox Kinect system. It lets…

This is a new program that Facebook is trying out where you get Facebook Credits in exchange for watching some ads. It's an expansion of an earlier…