$175,000 per day, says Forbes in July, with an additional $50,000 that need to be spent on Google/ YouTube ads. (New ad formats may come up too, Silicon Alley Insider reports.)read more

All the way back in 2006, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California ruled that Target could be sued over their site not being accessible to the blind. Now over half way through 2008, Target has reached a settlement with regards to the class action lawsuit that ensued. read more

It looks like mobile search is about to be taken seriously. The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Verizon Wireless has tapped Google, and the two are close to reaching a deal that would see Google's mobile search come pre-installed on Verizon handsets. read more

Fox News Channel said today that it will add a number of enhancements to the network's Facebook profile on Tuesday.read more

The ins and outs of search can be fascinating; there are all sorts of little tricks and statistics to learn and track. That said, some perspective is also useful, and so a session at SES San Jose ran with the broad title of "Search Industry Update."read more

There is a myth in marketing today that many people blindly believe about sponsoring events ... that you always need exclusivity. The benefits of being an exclusive sponsor are easy to list, but there are some less considered negative aspects that could end up doing more harm to your brand than good. Let's look at the stories of a worldwide Olympic sponsor for whom the strategy of being an exclusive sponsor may not be such ...

This week, Facebook announced that it is changing the timing of application measurement from daily to monthly. This means that instead of daily activity reports, Facebook developers can now look at how their widgets perform over course of a month. read more

I was out of the country when Heelys hit the scene, so learning about them later, as a novelty shoe line that reminded me of the KangaRoos I wore when I was five, was more of a mental pop culture note than a personal world-changing one. Had I been ten when they became popular, they likely would have shared Reebok Pump status in my personal must-have shoe history. Then again, I also hadn't noticed the ...

I wasn’t going to give Twitter’s "we’re stopping SMS text messages in most countries" announcement much real estate today, then a single comment gave me pause for thought. First, the background:read more

The U.S. Department of Justice wants to seize the property and $53 million from the owner of a Florida- based Internet company that allegedly was involved in a massive Ponzi scheme.A Ponzi scheme is named after Charles Ponzi, who around 100 years ago tricked thousand of New Englanders into investing their money with him. Money from new investors is used to pay off earlier investors until the scheme collapses.read more

California Attorney General Jerry Brown is suing an online travel business for operating a "gigantic pyramid scheme" that recruited thousands of members with misleading claims that they could earn huge sums of money through its online travel agencies.read more

Whatever critics may say about AOL as a whole, Platform-A appears to be on top of its game. The advertising unit has taken another step into the mobile market with the launch of a third-party advertising solution.read more

How major Internet players follow their users and utilize their activity became the focus of a letter of inquiry sent by the House Committee on Energy and Commerce to a number of companies.read more

U.S. federal officials have disclosed that agents at the U.S. border may seize a traveler's laptop or other electronic devices with no limits on how long they can hold them and without any suspicion of wrongdoing.The Department of Homeland Security recently disclosed the new policies that allow agents to search a laptop's contents and share the information with other agencies and private organizations for language translation, data decryption or other reasons.read more

Yesterday's Twitter glitch (Twitch?) causing users' follower/followee lists to be trimmed for them appears to be resolved. Twitter founder Biz Stone attributed the event to an error during a database upgrade. A post yesterday is time-stamped 12:01 Pacific, suggesting the error was fixed within about 12 hours. It would take longer, until today probably, to return actual numbers to normal on user accounts. read more

An email-related Yahoo product might be expected to affect no more than Yahoo Mail, Ymail, and RocketMail. Somebody's been feeling energetic, though, as Yahoo Zimbra Desktop Beta will allow users to access even Gmail and AOL Mail while they're offline.read more

Njection.com is a Web site that provides drivers information on the location of red light cameras and speed traps by allowing users to upload locations of such places which are then displayed on a mapDrivers in the U.S. can download information directly to their in- car GPS device for $40 a year and have access to continually updated files pointing out the locations of speed traps and red light cameras. Access to information about speed ...

A first glance at a comparison of social networks today - Facebook and LinkedIn - appeared to show Facebook losing its young college audience. read more

Walking directions first became visible to some Google Maps users about two weeks ago, and whatever tests the company conducted apparently went well. Walking directions are now available to everyone, with Google answering several of the questions that came up.read more

MySpace may be making a move in the direction of universal logins, according to a new report. The problem - aside from traditional security concerns - is that the social network sounds more eager to issue OpenID identities than accept ones established elsewhere.read more