Inside China's phony 'click farm': Tiny office uses 10,000 handsets to send fake ratings and 'likes' for boosting clients' online popularity Footage has emerged of a giant 'click farm' in which thousands of phones are used to boost product ratings with phony 'likes'....
‘The question is not whether this can be done. It is whether Facebook should apply a moral filter to these decisions.’ By Antonio Garcia-Martinez For two years I was charged with turning Facebook data into money, by any legal means. If you browse the internet...
by Wolf Richter • Apr 26, 2017 The big shift to mobile advertising. It’s not all careening downhill, at least not for everyone – or at least not for the biggest two: Google and Facebook. More on our two heroes in a moment. Internet advertising revenues in the US...
By Adrienne Lafrance, The Atlantic Catching a glimpse of the puppet masters who play with the data trails we leave online is always disorienting. And yet there's something new-level creepy about a recent study that shows Facebook manipulated what users saw when they...
Most of us use social media every day. Research shows this online networking makes people feel better about themselves. But could that positive feeling have a negative impact on behavior, making you spend more or even eat more? As strange as it sounds, a new study...
Facebook’s public offering will be the largest and perhaps most highly anticipated Internet deal in history. But faced with great expectations, Facebook is staring down some potentially unnerving obstacles when it comes to key areas of monetization and growth: public...
As their Facebook "subscriber" lists have spiraled upward -- into the thousands and tens of thousands in recent weeks -- many journalists have looked on in awe and wonder. Executives at the social media behemoth say the "Subscribe" function, introduced in September,...
According to the Retrevo Gadgetology Report, an ongoing study of people to understand the changing role of parents in this new age of technology, today's parents have a whole new world of social tools to consider when it comes to raising their children. Leading the...
By Matt Anton Imagine the excitement when the internet was first created. Al Gore..err Tim Berners-Lee would be rolling over in his grave (he’s actually still alive) if he knew the additional game he opened up – online marketing. Ralph Waldo Emerson eloquently stated...
According to the MerchantCircle Merchant Confidence Index (MCI) survey, the total Q1 2011 MCI score is 5.1% higher than a year earlier. The largest contributor to its growth is respondents' expectations for sales revenue growth during the next three months. Merchant...