We believe that openness is crucial for the future of the Internet. When something gets in the way of the free flow of information, we believe there should be transparency around what that block might be. So two years ago we launched the Transparency Report, showing when and what information is accessible on Google services around the world. We started off by sharing data about the government requests we receive to remove content from our services or for information about our users. Then we began ...

Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and YouTube best practices This white paper discusses: Three strategies for maximizing Twitter’s impact on SEO Tips for Facebook ads, events, groups and places Common principles between social and search marketing Download now Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

Actress Sharon Stone is being sued by her former nanny, a Filipino woman named Erlinda Elemen, for allegedly violating labor laws by reneging on paying overtime, then firing Elemen when she refused to give the money back. Elemen also says …

Facebook has announced that its new Camera app will be launching later today. The app is a social photo-sharing app similar to Instagram. Facebook Product Manager Dirk Stoop outlined briefly what functionality the app will have. When users first download …

Finally the federal government is not the last one to grab onto the newest trends in technology. Yesterday the White House unveiled its new plan to integrate cutting-edge technology into the way they reach citizens and overcome governing obstacles. The …

QuickLaunch is a one-time, free service for new advertisers looking to jump-start their online marketing with Microsoft Advertising adCenter. This program is available to new adCenter advertisers who want help from an online marketing expert to enhance...(read more)

“Dark Knight Rises” is at the very top of my must-see list this year. Never mind “The Avengers” and “The Amazing Spider-Man” — DKR is where it’s at. If you’ve been following any of the coverage surrounding director Christopher Nolan’s …

The desktop version of Twitter appears to be experiencing some outages for some users. There is currently now message about it on Twitter’s status blog. In fact, the last update was from May 20th. Follow @DavidAFC68 David Singer @DavidAFC68 Twitter …

We’re still a little under two months away from the third and final installment in Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight series, and the marketing push is kicking in a little stronger now. This week has already seen the release of the …

Katherine Heigl and her adopted daughter Adalaide Marie Hope Kelley stepped out for a little family lunch on Wednesday, much to the delight of the paparazzi. Also along for the outing was Heigel’s mother, who accompanied the “Knocked Up” for …

One of the more interesting rumors that has come about this week said Konami was working on a sequel to their excellent Castlevania: Lords of Shadow. Those rumors gained a bit more traction this week with the launch of a …

Forget about the Facebook IPO fumbling.  Consider Facebook’s lethargic race toward the front of the mobile lines.  The uneventful IPO may cause lost investor fervor; but some game-producing brands’ interests in Facebook have already been waning. Let’s peer at Facebook’s friendship with CrowdStar Inc., an app development team.  CrowdStar was developing games for the social [...]

As you might expect, not everyone in England is welcoming the Olympics with open arms. So much so, in fact, there’s an official protest movement which can be found at ProtestLondon2012.com. This “Official Protesters” collective is overseen by a group …

Whenever we here at WebProNews have speculated or reported on class action lawsuits filed against Facebook, the nature of those complaints has almost always had to do with the social networking giant’s dubious handling of user privacy. Given the remarkably …

Yahoo! has made big news today with the launch of the new Axis browser. Axis is available today as an iOS app, though an Android version is said to be in the works. In an interesting twist, Yahoo! has decided …

Google’s Knowledge Graph has claimed its first “victim,” if you will: The content box that showed “People and Pages On Google+” is gone. In its place? A variety of Knowledge Graph-related content that will show up differently depending on the search query. In making... Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

Earlier this week, we asked, Can search save Yahoo?” Little did we know, the company was just about to launch its most significant search offering in quite some time. That product would be Yahoo Axis, which is one part standalone …

A startup in Ohio called Gigabit Squared has raised roughly $200 million to fund a gigabit-per-second broadband initiative involving six universities across the U.S. Gigabit Squared has called upon the the University Community Next Generation Innovation Project (Gig.U), which consists …

A Wall Street Journal article on Google’s Penguin update highlighted some of the damage done to small businesses. Taking a quick look at these hurting websites offers some reasons why they have lost their search rankings and traffic from Google.

Over the next couple years, print giant Hewlett Packard will scale back their workforce by as much as 8%, or 27,000 people. It is all part of a massive initiative to restructure the way the company does business, and to …