When Google made its dramatic “new approach to China” announcement in January, it sounded as if the company might leave the country within the month.
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Twitter is expected to launch an ad platform this month (some have speculated this will happen at SXSW). While this hasn’t been confirmed, the industry has been waiting for quite some time to Twitter to launch such a monetization model. That’s not to say the industry has been sitting on its hands as it’s waited. Third-parties have taken it upon themselves to offer services for Twitter, that Twitter itself doesn’t offer. That includes apps of course , but it also includes Twitter ads. 140 Proof is one such company, and it calls itself the “first scalable ad solution built exclusively for Twitter.” “The Proof network aggregates the Twitter client and application ecosystem (roughly 100+ million Twitters users) and then segments users into a dynamic audience that advertisers can buy the same way they buy keyword advertising,” a representative for the company tells WebProNews. “Advertisers are excited to final have a mechanism for extended their conversations on the Twitter social network and the Twitter ecosystem is eager to have a targeted, non-obtrusive advertising solution that allows them to monetize their applications while still respecting
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The Better Business Bureau is warning people about the practices and claims of some online payday lenders. “Desperate times are leading people to the Internet to apply for payday loans and many are falling deeper into debt after getting tangled up with a lender who has zero regard for the law,” said Stephen A. Cox, President and CEO of the Council of Better Business Bureaus. “Unlike a payday loan that you might get from a local business, online payday loans require your bank account number and, as a result, the borrower is at the mercy of the lender as more money than they counted on is withdrawn from his or her account.” Hundreds of people have complained to the BBB after signing up for a payday loan on sites like OnceClickCash, 500Fastcash and rbloans. Consumers complaints said they agreed to what they thought was a one-time payday loan, usually a few hundred dollars to be paid off in two weeks. They provided their bank account information to the lender and the money was then deposited. The arrangement leads to a debt spiral.
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As we’ve written about a lot lately, local search is continuing to evolve, and that evolution is not just coming from the biggest names in search. We recently had a discussion with RateItAll President Lawrence Coburn about user location-sharing as
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A little more than a month ago, Google introduced click-to-call phone numbers in local ads on smartphones.
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