Fahad HDec 5, 20131 min readFTC: Native Ads “May Be Illegal” In Some Casesquoted by Reuters saying, “By presenting ads that resemble editorial content, an advertiser risks implying, deceptively, that the...
Fahad HDec 4, 20133 min readThe Future Of Internet Sales Tax: What’s Next After The Supreme Court’s Denial Of AmazonThe appeals stem from New York’s passing of what has become known as the “Amazon Tax,” which expands the definition of nexus to include...
Fahad HDec 2, 20131 min readAdvertorial Native Ads To Receive Closer FTC ScrutinyNative Ads don’t automatically violate US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) rules against “deceptive advertising” provided they’re...
Fahad HNov 15, 20133 min readNew TCPA Guidelines: What Do They Mean For Mobile Marketing?By now, you have likely noticed that everyone is talking (and texting) about the amendments to the Telephone Consumer Protection Act...
Fahad HOct 2, 20132 min readGoogle Confronts Unwelcome “Wiretapping” Class Actionsreported in the New York Times, Google is confronting two “wiretapping” class actions that have been allowed to move forward in the...
Fahad HOct 1, 20133 min readOperation Greener Grass: Why Aren’t SEOs Up In Arms?Once again, SEO is in the news. Once again, the media (along with an elected official or two — shocker!) clearly doesn’t understand how...
Fahad HSep 30, 20132 min readFrance To Fine Google On Privacy, Low UK Taxes Draw IreThe Wall Street Journal is reporting that France’s privacy regulator, the Commission Nationale de l’Informatique et des Libertés (CNIL),...
Fahad HSep 27, 20132 min readSurvey: 71% Of Companies Concerned Over Social Media Risks, But Only 36% Provide Employee Trainingsurvey examining corporate social media risks and rewards from advisory firm Grant Thornton found that 71 percent of the executives...
Fahad HSep 20, 20131 min readMicrosoft’s Ballmer: Google Is A “Monopoly”At a recent meeting of financial analysts Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer characterized Google as a search “monopoly,” implying the company...
Fahad HSep 18, 20131 min readAppeals Court Rules Facebook “Like” Protected By Constitutionreported by the Wall Street Journal. The underlying facts of the case involved sheriff’s deputies who were fired for endorsing (Liking)...
Fahad HSep 9, 20131 min readEdmunds.com Settles With Texas Marketing Firm Over Fake ReviewsThat’s part of a recently announced settlement between Humankind Design and Edmunds.com, which also calls for Humankind to pay a portion...
Fahad HJul 26, 20131 min readPinterest Announces Support For Do-Not-Trackpost about greater, coming personalization on Pinterest is a statement that says if consumers don’t want the tracking they can opt-out....
Fahad HJul 24, 20132 min readEdmunds.com Sues Texas Marketing Firm For Allegedly Posting Fake Car Dealer ReviewsThe company has issued a news release explaining its lawsuit against Humankind Design, a marketing company based in Friendswood, Texas,...
Fahad HJul 18, 20132 min readSouth Korea Drops Antitrust Investigation Against GoogleIn early 2011, South Korean search and portal providers NHN Corp. and Daum Communications filed antitrust complaints with the South...
Fahad HJul 17, 20133 min readEurope Calls For More Concessions From Google, Survey Says “Rival Links” Not EnoughAccording to the NY Times, Almunia said that Google needs to “improve” its current proposal: “I concluded that the proposals that Google...
Fahad HJul 15, 20132 min readMajor Ad Networks Sign Anti-Piracy Best Practices Aimed To Starve Piracy Sites Of Ad RevenuesPressure has been mounting on Google, in particular, and the online ad network industry in general to combat online counterfeiting and...
Fahad HJul 3, 20131 min readYouTube Becomes Latest Google Target By State Attorneys GeneralTheHill.com is reporting that the two state AGs sent a letter to Google lawyer Kent Walker asking how much the company has earned from...
Fahad HJun 27, 20132 min readYelp Sues To Take Down Paid Review MillThe Daily Dot, Yelp has sued to terminate and collect damages from a site called BuyOnlineReviews.net. The site leads with Yelp but it...
Fahad HJun 25, 20132 min readGoogle Shows Nearly 100 Million Unsafe Browsing Warnings Per WeekThe Google Safe Browsing system is designed to warn people from Google’s search results and when using popular browsers if they are about...
Fahad HJun 21, 20132 min readGoogle Has 35 Days To Delete UK “SpyView” Data Or Face “Criminal Action”Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has served notice that Google must destroy personal information obtained from its Street View...
