There are hundreds of thousands of apps out there vying for space on your mobile device. It’s nearly impossible to keep up with all of them. We’re hoping to make things a little easier for you, starting with the fitness category. To start, we’ve compiled a list of the top fitness apps available on Android …
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Facebook and Apple’s offices are separated by just 15 miles of highway, a 22-minute drive. But they might as well be worlds apart. Where Apple on Tuesday told investors that iPhone sales growth has stalled, Facebook Wednesday reported booming business selling the ads that run on those phones and other mobile devices. In fact, David Wehner, Facebook’s CFO, said the …
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Did T-Mobile’s no-holds barred advertising campaign cross the line of ethical business practices? Three labor unions think so and are using their consumer advocacy group to accuse the carrier of deceptive advertising as well as placing customers on services they never asked for, such as device insurance plans. On Wednesday the group, called Change to Win Retail Initiatives, filed a …
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A symbol of the dot-com bust is back. Is it time to panic? San Diego-based Wrapify recruits drivers and swathes their cars in vinyl advertisements, often for companies not much older than the 5-month-old startup. For the last few months, everyday commuters rolled along the streets of San Diego and San Francisco promoting young companies like security-camera firm Butterfleye, in-home …
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Enlarge ImageFirefox SVP Mark Mayo Stephen Shankland/CNET PARIS — With its Firefox Web browser, Mozilla plans to take a significant step in the fight against intrusive online advertising. Firefox for years has had a “private browsing” mode that keeps no record of which websites you’ve visited. When Firefox 42 arrives on November 3, that mode will add a tracking protection …
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Peace is one app that can block web-based ads in iOS 9. But is there a downside? Ad-blocking apps have soared to the top of Apple’s App Store charts following Wednesday’s debut of iOS 9. A $2.99 app called Peace (£2.29, AU$3.79), which promises to block “most ads and privacy-invading trackers on web pages” is the top paid app in …
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Facebook’s got a new tool in its ever-expanding efforts to make advertisers more relevant to its users. The Menlo Park, California-based social network is offering marketers access to a new testing technology to help them figure out which ads have the most success and why. The tools help an advertiser track the different ads it creates during a campaign and …
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Verizon has won the latest legal battle in a spat with broadband competitor Cablevision over disingenuous advertising. Verizon A federal judge has ordered Cablevision to stop running advertisements that accuse Verizon of lying about offering its Fios broadband customers the fastest in-home Wi-Fi service. On Friday, Judge Gary Brown threw out Cablevision’s lawsuit against Verizon, which was filed in January, …
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Video’s becoming a key draw for people on Facebook. Facebook Lights, action, Facebook! The world’s largest social network isn’t just a place where people chat with friends, share news stories and look at baby photos. It’s increasingly becoming a center for video — be it uploads of friends dunking buckets of ice on their heads or advertisements from McDonald’s reenacting …
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Bing will encrypt your searches by default starting this summer. screenshot by Lance Whitney/CNET Microsoft is changing the security encryption on its Bing search engine from an option to a requirement. In a blog posted Monday, the software giant announced that starting this summer, all web traffic coming from Bing will be encrypted by default. Such encryption has been available …
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