Friday, August 24, 2012

Facebook’s Challenge - Making Money in Mobile World - NYTimes.com

Facebook’s Challenge - Making Money in Mobile World - NYTimes.com

The company is trying to find ways to show lucrative ads to mobile users without cluttering up their hand-held screens and driving them away in frustration.

Thursday, August 23, 2012

Struggling to Recover From a Cyberattack - NYTimes.com

Struggling to Recover From a Cyberattack - NYTimes.com

When someone hacks into a company’s computer system and wreaks havoc, and a former employee is suspected, how does the business rebuild?

Twitter Followers For Sale - NYTimes.com

Twitter Followers For Sale - NYTimes.com

That friend who brags about having 1,000, even 100,000 Twitter followers may not have earned them, but simply bought them on the black market.

Electronic Scores Rank Consumers by Potential Value - NYTimes.com

Electronic Scores Rank Consumers by Potential Value - NYTimes.com:

Buying-power scores, compiled from huge amounts of data, measure your potential value as a customer. But you’ll probably never learn your total.

AMERICANS are obsessed with their scores. Credit scores, G.P.A.’s, SAT’s, blood pressure and cholesterol levels — you name it.

So here’s a new score to obsess about: the e-score, an online calculation that is assuming an increasingly important, and controversial, role in e-commerce.

These digital scores, known broadly as consumer valuation or buying-power scores, measure our potential value as customers. What’s your e-score? You’ll probably never know. That’s because they are largely invisible to the public. But they are highly valuable to companies that want — or in some cases, don’t want — to have you as their customer.

Internet Analysts Question India’s Efforts to Stem Panic - NYTimes.com

Internet Analysts Question India’s Efforts to Stem Panic - NYTimes.com

Internet companies say they are cooperating with efforts to stop posts and photos that are fueling ethnic tensions, but analysts say the government’s response was poorly planned.