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Google Maps gets the low-tech treatment in a new ad that imagines the app as the classic Labyrinth game. The online video spot, the first for Google from San Francisco ad agency Venables Bell & Partners, uses a wooden gyroscopic … Continue reading →

Commenters who use pseudonyms tend to offer better comments, a study Disqus suggests. The study, drawn from commenting platform Disqus’s 60 million-plus user base and nearly half a billion comments, finds that pseudonymous users — that is, those who use … Continue reading →

Jeff Ernst is a principal analyst at Forrester Research, serving CMOs and marketing leaders. One thing’s for sure: ICANN’s gTLD program is a game-changer. The introduction of new .brand and .category gTLDs represents the biggest change to the Internet naming … Continue reading →

After reports that some workers threatened to throw themselves off of a roof in protest of unfair treatment, the largest technology manufacturer in the world says it has solved the dispute. Foxconn Technology said in a statement that the dispute … Continue reading →

The bubble of American college football recruiting has few parallels in the sports universe. Millionaire coaches fervently woo teenage boys. Jobs, reputations and big-money contracts are on the line. Rabid fans pay for exclusive information from scouting services as the … Continue reading →

The second annual online Google Science Fair competition is getting even more global this year, allowing teenagers between 13 and 18 to submit entries in 13 languages for projects that could make a practical difference in the lives of a … Continue reading →

Using the data from NASA’s Kepler mission, astronomers have found three alien planets smaller than Earth, orbiting a star much smaller than our Sun. The planets, which are orbiting a red dwarf star known as KOI-961, are 0.78, 0.73 and … Continue reading →

Joe Fernandez is the founder and CEO of Klout. While his jaw was wired shut for nearly three months after surgery, Joe began to develop a deep fascination with the evolution of influence within the social web. The way individuals … Continue reading →

The Delhi High Court has ordered Facebook India and Google India to find a way to remove objectionable content or the sites will face a blackout. Justice Suresh Kait warned that if the Internet giants cannot monitor their content, India … Continue reading →

Microsoft’s Bing overtook Yahoo in market share in December for the first time, making Bing the number two search engine next to Google, according to comScore. The researcher found that Bing’s rise that month, to 15.1%, was due mostly to … Continue reading →