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Facebook’s Ad Business Is a $3 Billion Mystery

So now we know that Facebook's ad business is huge, and growing like a weed. But how does it actually work?

The newsonomics of Google’s retail push

It looked like just more head-butting among the mammoths of our time: Google will match up with Amazon, said the Wall Street Journal last week: “The Web-search giant is in talks with major retailers and shippers about creating a service that would let consumers shop for goods online and receive their orders within a day......

Hollywood Meets Silicon Valley, Up Close and Personal: YouTube CEO Salar Kamangar Comes to D: Dive Into Media

North meets South, tech meets content, and the rest of the world gets a rare opportunity to meet one of Google's most important -- and least known -- players.

Twitter Pumps Up Its Ads Today With "Promoted Tweets to Followers"

Twitter's slow-moving ad business takes another step forward today: Advertisers will get a better shot at delivering their messages directly into users' timelines.

Twitter Tells Advertisers to Dig Deeper: "Promoted Trends" Get a Price Hike

Twitter's popular ad units could see prices go up by 25 percent or more in the next few months. Also: Here's how "Promoted Accounts" really work, and how much a new follower will cost you.

The Newsonomics of Google Grouponomics

Figure that $5 billion price is worth it, if it ignites the local market sales quicker, and acts as the gateway hoped. Therein we can see the newsonomics of Google Grouponomics.How fast can Google double its, maybe, 1.5 million merchants? Let's say the next 1.5 million merchants only spend 25% annually of what the first...

Google’s Victory Dance: Check Out Our Go-Go Numbers!

After showing off financial numbers that blew away Wall Street's earnings estimates, what could Google do for an encore? Trot out even more numbers, via a tantalizing but not-that-revealing striptease.

Exclusive: Want Twitter to Help You Find More Followers? Pay Up For a "Promoted Account."

Twitter is still working to get its first two ad products up and running. But it's going to launch a third, anyway: Tomorrow the company will show off "Promoted Accounts" at an ad industry conference in New York.

Goodbye (Crummy) CAPTCHAs. Hello Ad Dollars?

Solve Media can't make captchas go away, but it says it can make them less unpleasant--by turning them into ads.

Twitter’s Slow-Motion Business Plan

Don't look now, but the famously revenue-free start-up is busy experimenting with different ways to, you know, generate revenue. Imagine if one of them works.

Big Music Wins One: LimeWire Loses Court Fight

A big victory for Big Music: A federal court has ruled in favor of the music labels in their fight against LimeWire, one of the most prominent file-sharing services on the Web.

The Secret Life of Chatroulette’s Hacker Founder

Can't read enough about Andrey Ternovskiy, the kid who built Chatroulette? You're in luck: This week's New Yorker has an excellent profile of the Russian teenager.