A lawsuit filed on Tuesday in the US Federal court accuses Google of deceiving its customers into paying for ads they didn't expressly request.
Microsoft hopes to back up its refrain that it has a plan to catch Google by showing off some improvements to its Live Search product at a company-sponsored advertising conference later this month.
US privacy advocates are questioning Facebook's latest revenue spinner, Social Ads, for possibly breaching 19th century laws designed to protect celebrities from being exploited in print media.
Microsoft is set to challenge Google in the online ad world with the sealing of its US$6 billion takeover of Internet advertising firm aQuantive.
Yahoo will consider refunding money to thousands of advertisers dating back to January 2004 and pay $US4.95 million (AU$6.8 million) in lawyers' fees to settle a class-action lawsuit alleging the Internet powerhouse has been profiting from bogus sales referrals generated through a sham known as "click fraud".
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In October, Yahoo ran an Open Hack Day event in Bangalore, hosted by one of the company's co-founders, David Filo. Two hundred local developers were invited to a 24-hour code-a-thon to combine their own ideas with mashed-up services from Yahoo's own library of APIs.
In an exclusive interview, Microsoft's chairman says the decision to remove WinFS means "the glass is three-quarters full."
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