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We both recognized the song, despite neither of us owning the song or album, and then we both realized the impossible: that Apple was, in fact, a more influential force on popular culture than is already known and assumed.

Some advertising inside free apps for smartphones pose a threat to consumer privacy, according to a company that makes security software for mobile phones.

Facebook Exchange will tag users with cookies so advertisers can bid to send targeted ads back to their Facebook pages.

Why is Google, the worldwide market leader in web and mobile advertising, capturing only a small portion of the mobile web's revenue potential? The answer involves a lack of new thinking about new devices.

The Federal Trade Commission is looking to update 12-year-old framework for disclosure and privacy as marketers increasingly seed messages on mobile devices and social networking sites.

Why is managing every single phone call for you so attractive to Google? There’s a cynical guess, a reasonable line you can draw through their previous voice-based initiatives, and then there’s just a question mark the size of a server farm.

Abine's DoNotTrackPlus browser plug-in stops trackers in their tracks -- and it's free. My new Web mantra: Don't track me, bro.

What Google is doing with your information, and why it’s really doing so, are up for debate, and Android is at the core of that debate.

Google knows that it's been a very, very bad boy.

The wealthiest investor in the Arab world invests $300 million in Twitter, just months after the microblogging service received $800 million from Russian venture fund DST.

Earlier this year, Facebook let the world know it was undertaking a new Social Ads program which would allow advertisers to "pair their ads with their social actions". This whipped up privacy watchdogs into a lather, mostly since Facebook's previous attempts at this sort of thing included the doomed Beacon. That service had to be discontinued after a class-action lawsuit demanded its death over those same privacy concerns. Now, it looks like Facebook has taken the lessons learned from those mistakes and gotten it right.