• Reading List: Tech’s Mormon Bartender Problem

    The Web is becoming more and more social, but the engineers behind this movement aren’t exactly the most social bunch. Plus: Hulu is bigger than Fox, and the FTC has reached a settlement with Facebook. This and more on today’s Reading List.


  • Inside the Economist Group’s Ad Network Play

    The Economist Group isn’t exactly a name you’d expect playing the vertical ad network game, but one of its business units, Ideas People Media, manages a vertical network featuring a collection of sites its high-minded readers also visit.


  • Publishers Wary of Facebook Editions

    Facebook declared a new era a few months ago during its f8 conference, an era in which users would turn to social media to “Read, Watch, and Listen.” So far, most big publishers are waiting and seeing, fearful of Facebook becoming too powerful, or worse — just like AOL.


  • Reading List: Facebook Faces the FTC

    Facebook is looking at 20 years of privacy audits from the FTC. Plus: Zynga is no longer Silicon Valley’s darling and Apple faces decisions about what to do with iAds. This and more in today’s Reading List.


  • Reading List: Can Facebook Ever Beat Google at Ads?

    Facebook is rivaling Google in consumer attention, but its ad platform remains nowhere near Google’s. Can social media ever deliver for advertisers like search? Plus: social media gurus cash in, Google+ gets brand pages and Groupon’s shaky investor outlook.