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Google Inc. got a New Year's gift when the Federal Trade Commission dropped its probe into anti-competitive practices, using a new rationale.

A new report claims Google and Yahoo have quietly been funding piracy websites, although the companies may not have even realized it.

Google is likely to settle charges with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission Thursday.

Nielsen is partnering with Twitter to create a new media metric service known as the Nielsen Twitter TV Rating.

Influitive, the latest venture of Canadian entrepreneur Mark Organ, raised $7.3 million in new venture capital.

BlackBerry developer Research in Motion (NASDAQ:RIMM) lacks a new smartphone for holiday buying but its target markets are getting a multi-faceted marketing blitz.

The New York Times, the premier paper in the U.S., is facing falling ad revenues and subscriptions.

Beginnning Dec. 13, loud commercials will cease to exist. That's when the U.S. Federal Communications Commission will start enforcing in earnest the Commercial Advertisement Loudness Mitigation Act, or CALM Act, enacted in 2010.

In a brain-scan study, obese children's brains lit up in reward areas much more than healthy children's when seeing food-related logos.

An Australian men’s magazine, ZOO Weekly, is under fire for a post on its Facebook page asking men which half of a woman chopped in two they would choose.

Plyfe, the website that allows customers to get unusual rewards by playing games on Facebook, is now available via smartphones.

Shares of Facebook (Nasdaq: FB) surged as much as 9 percent after two major investment firms upgraded their ratings.

Facebook is working on a new feature that would allow users to post specifically commercial content or classified ads in an area separate from their individual wall.

CEO Mayer, while she wasn’t asked about a revision, said Yahoo “hasn’t been completely consistent ... in terms of our overall site design.”

Facebook (Nasdaq: FB) is expected to report its first profit as a public company and may hint at ways to keep growing.

Facebook Inc. (Nasdaq: FB) introduced “Collections” on Monday, another new feature to augment sponsored and branded content on its popular social network.

Google Inc's (Nasdaq: GOOG) YouTube unit will expand the channel experiment begun last year with around 60 new channels launching across Europe.

As Facebook hits the 1-billion-member mark, it hopes to turn each user into an advertiser, whether they realize it or not.

Google (Nasdaq: GOOG), set new a record high of $761.98 Tuesday on expectations that search and advertising gain will propel earnings higher.

Facebook is making a controversial move to optimize its advertising revenue by stepping further into comprehensive data monitoring.

Though 'Mad Men' broke new dramatic ground in season 5, and has clearly established itself as an Academy favorite, one thing it can't count on is the pathos vote.