Google dominates mobile ads, Facebook rises—survey

Google captured more than half of the $8.8 billion spent on mobile Internet advertising worldwide last year and is expected to boost its share in 2013, a market watcher said Thursday.

Google captured more than half of the $8.8 billion spent on mobile Internet advertising worldwide last year and is expected to boost its share in 2013, a market watcher said Thursday.

A conservation group claims that Google has something in common with illicit ivory traders in China and Thailand: It says the Internet search giant is helping fuel a dramatic surge in ivory demand in Asia that is killing African elephants at record levels.

Yengo, an international online-service for traffic generation and business promotion, is set to expand to Vietnam, Indonesia, Korea, Singapore and China, according to its emailed statement.

Globe president and CEO Ernest Cu is bullish on the prospects of mobile devices in the Philippines, saying that the technology is set to change the landscape of traditional advertising in the country.

Internet giant Google has warned it would exclude French media sites from its search results if France adopts a law forcing search engines to pay for content, in the latest confrontation with European governments.

Coca-Cola and Samsung have pulled their advertising from a popular Vietnamese website notorious for providing unlicensed downloads of Western and local songs, in a rare victory against online piracy in a country where it has grown unchecked.

Twitter on Thursday began letting advertisers target users with “promoted tweets” based on interests expressed at the globally popular one-to-many texting service.

Google has banned gun sales from its new shopping platform, a move drawing fire from hunters and weapons enthusiasts but praised by gun control activists.

Google confirmed Friday that its online search and advertising services are under scrutiny by regulators in Argentina and South Korea.

Facebook on Tuesday fired back at Yahoo! with a countersuit charging that the floundering Internet pioneer is violating the social network’s patents — and not the other way around.
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New doors are being opened to advertisers in the Asia-Pacific, owing to the continuous growth of mobile phone users in the region, an executive of a mobile advertising company said.
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