Most TechCrunch readers have never heard of Tracking202. But affiliate advertisers love the service, which manages advertising campaigns on Facebook, MySpace and other platforms. In fact, Tracking202 was at the center of the Facebook click-fraud issue that we reported on earlier this year. Tracking202 users saw a certain number of clicks on ads via the Tracking202 interface, and far more on their Facebook admin pages. The company is self funded and has a number of customers who pay for the premium hosted version of the service. Today they've announced they're selling the business to Bloosky, an affiliate ad network. Full story...
Baidu, the leading search engine operator in China, this afternoon reported blow-out financial results for the fourth quarter of 2009.
With 400 million users, Facebook is seeing 2.5 billion photos uploaded every month. Scrapblog, a startup that allows you to make beautiful Flash-based online scrapbooks, is hoping to help Facebook users make pretty collages of their photos via a new Facebook app, Share the Love.
Apple recently made headlines here on TC for depriving an individual of 16 .com domain names that contained some of the company's brand names, including MacBook and iPod.
Let me say upfront: I have never been to TED, mostly because I have never been invited and I can’t imagine a world where I justify paying $6,000 for a conference.
"Busy people don’t want another social network, what they want is the convenience of aggregation.
Google officially unveiled Buzz, their major step into social statuses through Gmail today at an event held at 10 AM PT.
During the Q&A session today following the Google Buzz event, Google co-founder Sergey Brin revealed something both humorous and interesting.
Now that the Google event is over, the company has started turning on Buzz for Gmail users. Here are some quick screenshots of it in action.
See our live notes from today's Google Buzz event here.
Google has a problem. Despite having their hands in just about everything online, they've never been able to tackle what is a key part of the fabric of the web: social.
As location-based social networks gain serious traction, its inevitable that that these applications will become full-fledged platforms.