Bing has released a list of the top searches in 2011. Bing's recap, while far more comprehensive than the 2010 edition, mainly focuses on entertainment and celebrities. In that sense, Bing's top searches lists do serve as a so.

This story originally appeared on ClickZ Zachary Rodgers wrote Adobe to Buy Efficient Frontier In another major marketing acquisition for Adobe, the company has agreed to purchase search centric agency Efficient Frontier. The deal brings .

This story originally appeared on ClickZ: Kate Kaye wrote FTC Settles With Facebook, Renewing Calls for Privacy Law Facebook shared user IDs with advertisers, allowing them to tie Facebook data to information gleaned about users on other .

If you finally just started getting used to the Google+ Bar - that black bar of Google links you see while traversing Google properties - it's going away soon. In an effort to reclaim more screen real estate, Google is trading in the b.

How appropriate that in a month that a Google Doodle featured Halley's Comet that Google would follow up by celebrating Mark Twain's 176th birthday with a panoramic Doodle depicting one of the most famous characters he created, Tom Sawyer. .

A few weeks ago at ad:tech New York, Matthew Lesko stopped by my company's booth and freaked me out by doing this! And as that finger haunted me for the following couple of nights, it got me thinking about the success he's had wit.

A partnership between WordPress and Federated Media Publishing gives bloggers another monetization option, with an opt-in ad program available exclusively to WordPress.com bloggers, designed to rival Google's AdSense. In a blog post, WordP.

If you've received an email offering you access to the Google Wallet for Business beta recently, beware: it's a phishing attempt to get your credit card information. Like most of these scams, the email looks like official; in this case, an email.

Social network giant Facebook is facing more legal action from the European Commission for "eavesdropping" on its users to gather information about their political opinions, sexuality, religious beliefs, and where they are in the world. The E.

Google's buyout of Motorola Mobility is already under scrutiny from the U.S. Department of Justice, but the deal will also require clearance in Europe. The European Commission evaluation is scheduled to determine a ruling by January 10. The Euro.

You may have received a pile of Groupon offers yesterday, but one sale the company did not want you to see was their stock 50 percent off their first day highs and well below the initial IPO price of $20. Marketers have had mixed results with Gr.

Yandex has officially become the default search engine on Windows Phone-based handsets in Russia. Russia's largest search engine has entered a partnership with both Microsoft and many major phone manufacturers including Nokia, Samsun and HTC. Ya.

Official Google representatives have given their feedback on how Google has evolved, what its priorities are, and where the future will take us. The company has also included a six-minute video and a visual timeline. The Google Search of Yore .

The tech and investment worlds are in a frenzy, now that the Wall Street Journal has reported Facebook may be inching ever closer to a $10 billion initial public offering )IPO(, possibly as soon as Q2 2012. It could be the most valuable IPO e.

The Silver Lake consortium is one of a number of parties bidding for a minority stake in Yahoo, but their offer has a number of factors that makes them a major contender. The consortium includes Microsoft - that already is working with Yahoo - and.

The latest comScore Video Metrix data has just been announced and Facebook has jumped from the No. 5 online video content property in September 2011 to the No. 2 property in October. And Schmooru, Warner Bros )The Ellen Show(, and BigFrame have el.

Google AdWords gave us PPC data junkies a great new way to segment data in July. Dubbed "Top vs. side," this segment broke out performance data for ads appearing in the top spot, above the SERPs, vs. ads appearing on the right side of .

Do you remember when you stopped writing a Christmas list? As kids, we'd start crafting our Christmas lists at some point in August. So by the time mall Santas took their red-velvet, food-court thrones we were already on a third draft. W.

The fake mortgage programs that brought Google under recent scrutiny don't seem to be run by Google-exclusive con artists. Mortgage scams that claim to provide assistance from the U.S. government have also been located in Microsoft .

Black Friday online shopping spend in the U.S. market jumped 26 percent this year over last, to $816 million, says comScore. Retailers fared better on Thanksgiving this year, as well, with $479 million spent online, up 18 percent over the holiday .