Apple has won a major patent victory over HTC and Android as the U.S. FTC affirmed the July patent ruling in Apple's favor. Meanwhile, UK telecommunications company BT has opened another patent case that targets a wide array of Google services and.

Acquisio have acquired ClickEquations for an undisclosed sum from Channel Intelligence and struck a strategic alliance which will see Channel Intelligence and Acquisio partnering to make an impact in the ecommerce market for large retailers. Mar.

Despite strong growth in display advertising for the first nine months of 2011, a tumbling market for paid search dragged overall Internet ad spending in the U.S. down 2.9 percent in the third quarter, at least according to a new report from WPP's.

Everybody's been talking about search in 2011, but what were the events that helped to shape the search landscape of the year? We ran a poll on SEOptimise in order to find out. While the biggest search impact of 2011 might not come as much .

Last week Google announced that Googlebot-Mobile now crawls with a smartphone user-agent in addition to the previous feature phone users-agents. The information crawled will be used in mobile search to improve user experience. The new crawler will.

Facebook is preparing to roll out Sponsored Stories in the news feed. The ads will roll out gradually beginning in January, allowing brands to reach users whose friends have interacted with their pages - for instance with a like, a comment, or ano.

Two US senators have asked the Federal Trade Commission )FTC( to launch a formal anti-trust investigation into Google. Senators Herb Kohl and Mike Lee have written to the FTC )PDF( about their fears that Google could be abusing its dominant posi.

The AMEE global environmental intelligence platform is expanding into user-facing apps, including a new hybrid web engine that helps you track down information and get concrete calculations on your carbon footprint. The AskAMEE Engine AskAMEE .

Can you create a YouTube video to influence public opinion without a video camera? Well, four new animated videos use Xtranormal Movie Maker, which lets you to turn anything you type into a fully-animated CG movie, to promote a point of view. Fo.

No, not that Mark Zuckerberg. The other one; the Mark Zuckerberg formerly known as Rotem Guez. Technically, that was his name the last time he was sued by Facebook. See, the Zuckerberg formerly known as Guez is an enterprising fellow. He started.

Dear Santa / Father Christmas / Saint Nick / Kris Kringle / Santa Claus, I've been a good SEO this year. I tried my hardest not to contravene any webmaster guidelines, I trained my organization to do things according to best practices, and.

Google announced several small changes and new Google+ features today. Among them, the Google stream filtering feature has arrived, and finally brand pages can have more than one administrator. Google+ users can now use a sliding control to choose.

Google has added some fancy features for the hyper-mobile. Those using a mobile device to search for movies will find movie information, trailers, and the option to buy tickets from their phone, while tableteers will find a richer image search exp.

Late last week, comScore Video Metrix released its November 2011 U.S. Online Video Rankings. The data showed that 183 million U.S. Internet users watched online video content that month for an average of 20.5 hours per viewer. The total U.S. Inter.

Buy. Me. LeapPad. Online. Now! Fortunately, most Search Engine Watch readers know at least the basics of using a search engine, and we're not 7-year-olds drooling over the hottest toy of the 2011 holiday season. )Although, with just the ri.

PEW Internet recently conducted a survey in which 1087 adults )age 18 and older( were interviewed in both English and Spanish about their habits when searching for local businesses and restaurants. They were asked about both their online and offli.

Like many in the SEO community, the closing of Yahoo Site Explorer was a difficult pill to swallow. YSE was one of the most powerful tools in helping search experts to deconstruct the most important factors of an increasingly complex algorithm. .

If the weather outside today is more "delightful" than "frightful" where you live and you're wishing for some snow without all the hassles of shoveling, there's one place you can definitely see some )virtual( sn.

Google has released a compilation of StreetView images that cover 44,000 kilometers of the region devastated by Japan's March 11th tsunami and earthquake. Users can view before and after footage as if they were right there, standing on the streets.

Those wild and crazy folks at Unruly are at it again. A week ago, they announced the top 20 Global Social Video Ads Chart of 2011 in partnership with Mashable. And now Unruly has unveiled Viral Spiral, an infographic that shows the most shared vid.