The latest post on ‘Mashable’ is titled “Email Providers Build Service to Protect Your Inbox From the NSA”. Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai says, “In August, Ladar Levison, the founder of Lavabit — the email service provider allegedly used by Edward Snowden — decided to shut down the entire company rather than comply with abroad surveillance request.A few hours later, spooked by Levison’s extreme move, private communications startup Silent Circle abruptly and preemptively shut down its own email service, too“. Email Providers Build Service to Protect Your Inbox... [...]

The latest post on ‘Mashable’ is titled “Neustar Buys Ad-Tech Firm Aggregate Knowledge for $119 Million”. Todd Wasserman says, “Neustar announced on Wednesday that it had purchased Aggregate Knowledge, a 7-year-old ad-tech firm, for $119 million.Although the companies didn’t disclose financial terms of the deal, AdExchanger reported that Neustar paid $119 million in cash. Neustar describes itself as a “neutral provider of real-time information and analysis to the communications services, financial services, retail, and media and advertising sectors.” Formed... [...]

The latest post on ‘Mashable’ is titled “Facebook Admits Teen Use May Be Declining”. Kurt Wagner says, “Many have claimed that Facebook‘s hold on the teenage demographic has been slipping. Facebook’s earnings call on Wednesday did nothing to squelch these claims.Facebook CFO David Ebersman said that while monitoring teen usage is a challenge, daily use among some may be declining. SEE ALSO: 20 Things Your Most Annoying Friends Do on Facebook “Youth usage among U.S. teens was stable overall from Q2 to Q3, but we did see a decrease in daily users partly among... [...]

The latest post on ‘Mashable’ is titled “Report: Bing Unveils Monster-Sized Search Ads”. Kurt Wagner says, “Bing is making sure that you never, ever miss an ad again.Microsoft‘s search engine is offering advertisers “Hero Ads,” or full-page ads, which come up when a user searches a specific company by name, according to Larry Kim, the chief technology officer of search marketing company Wordstream. If you search for “Home Depot,” “RadioShack” or “Walt Disney World” on Bing, for example, you might come face-to-face with... [...]

The latest post on ‘Mashable’ is titled “Facebook Stock Jumps 15% After Beating Q3 Earnings”. Seth Fiegerman says, “Facebook stock surged to a new high in after hours trading after the company beat earnings estimates for the third quarter.Facebook reported earnings of $0.25 per share on revenue of $2.02 billion, coming in well ahead of Wall Street estimates for earnings of $0.19 per share on revenue of $1.91 billion. Facebook revenue for the quarter was up 60% from the $1.2 billion it earned a year earlier, thanks in part to continued growth in mobile ads“. Facebook Stock... [...]

The latest post on ‘Mashable’ is titled “The Great Display Advertising Cash-In of 2013”. Todd Wasserman says, “It’s not often that you see Google, Instagram and Twitter all agree on the same thing, but suddenly all of them are giving a big thumbs up to display advertising.Display? Isn’t that the outmoded form of online advertising that was supposed to die out in the transition to mobile? Well, actually display is stronger than ever. Despite the fact that no one likes banners and no one clicks on them, the category grew 5.3% in the U.S. in the first half of 2013,... [...]

The latest post on ‘Mashable’ is titled “Google+ Overhauls Photo, Video Features in Major Update”. Kurt Wagner says, “Google+ announced 18 new features on Tuesday, including multiple updates to Hangouts and additional tools for users who utilize the site for photographs. The updates will roll out in the “coming days,” according to a spokesperson.Google+ also shared new user metrics, confirming that the site has 540 million active users if you count log-ins through Gmail and 300 million monthly active users in the stream (users who visit the website or app directly).... [...]

The latest post on ‘Mashable’ is titled “The Twitter Trap: Why Trying to Be Facebook Won’t Work”. Chris Taylor says, “As of Tuesday Twitter became a wannabe Facebook. Not just in the sense that its new image-filled feed looks a lot like the social network’s timeline. No, it’s that Twitter is becoming a restless innovator, piling on change after change, moving fast and breaking things.The difference between the social services is that Facebook restlessly innovates because that’s the way it is: a company of hackers. It is profitable, has more than a... [...]

The latest post on ‘Mashable’ is titled “Are Facebook Ads Working? The Clicks Say Yes”. Kurt Wagner says, “Days before Facebook unveils its Q3 earnings figures, multiple ad partners for the social network found that Facebook ads improved in nearly every metric in year-over-year and quarter-over-quarter comparisons.The reports come from Adobe and Kenshoo Social, which are both part of Facebook’sStrategic Preferred Marketing Developer program, meaning they drive “outstanding positive impact in [Facebook’s] marketing developer ecosystem.” The first annual... [...]

The latest post on ‘Mashable’ is titled “The 10 Companies That Own the Internet”. Zoe Fox says, “Roughly one of every seven people on the planet visited a Google web property in July. Google sites received 1.2 billion unique visitors in that month alone.Statista‘s chart, below, shows the 10 companies with the most frequently visited properties on the Internet, ranked by number of unique monthly visitors. While Google is the world leader, Microsoft, Facebook and Yahoo‘s properties are each visited by nearly one out of every nine people on earth“. The 10... [...]