The NYTimes Media team has posted an article on Pinterest advertising. Mike Isaac says, “A quick glance at the digital scrapbook Pinterest makes it seem like the anti-Facebook. It has no stream filled with friends’ faces and baby pictures, but rather a sprawling, colorful grid of recipes, photographs of clothes and a shopping list of presents to buy for loved ones. Yet Pinterest wants to be like Facebook in one notable way: Soon some of the slick-looking photos on its site may be advertisements from the world’s biggest consumer brands — ads, Pinterest hopes, users actually want to... [...]

The NYTimes Bits team has posted an article in connection with the recent China web crash. The article is titled “Big Web Crash in China: Experts Suspect Great Firewall”. Nicole Perlroth says, “The story behind what may have been the biggest Internet failure in history involves an unlikely cast of characters, including a little-known company in a drab building in Wyoming and the world’s most elite army of Internet censors a continent away in China. On Tuesday, most of China’s 500 million Internet users were unable to load websites for up to eight hours. Nearly every Chinese... [...]

Quentin Hardy has posted an article titled “Google Apps Challenging Microsoft in Business” on NYTimes Technology. Hardy says, “It has taken years, but Google seems to be cutting into Microsoft’s stronghold — businesses. Google’s software for businesses,Google Apps, consists of applications for document writing, collaboration, and text and video communications — all cloud-based, so that none of the software is on an office worker’s computer. Google has been promoting the idea for more than six years, and it seemed that it was going to appeal mostly to small businesses... [...]