Facebook battle against ad blockers is a sign of what’s to come
Facebook’s announcement on Tuesday that it had implemented a work around that will make sure its ads are shown to users even if they are using an ad blocking plugin is a sign that the battle over internet advertising and how websites generate money is heating up.
UK Police to replace banner ads on piracy sites with copyright warnings
British visitors to copyright-infringing websites will start to see warnings from the police in the place of banner adverts for Usenet and VPNs, in the latest phase of Operation Creative.
Google buys Nest to push towards the “Internet of Things”
Google has acquired Nest for $3.2 billion for the single reason of moving further into your home, both to gather more data on how you live, and to be at the heart of home automation and the “Internet of Things”.
Paywalls Are a Last Resort
Information about this world we live in shouldn’t be locked out of the eyes of the majority of the population. But the problem we have at the moment is that internet advertising rates are so low that it is forcing newspapers to put up paywalls to make a return on the articles they publish.