News articles for February 2012

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  Brits not fussed about Google privacy changes

  29th February 2012

  British Google users appear to be nonplussed about the US company's new privacy rules which are due to come into force tomorrow.
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  French regulators to probe Google privacy changes

  29th February 2012

  Google’s controversial new privacy policy is to be investigated by France’s data protection watchdog amid concerns that it may contravene European privacy law.
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  Yahoo issues patent warning

  28th February 2012

  Online search engine Yahoo has demanded that social networking site Facebook stump up licensing fees for what it claims is the unauthorised use of its technology.
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  Councils soften approach towards social media

  27th February 2012

  Local authorities in the UK are taking a more relaxed approach to the use of social media by employees.
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  Facebook users ‘tightening privacy settings’

  27th February 2012

  A new study has indicated that Facebook users are becoming increasingly protective of their online data, adjusting security settings and regulating what goes on to their pages.
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  Tech and smartphone giants agree to new privacy disclosures

  23rd February 2012

  Smartphone users will get more information about what details their phone-makers share about them when they make downloads, under a new state ruling in California.
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  Google gives PPC advertisers more bites of the cherry

  23rd February 2012

  Google is improving the prospects of advertisers attracting more click-throughs to their websites, by increasing the number of links they can include in their online ads.
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  Car dealer group puts improved profits partly down to social media efforts

  22nd February 2012

  Raising its social media profile and investing in mobile phone apps have paid dividends for one of the UK's biggest car dealership networks.
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  Twitter and Yandex link up to offer real-time tweet search

  21st February 2012

  In a move which acknowledges Twitter's growing importance as a source of real-time information, the microblogging site has signed a second deal with a major search engine which will see it instantly index users' tweets.
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  New plug-in pinpoints lost Facebook friends

  21st February 2012

  A new browser plug-in can now show users exactly who has 'unfriended' them on Facebook.