Tag: ads

April 15, 2024

Microsoft is testing a way to further mismanage the Windows 11 Start menu: displaying icons for recommended apps. In a Friday blog post announcing the latest Windows 11 Insider Preview Build for the Beta channel, the company revealed that it’s […]

February 14, 2019

TikTok is testing a new ad product: a sponsored video ad that directs users to the advertiser’s website. The test was spotted in the beta version of the U.S. TikTok app, where a video labeled “Sponsored” from the bike retailer […]

February 14, 2018

Google on Wednesday declared war on online advertising. Again. Well, it’s not a real, full-fledged war, and it’s nothing new compared to what we already know was coming. Starting Thursday, the Chrome browser will block some of the annoying ads […]

September 14, 2016

Adblock Plus is the most popular piece of ad-blocking software in the world. But its 100 million users may soon start seeing new ads appearing on their screens after the company launched a service that will allow more “acceptable” ads […]

February 9, 2016

Wired Magazine is taking a bold step into the unknown. Starting next week, the site will give its readers who use an ad blocker an ultimatum: either stop blocking their ads, pay to view an ad-free version of the site […]

November 19, 2015

Google may lag behind its two biggest rivals in the public cloud, but Urs Hölzle, the technology titan’s senior vice president for technical infrastructure, sees Google’s cloud revenue eclipsing its ad business in five years. “I think cloud will actually […]

November 6, 2015

Today after discussions with Digital News Initiative participants, Google announced at an event in Berlin that it’s working on a new product for news publishers to entice them to upload to its service directly. Called the YouTube Embedded Player Pilot, […]

October 7, 2015

AS THE CONTROVERSY surrounding ad blocking software intensifies, Apple has welcomes an app called Been Choice into the iTunes App Store. But this isn’t just another ad blocker. As well as blocking ads in third-party apps, this one will block […]

September 25, 2015

A day I’ve anticipated for quite some time has just arrived. Today Microsoft started showing ads in the Start menu of the latest Fast ring version of Windows 10, build 10547. Not all computers are showing them just yet, but […]