Wednesday, April 4, 2012

Senator actor Al Franken Claims Free Market Incapable of Regulating Facebook and Google - with links of the day

So, it's time for yet another look at the best of the web. I've dug up stuff on Google, LivingSocial and Nokia.

To kick it off, who has been discussing Google? It was www.searchenginejournal.com with their write-up entitled Senator Al Franken Claims Free Market Incapable of Regulating Facebook and Google.

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Google: also known as The Big G

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What did they point out about Google? They said:
U.S. Democratic Senator Al Franken, who is the chairman of the Senate subcommittee on Privacy, Technology, and the Law, recently accused Google and Facebook of blatantly disregarding users' privacy
and went on to say
Franken stated that he believes Americans' privacy is an antitrust issue and feels that some technology companies have become immune to normal market pressures. Since consumers primarily rely on the free market to govern the actions of large corporations, he hypothesized that market dominance can lead to a relative disregard for consumers' privacy


Next up it's a site that's been writing about LivingSocial - LivingSocial Books 1 Millionth Hotel Reservation.

They wrote:
Today LivingSocial announced that its Escapes program has booked one million reservations since its inception in November, 2010
... interesting ...
The rooms were booked in over 1,400 hotel, lodging and tour partners around the world. Escapes bookings can include anything from African Safaris and all-inclusive beach vacations in the tropics, to shopping trips and quiet bed and breakfast retreats


To finish we have Nokia Takes on Apple in 'Hidden Camera' Ad Campaign [VIDEOS] from mashable.com, focussing on Nokia. They made several good points, particularly
Nokia is coming out swinging in an attempted comeback into the U.S. market
and
Sidelined in the smartphone wars in the U.S., Nokia is planning to make a splash with an ambitious campaign for the Lumia 900. In addition to Nokia's ad effort, Jeff Bradley, AT&T's device head, said the carrier's campaign will be a "notch above anything we've ever done," even for the iPhone.

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