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Government Regulation Expected for Social Media

A growing but controversial trend on the Internet is receiving a great deal of scrutiny from the government. The trend involves paid or sponsored endorsements, testimonials, and more on blogs and various social media sites. The Federal Trade Commission began investigating these practices earlier this year and announced it would release new rules and guidelines to update the current legislation.

As a result, marketers, advertisers, and bloggers alike are all raising concern. Is it necessary for the government to intervene? A problem does exist since consumers are directly affected by paid and sponsored posts, but is government regulation the answer?

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Comments (0) Posted by Abby Prince on Friday, September 18th, 2009

News Sites to Charge for Content

Most new sites do not currently charge for content, but that could all change within a year. During a speech in London, Financial Times Editor Lionel Barber said he could, "confidently predict that within the next 12 months, almost all news organizations will be charging for content."

This prediction comes after Rupert Murdoch of News Corporation made a statement in May in which he said his newspaper websites, such as The New York Times, would likely begin charging for content within a year. Incidentally, the New York Times recently let it slip that it was considering a $5 dollars per month subscription fee.

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Comments (0) Posted by TheCredence on Friday, July 31st, 2009

Is Twitter Being Acquired Or Not?

Twitter is in the news once again and this time it looks like it is caught in the middle of an ugly battle. Michael Arrington of TechCrunch reported that Google would buy Twitter in cash, stock, or a combination of the two and cited three unnamed sources. He also said the companies are interested in working on a Google real-time search engine.

Some time later, Kara Swisher over on All Thing Digital, reported that Arrington's story was inaccurate and cited a number of sources. Incidentally, Swisher is married to Google VP Megan Smith, which could signify that she has a credible inlet for information.

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Comments (0) Posted by TheCredence on Friday, April 3rd, 2009

FDIC Can’t Ignore Blogosphere

When the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. (FDIC) seized the IndyMac Bank on July 11, the blogosphere responded. The response however, was not what the FDIC wanted to hear.

The IndyMac Bank was one of the largest bank failures since the 1980's. The blogosphere began to speculate other bank failures from some of California's largest banks.

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Comments (0) Posted by TheCredence on Friday, July 25th, 2008

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