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Beginnning Dec. 13, loud commercials will cease to exist. That's when the U.S. Federal Communications Commission will start enforcing in earnest the Commercial Advertisement Loudness Mitigation Act, or CALM Act, enacted in 2010.

In a brain-scan study, obese children's brains lit up in reward areas much more than healthy children's when seeing food-related logos.

An Australian men’s magazine, ZOO Weekly, is under fire for a post on its Facebook page asking men which half of a woman chopped in two they would choose.

Plyfe, the website that allows customers to get unusual rewards by playing games on Facebook, is now available via smartphones.

Shares of Facebook (Nasdaq: FB) surged as much as 9 percent after two major investment firms upgraded their ratings.

Facebook is working on a new feature that would allow users to post specifically commercial content or classified ads in an area separate from their individual wall.

CEO Mayer, while she wasn’t asked about a revision, said Yahoo “hasn’t been completely consistent ... in terms of our overall site design.”

Facebook (Nasdaq: FB) is expected to report its first profit as a public company and may hint at ways to keep growing.

Facebook Inc. (Nasdaq: FB) introduced “Collections” on Monday, another new feature to augment sponsored and branded content on its popular social network.

Google Inc's (Nasdaq: GOOG) YouTube unit will expand the channel experiment begun last year with around 60 new channels launching across Europe.

As Facebook hits the 1-billion-member mark, it hopes to turn each user into an advertiser, whether they realize it or not.

Google (Nasdaq: GOOG), set new a record high of $761.98 Tuesday on expectations that search and advertising gain will propel earnings higher.

Facebook is making a controversial move to optimize its advertising revenue by stepping further into comprehensive data monitoring.

Though 'Mad Men' broke new dramatic ground in season 5, and has clearly established itself as an Academy favorite, one thing it can't count on is the pathos vote.

The latest United Colors of Benetton promotional campaign, valued at approximately $26 million, will give seed money to young entrepreneurs whose ideas are most popular among registered visitors to the company's site.

The worldwide cloud services market is estimated to grow 19.6 percent in 2012 to surpass the $109-billion mark, according to a new report by Gartner.

As traditional video games companies like Electronic Arts and Activision Vision struggle to find their way in the free-to-play Internet-based gaming environment, "freemium" companies like Zynga and Kixeye continue to seek the new Holy Grail: monetizing online games.

Venezuela and Colombia are both rich in natural beauty, but have taken two very different approaches to tourism. One has seen tourist numbers stagnate while the other is an international success story. What happened, and why are two neighbors so radically different?

The actors who appeared in the Islamophobic movie that set off violent protests across the Middle East have maintained that they thought they were making a simple adventure movie set in Biblical times. Some entertainment law experts say the actors might have grounds to sue the filmmaker who duped them.

After seeing the unprecedented success of a title like "Fifty Shades of Grey," casual readers and publishing industry analysts alike were led to wonder what the future of digital publishing held for the book industry as Amazon Inc. (Nasdaq: AMZN) continues to edge out traditional publishing houses and retailers alike with its aggressive competitive pricing scheme. In an email sent to literary agents unearthed by GigaOM on Thursday, Amazon Publishing Vice President Jeff Belle revealed some ...

President Barack Obama has opened a slim lead over Mitt Romney in three battleground states, according to a new series of NBC News/Wall Street Journal/Marist poll.