Topic - adware

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Computers, General news, Internet

Facebook: Zango Adware Violates Terms

Social-networking site acknowledges Secret Crush widget adware violates application developer terms of use.
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Media

Search Heads To Interactive TV

Zodiac launches local search and click-through advertising on TVs.
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Computers, Internet

AOL’s Spyware Gaffe

AOL 9.0, called ‘badware’ by a consumer protection initiative, comes after its privacy breach.
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Internet

RH Software Report

Software news briefs for the week of April 17, 2006.
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General news, Internet

Adware’s Claria Raises $40M

The company changes course, vowing to exit the adware business and instead offer web personalization.
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Computers, General news, Security

Don’t Call It Spyware

Companies that sneak software onto your computer say they are performing a legitimate service—and cleaning up their act.
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Computers, Security, Internet

Harvard, Oxford Fight Malware

University researchers set up a Google-backed program to track spyware, adware, and other ‘badware’ back to its source.
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Media, Internet

Online Ad Firm Is Under Fire

A nonprofit group has asked the U.S. government to probe 180solutions for allegedly distributing spyware.
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Computers, Finance

WhenU Raises $15 Million

Adware firm rides the ad wave, raising a total of $35 million in three months.