I picked up this story a little late: a company called the Global Internet Freedom Consortium offers VPN’s and kindred software to get around China’s net nanny. Then they collect data on their users and sell it for personalized advertising....

State-controlled Chinese companies apparently sought to sell arms to the Gaddafi regime for use against the rebel army despite a UN embargo against such sales, according to official documents found in a bin in Tripoli.

Social media provides a conundrum for advertising. Some advertising campaigns have talkability, but rarely - if ever - fit comfortably into a social environment. Ads sell, they do not socialise. Hence the Institute of Practitioners in Advertising has commissioned a report into how the advertising industry needs to adapt its way of working in light of the social media explo...

Tianya, Bandao and other websites have joined together to form the "Internet Media Alliance Against Public Relations" against the Internet Post Deletion companies which are usually know as the "Internet hatchetmen companies." The reason was the emergence of more and...

LabourStart, the website “where trade unionists start their day” took me to China Daily today, and a report on efforts by the All-China Federation of Trade Unions (ACFTU) to unionise foreign-based multinational companies. It reported that the following companies were proving very...

ManTech and CACI are among the victims in an internet spying operation linked to China

Online services which scan users' email to generate targeted advertising are being "closely scrutinised" by the Government over internet privacy concerns.

Why do MPs insist on telling us and companies what we should do with our own money and bodies? Surely is up to companies at what price they sell their produce? If I wish to buy cheap alcohol and they wish to sell it to me, what business is it of any group of MPs to

UK media companies' single largest source of advertising revenue over the past two years has been chopped in half as the government took the axe to its marketing spending

Interesting and somewhat disturbing: Several of the various programmes adopted by internet users in China to get around net nanny filtering are storing and offering to sell data they hold on individual users. It’s hard to state how dangerous this...