Your online ad strategy stinks, Pricing Engine raises $1.25M to help

When it comes to managing online ad campaigns, we could all use a hand -- especially small businesses.

Google has 5 of the 6 most popular apps in America (and more crazy data from ComScore)

ComScore's massive report also includes data on the top web properties, the battle for search dominance between Google and Bing, and smartphone market share, among other things.

Google announces ‘biggest change to AdWords in 5 years:’ mobile is now baked in

"This is a huge simplification to how advertisers manage and track mobile advertising campaigns," Larry Kim, CEO of search marketing firm WordStream, told me today.

Internet ad revenue hits $17B, mobile ad revenues double in first half of 2012

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Funding Daily: a possible Square investment and fighting cyber threats

At VentureBeat, we come across a lot of funding news every day. In order to bring you the most information possible, we’re rounding up the quick-and-dirty details about the funding deals of the day and serving them up here in …

StyleCaster to challenge Condé Nast with ‘Style as a Service’ ads (exclusive)

Fashion-focused media company StyleCaster will launch a proprietary ad platform in mid-January that will challenge Condé Nast, Glam Media and third-party ad networks, the company revealed today.

The new ad platform, dubbed Style as a Service, is a joint venture …

Facebook’s entire business model is under fire in the EU

Perhaps you’ve heard the saying, “If you’re not paying for the product, then you are the product.”

Facebook (and just about every other free Web service) has built a business on that saying and its implications, and the European Commission …

Intergi scores ad deal with online game leader Bigpoint (exclusive)

Intergi Entertainment has nabbed an exclusive ad agreement with online games leader Bigpoint to manage Bigpoint’s online advertising in North America, the company announced today.

Bigpoint has more than 200 million registered users for its 60 online games, which include …

RadiumOne: Get ready to "like" ads

Ad network RadiumOne is following Facebook’s example as it tries to figure out whether viewers liked an ad.

The San Francisco startup is launching a new feature called the “R1 Like Button,” which brings the “like” button that Facebook popularized …