The major wireless carriers and Google filed their responses to the Federal Communication Commission’s questions about early termination fees, but they surely won’t put the issue to rest. The FCC isn’t likely to be satisfied with the answers it got from the carriers, especially Verizon Wireless, which reiterated much of what it told the agency in its previous response on the subject. – Read More

[from Detroit Free Press] – Today, Toyota CEO Akio Toyoda, grandson of Toyotaand#39;s founder, faces the often more vocal House Oversight and Government Reform at 11… – Read More

Twitter will see more exposure on Yahoo’s content sites, communication tools, and search results pages. – Read More

This is the fourth in a series of columns I’m publishing in MediaPost featuring interviews I’ve conducted while writing my book, “Everything I Know About Marketing I Learned From Google.” Today is a 2-for-1 special with Paul Gunning and John Battelle. Gunning is CEO at Tribal DDB Worldwide. Battelle is CEO of Federated Media (FM) Publishing, and author of “The Search,” a book that stands the test of time as the defining narrative on the rise of Google and the importance of search. So, what did these captains of industry learn from Google? Read on… – Read More

About 80% of the advertisers tapping into Google’s Ad Builder these days are new to display advertising, according to Susan Wojcicki, vice president of product management at Google. Most have a history running paid search ads, she tells me. So I ask her if advertisers benefit from running both display and paid search ads simultaneously. Since results may vary by advertiser, Wojcicki declined to speak definitively without data to back up the claim. But a recent study could do the explaining for her. – Read More

Sounding an alarmist note about peer-to-peer networks, the Federal Trade Commission said today it has informed more than 100 schools, business and local governments that sensitive data about their customers and employees has landed on file-sharing networks. Long associated with copyright infringement, peer-to-peer networks already have an image problem. But, while there’s no question that some people have used peer-to-peer networks to share copyrighted files, or that some people have inadvertently shared private documents via such networks, vilifying the technology itself won’t solve either problem. – Read More

Boston grad student Joel Tenenbaum is arguing in new legal papers that the $675,000 damage award against him for sharing 30 tracks on Kazaa should be reduced because the most he could have cost the record labels totaled $21, or 70% of the 99-cent purchase price on iTunes. – Read More

[from Biz Jounrals] – In another sign of the mobile applications market heating up, PocketGear has acquired smartphone app provider Handango to create a mobi… – Read More

[from VentureBeat] – Wild Tangent a gaming ad network has announced an effort it hopes will inject social and casual gaming — from FramVille to massively … – Read More

Last week’s announcement of Google’s (relatively small) acquisition of Aardvark, the real-time social QandA start-up founded by — you guessed it — a group of ex-Googlers, actually received a fair amount of buzz. Which was on top of the abundant buzz generated by Google’s release of Google Buzz. Which, of course, follows last year’s buzz about Google Wave. So how are these related and what, you may ask, do Aardvark, Buzz and Wave have to do with search? – Read More