No more free apps from Google! The company has just announced some significant changes to Google Apps for Business that means users can no longer sign up to the service for free.

Phil Butler

The FTC”s Jonathan Leibowitz is taking home what seems a clear message to the USA from his European counterpart, Joaquin Almunia; “Search bias just won’t fly over Europe.” On Monday FTC Chairman Jon Leibowitz met with European Commission (EC) competition commissioner Joaquin Almunia (at left) to discuss complaints that search giant Google has wrongly leveraged their dominant search position in …

Michelle Stinson Ross

Live from the Search Marketing Expo (SMX), SEJ brings you the real time SMX Social Media Marketing two-day event. We’ll tweet and report all the key issues being discussed. From optimizing your social media programs, to managing paid campaigns, Las Vegas is the place to be. For Day 1, I sat in on the Blow Me Away …

Marissa Mayer is keeping busy, and it looks like she is going strong versus Google. In a deal whose details remained undisclosed, Yahoo! acquired video chat startup OnTheAir, to bolster Yahoo’s mobile capabilities, but more realistically, to compete with Google+ Hangouts. OnTheAir launched about nine months ago, with big dreams and big ambitions, but never …

Phil Butler

Chief regulators meet in Brussels this week to discuss whether or not Google’s competitive strategies are to be litigated, mitigated, penalized, or ignored. The Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), Jon Leibowitz, is in Brussels for meetings with his counterpart, Joaquín Almunia, at the European Commission to mull over whether or not Google is unfairly leveraging …