Biz Break: HP's rebuilding effort, new mobile-app privacy standards and a Google-Facebook advertising dead heat

Wednesday, 22 February 2012

Biz Break: HP's rebuilding effort, new mobile-app privacy standards and a Google-Facebook advertising dead heat

Today: Hewlett-Packard bets Wall Street's earnings forecast for Meg Whitman's first quarter, but misses other forecasts as it attempts to resurrect its formidable image. Also: California and major tech companies partner in effort to enforce privacy standards on mobile apps, and Google and Facebook are neck-and-neck in display advertising race.

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Google accused of tracking iPhones
Source: WOFL FOX 35 Orlando, FL Google and other advertising companies have been bypassing the privacy settings of millions of people using Apple's Web browser on their iPhones and computers-tracking the Web-browsing habits of people who intended for that kind of monitoring to be blocke

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