While providers of adware, or software-based marketing tools, continue to nudge their way into the reluctant embrace of online marketers, consumers have not been shy about speaking out against them, ...

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The decision by adware leader Claria to postpone its initial public offering comes as the fast-growing business of advertising-supported software is increasingly coming under pressure. For years, ...

Hackers Scam Android Phone Makers to Install 'Triada' Adware Hackers masqueraded as a software vendor that phone makers believed would help them add features to the standard Android OS. Instead, they ...

Adware company 180Solutions has quietly agreed to purchase CDT, one of its own distributors, in a deal that may foretell shifting business practices in a controversial corner of the Net advertising ...

Zango Inc., the adware distributor that has tangled with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), laid off 68 employees — about a third of its workforce — earlier this week, according to a senior executive ...