Google AdSense now optimized for mobile devices
Google AdSense team has announced that they are now providing improved support on higher end smartphones which are capable of displaying the websites in their original format.
The company said in a blog posting:
Today, we’re excited to announce a new feature for our AdSense mobile publishers that enables them to [...]

Google AdSense to feature YouTube promoted videos!
Google AdSense has announced that the service would now deliver YouTube promoted videos in the media ads.
The company has now launched YouTube Promoted Videos in AdSense ad units.
This service would enable content providers on YouTube to get a much wider reach on the web.
Currently, these ads [...]

Google AdSense: Updated font faces for different ad sizes
Google AdSense team has revealed that they are now going to change the default font faces shown in different ad sizes.
The new defaults are:
Arial: 728×90, 336×280, 120×600, 120×240
Verdana: 300×250, 160×600, 468×60, 250×250, 234×60, 125×125, 180×150
Times New Roman: 200×200
Google developers said in a blog posting:
In the same [...]

Rosetta Stone suing Google for trademark infringement
Rosetta Stone has become the latest company to file a lawsuit against Google for trademark infringement related to the Google AdWords advertising platform.
Rosetta Stone claims that Google is allowing their rivals to use their brand name and other trademarks on the advertising platform.
Google has not yet commented on [...]

Google AdSense for Mobile Applications launched
Google has finally entered the market of providing advertising solutions for mobile applications.
The company has now launched AdSense for Mobile Applications in beta.
Google said in a blog post about this new product:
AdSense for Mobile Applications allows developers to earn revenue by displaying text and image ads in their [...]

Google updates AdSense font size
Google has just posted on their AdSense blog that they are now increasing the default size of AdSense powered ads.
They have increased the size from small to medium.
This would now be applicable to all publishers who have not manually set the size on their ads.
Google recently provided access to AdSense [...]

Google Product Ads being tested with limited publishers
Google has started testing new format ads with a limited group of testers.
These new format ads are essentially Product Ads and they would be different from their current text ads.
Google Product Ads would include tons of information about the item being highlighted.
Reports say that Google is [...]

Google AdSense now allowing publishers to change font size!
Google recently allowed publishers to pick a font for the AdSense powered ads. Only three fonts were provided though.
They are now allowing publishers to pick the font size!
Publishers are now allowed to change the font size of the text in their ad units. Three options [...]

Google’s Greg Badros is the new Director of Engineering of Facebook
Google has lost yet another senior executive, this time to social networking giant Facebook.
Facebook has hired Greg Badros as their new Director of Engineering.
He was previously with Google.
He was part of the original Google AdSense engineering team. He has also worked on their [...]

Google Maps Ad Unit launched
Google has announced the launch of their Google Maps Ad Unit.
This new advertising service would enable developers to make money from the mashups created using Google Maps service through Google Maps API.
This new service is an opt-in setting and it overlays advertisements powered by Google AdSense over embedded maps [...]