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As market penetration rates for mobile services continue to increase in emerging markets, advertisers are expected to significantly increase their spending on third-screen ad campaigns targeted towards users of mobile data services, according to a new report by Pyramid Research. The report examined mobile advertising and revenue potential in the emerging markets of Brazil, China, Indonesia, Mexico, Romania, Russia, South Africa, and Turkey.

A patent application filed by Yahoo is causing a bit of a stir within the SEO community. The patent is for an "Automated System to Improve Search Engine Optimization on Web Pages." The abstract for the patent reads as follows:

Google has decided to shut down some of its services, as well as trim some recruiting jobs, and consolidate engineering offices. Services that Google is shutting down include:

Given all that's gone on at Microsoft lately, it's hard to believe that the company has been running around without anyone in charge of its Online Services Group.  That period is coming to an end, though, as Dr. Qi Lu, a former Yahoo exec, has gotten the job.

Over the next five years spending on IT cloud services is expected to grow nearly threefold, reaching $42 billion by 2012 and accounting for 9 percent of revenues in five key market segments, according to a survey from IDC.Spending on cloud computing is on track to accelerate during the forecast period, capturing 25 percent of IT spending growth in 2012 and close to a third in 2013.

Google is reportedly blocking use of it's Chrome browser (among other applications like Google Talk and Gmail Notifier)  in some countries with which the United States has economic sanctions and export controls with. "We are unable to permit the download of Google Chrome in Cuba, Syria, North Korea, Iran, and Sudan," says a Google Spokesperson.

You have Twellow as sort of a "Yellow Pages" for Twitter. Now today Robert Balousek has released Twintro, a new tool for finding "interesting" Twitterers. From the sounds of it, you just get to read tweets from someone that Twintro deems interesting. Balousek describes it on his blog:

Amazon.com has introduced two new online payment services that other retailers can use on their Web sites.The new payment services, Checkout By Amazon and Amazon Simple Pay offer businesses another payment option besides PayPal and Google Checkout.