George C. Dimitriou

The Internet is poised to overtake newspapers as the second-largest U.S. advertising medium by revenue behind television, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers’ Global Entertainment and Media Outlook for 2010 to 2014.

The online ad business, excluding mobile ads, is set to expand to $34.4 billion in 2014 from $24.2 billion in 2009, according to the report.

The mobile advertising market also is poised for growth as wireless networks are upgraded and more Internet-enabled smart phones hit the market. Mobile advertising in North America is predicted to quadruple from $414 million in 2009 to $1.6 billion in 2014, according to the report.

Newspapers, meanwhile, continue to suffer from a decline in advertising revenue. According to numbers released by the Newspaper Association of America earlier this year, print advertising revenue dropped 28.6 percent in 2009 to $24.82 billion. The PwC report estimates that print advertising in newspapers will hit $22.3 billion by 2014.

Google, like other technology and telecommunications companies, regularly receives demands from government agencies to remove content from their services.
To give people information about the requests for user data or content removal they receive from government agencies around the world, Google launched a new Government Requests tool.