Wajam: From start-up to massively-spread adware

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How a Montreal-made "social search engine" application has managed to become widely-spread adware, while escaping consequences

Wajam Internet Technologies is a start-up founded in December 2008 by Martin-Luc Archambault (a famous entrepreneur in Quebec) and based in Montreal, Canada. The core product of the company is a social search engine application (i.e. it allows searching through the content shared by your contacts on social networks). Figure 1 illustrates an example of what Wajam displays when performing a Google search.
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