Nov 16, 2010 | Uncategorized
Facebook is now worth more than eBay in terms of privately held stock, making it the third- largest US internet business, and fueling speculation that the social network could sell shares to the public in the not-to-distant future. Facebook’s stock is trading at more...
Nov 15, 2010 | Uncategorized
Facebook accounts for almost one third of all ad impressions among top publishers (billions, Q3, 2010).
Nov 15, 2010 | Uncategorized
Sector size as a share of 2009 GDP.
Nov 15, 2010 | Uncategorized
Indonesia eclipses the United Kingdom as the second-largest Facebook market behind the united States, with 29.8 million users.
Nov 15, 2010 | Uncategorized
YouTube is trialing a new service called ‘Topics on Search’, giving viewers examples of related searches. The tool, available on the video sharing site’s beta testing area ‘TestTube’, uses an algorithm that looks at video tags, comments, shares, viewing patters, and...
Nov 15, 2010 | Uncategorized
Newspapers will increasingly to act more like cable channels as they move to the web and mobile apps, creating a wholesale marketplace for advertising, according to James Murdoch, James Murdoch, News Corp.’s chairman for Europe and Asia. “Digital news will look like...
Nov 14, 2010 | Uncategorized
Billions of searches: Worldwide internet searches increased from 90 billion in December 2008 to 131 billion in December 2009, a rise of 46%.
Nov 14, 2010 | Uncategorized
Netherlands and UK lead in intensity of web use. Number of times the internet was accessed by average visits per visitor (September 2010)
Nov 13, 2010 | Uncategorized
Mobile internet devices outsold computers in 2009 by 144 million units.
Nov 12, 2010 | Uncategorized
Around 19.2 million UK households are now online, but just 26% of those on the lowest incomes have access to the web, according to new research. In its first ever collation of trends in “e-society”, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) reveals that 83%...
Nov 12, 2010 | Uncategorized
Rivalry between Google and Facebook is intensifying, with the world’s two biggest internet companies locking horns over the export of user’s contact data from GMail to Facebook, with Google even encouraging its users to file a complaint against the social network....
Nov 12, 2010 | Uncategorized
Three in four (75%) of YouTube Mobile users say that their mobile is the number one device they use to watch YouTube videos, according to new stats issued by Google. According to Nielsen, YouTube Mobile is the number one video viewing mobile website in the US, with...
Nov 12, 2010 | Uncategorized
Google has denied building a social network to compete with Facebook, despite months of rumours that the internet giant was working on a new social platform ‘Google Me’. 12/11/2010 “We’re not working on a social network platform that’s just going to...
Nov 11, 2010 | Uncategorized
Top ten advertisers based on billions of online display advertising impressions (221 billion impressions (221 billion impressions, Q3, 2010).
Nov 11, 2010 | Uncategorized
Ask.com is cutting 130 engineering jobs and outsourcing its search technology, as the internet icon finally concedes that it cannot compete with Google and Bing in the search market. In a move similar to Yahoo, which recently outsourced its search technology to...
Nov 10, 2010 | Uncategorized
Google is bringing its contextual AdSense ads to its AdMob platform, the mobile advertising technology it bought in 2009. Google’s AdSense focuses on context, serving up ads the software believes match the website’s content. The move means AdSense ads...
Nov 10, 2010 | Uncategorized
The BBC has announced plans to make its popular iPlayer online video platform available for International users, for a fee. The announcement was made by John Smith, Chief Executive of BBC Worldwide. Although there has been no official statement as yet from the BBC...
Nov 10, 2010 | Uncategorized
Google has launched a new tool that allows searchers to see previews of websites before clicking on them in the results page. The “Instant Previews” feature announced Tuesday is meant to help people bypass websites that are either irrelevant or simply too...
Nov 10, 2010 | Uncategorized
Nearly 1.3 trillion display ads were delivered to U.S. Internet users during the third quarter, up 22% on last year, according to new data. comScore’s overview of the U.S. online display advertising market for Q3 2010, which showed strong gains following softness for...
Nov 10, 2010 | Uncategorized
More than a third of people intend to reduce their spend this Christmas, with 65% of people planning to start their shopping early in order to spread the cost in the wake of the Government’s spending cuts, according to a new forecast. The latest e-Customer...