Juniper Research has predicted that demand for Web 2.0 services on mobile phones and the associated annual revenues from those services will reach $18.9 billion by 2014. (more…)
Recent ‘internet’ News Stories
Google Building Experimental Broadband Network
Thursday, 18th February 2010Google has recently announced that they are planning to build a new experimental high speed broadband network across a few locations in the U.S.A. (more…)
Tags: broadband, google, internet
Posted in google, internet | 1 Comment »
Yelp Turned Down Microsoft Too
Thursday, 11th February 2010About two months ago, when Yelp turned down an offer from Google, there had been speculation that Yelp had received a counter offer from Microsoft. (more…)
Tags: google, local-search, microsoft, yelp
Posted in internet | 3 Comments »
AOL Ranked Top US Ad Network
Friday, 22nd January 2010According to data released by comScore, AOL Advertising was the top ad network in the USA in December 2009. ComScore’s reasearch results show that AOL Advertising had access to 187 million U.S. Internet users. (more…)
Tags: advertising, affiliate marketing, aol, content-network, google, microsoft, yahoo
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Microsoft Plans To Make Hay While Google Battles China
Wednesday, 20th January 2010Following Google’s recent declaration that the search engine might pull out of China if it is not allowed to show uncensored search results, the spotlight has also fallen on rival, Microsoft, who has also started operations in China. (more…)
Tags: baidu, censorship, china, google, microsoft, search, yahoo
Posted in internet | 1 Comment »
Google China Backtracks On Censorship Decision
Thursday, 14th January 2010Following a spate of highly sophisticated and targeted attacks on Google’s infrastructure, which originated from China, Google has decided to review their business operations in that country. (more…)
Tags: censorship, china, google
Posted in google, internet, multilingual | 1 Comment »
Microsoft Users Click More
Monday, 14th December 2009Data released by advertising network Chitika should be of great interest to online marketers and advertisers. Their research revealed that Microsoft users tend to click more on ads than users of other operating systems, search engines and browsers. (more…)
Tags: aol, apple, chrom, chrome, display-advertising, firefox, google, microsoft, pay-per-click, ppc, windows
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Most Time Spent Online Is On Microsoft Sites
Wednesday, 11th November 2009A new report from comScore measuring spent by users on various Internet sites found that Microsoft is way ahead of the pack. (more…)
Tags: facebook, google, internet, microsoft, yahoo
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Browsers And Browsing Activity
Tuesday, 27th October 2009If marketers and advertisers could find out exactly when, and on which browser their users were most active, it could help them to reach their target audience better. Towards this end, Erik Hansen of Microsoft conducted some insightful studies. (more…)
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Four Billion Photos On Flickr
Wednesday, 14th October 2009Yahoo!’s popular photo sharing site Flickr continues to grow in popularity, leaving Google Picasa far behind. Only last Saturday, the 12th of October 2009, one of Flickr’s users posted the 4 billionth photo on the site. (more…)
Tags: flickr, yahoo
Posted in internet | 3 Comments »
Yahoo! Buzz Launches In India
Friday, 29th May 2009Yahoo! has been trying hard to reestablish themselves in the market in spite of tough competition and a global recession. To achieve this goal, they are making a number of changes in various aspects of their business. (more…)
Tags: india, yahoo, yahoo-buzz
Posted in internet | 1 Comment »
Microsoft Creates A New Decision Engine
Friday, 29th May 2009Microsoft is planning to make some major changes in the way search results are provided to their users. In fact, they are planning to launch a conceptually new ‘Decision Engine’ that could revolutionise the way users think about search. (more…)
Tags: bing, live-search, microsoft, search, search-engine-marketing
Posted in internet, search | No Comments »
Phorm Whips Up Privacy Storm
Tuesday, 5th May 2009The new online technology used by Phorm has created quite a stir and has upset advocates of user privacy. All the negative publicity has the company up in arms and representative for Phorm (who has requested not to be named!) has replied to our original post. His feedback has been shared here. (more…)
Tags: ad, advertising, european-union, internet, marketing, Phorm, uk
Posted in News, internet | 5 Comments »
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