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Top News: Big decisions at Groupon, Yahoo | .XXX begins | Twitter and Bing

Business Strategies: Yahoo! dumps CEO; Groupon delays IPO. Amazon’s future is so much bigger than a tablet. Mobile Computing: Droid Bionic finally   [...]
Posted: Wednesday, September 7th 2011

Top News: Foodie.com, a new food vertical? | Facebook Credits go global | Yahoo's app search | Me on the Web

Domains: Why did Glam Media spend over $100K on Foodie.com? Social Media: Facebook Credits goes global with additional support in 13 countries. Facebook is armed with HTML5 and gunning   [...]
Posted: Thursday, June 16th 2011

Top News: Apple reverses cours on in-app subscriptions | Global network data traffic | IPv6 | Citi hacked

Mobile Marketing: Apple reverses course on in-app subscriptions. Internet Traffic: Google, France Telecom said to consider network data traffic agreement. A   [...]
Posted: Thursday, June 9th 2011

Top News: Congress looks at online privacy | Data miners get ready to reveal cards | Facebook seeks friends in Washington | Verizon LTE blows through data cap

Privacy: Some data-miners ready to reveal what they know. Policing privacy on the web debated in Congress. Facebook   [...]
Posted: Friday, December 3rd 2010

Top News: Groupon trades for $2.5B? | The madness continues with Cyber Monday | Networks worry about Hulu's ad sales|

Cyber Monday: Cyber Monday deals will be more aggressive and more widespread, retail group says. Next up: Cyber Monday, e-tailers' big day. Cyber Monday to   [...]
Posted: Monday, November 29th 2010

Industry Buzz & News: 5/10/10

Online Ad Market: Citysearch plans reputation management product. Campaigns & Creatives: Concert promoters embrace new media for fan services. Privacy:  [...]
Posted: Monday, May 10th 2010

Industry Buzz & Snippets: 11/17/09

Media Strategies: Plans for iPods and iPhones to carry advertising that won't turn off. US consumers less willing to pay for online news. All eyes on Murdoch as newspapers   [...]
Posted: Tuesday, November 17th 2009

Competing Groups Vie for .Gay Web Suffix

Two for-profit groups are planning to start the application process to create a top-level website domain, “.gay,” adding another suffix to a growing list that includes “.com,” “.edu,” “.org,” and “.net,” the New York Times reports. The petitions for the new gay-focused domain reflect a growing adoption of top-level internet domains by various causes - such as the en  [...]
Posted: Monday, October 26th 2009

Click-Happy Tweeters View Ads Twice as Much

Twitter users are nearly twice as likely to click on internet ads, review products online and visit advertiser and company profiles than those who use only traditional social networks, such as MySpace or Facebook, according to a study from media research firm Interpret, LLC (via paidcontent.org). The survey, which was condu  [...]
Posted: Tuesday, September 29th 2009

Porn Spammers Penetrate SocNets, Power Down on Email

About 15% of Twitter traffic, 10% of MySpace traffic and 7% of Facebook traffic is porn spam, according to security expert Alexandru Catalin Cosoi of BitDefender, as quoted in The Globe and Mail. What's more, as porn spam rises on social sites, email-based porn spam has begun to drop. Twitter, presently the "it" brand of social network  [...]
Posted: Friday, September 11th 2009

Nearly Half of Employers Use SocNets to Probe Candidates

Nearly half (45%) of US employers use social networking sites to dig up information about job candidates, a significant jump from 22% last year, according to a survey commissioned by CareerBuilder, which also found that another 11% of employers have plans in the works to start using social networking sites for screening.   [...]
Posted: Thursday, September 10th 2009

Email, Text-Message Coupons Click with 8% of Households

Text messaging and email are quickly emerging as ways to obtain coupons in the US, with 8.6 million (8%) of the country's households currently using one or both of these methods to receive money-saving offers, according to (pdf) an analysis from Scarborough Research that explores and ranks the ways households obtain coupons. The study, which recently added electronic coupon distribution to the obtainment methods it has historically tracked, also found that Providence, RI is the top city for   [...]
Posted: Tuesday, September 8th 2009

SocNets Serve 20% of Online Display Ads

Social networking sites accounted for more than 20% of display ads viewed online, with MySpace and Facebook combining to deliver over 80% of ads for the social networking category, according to a June 2009 comScore study of US online display advertising on s  [...]
Posted: Friday, September 4th 2009

Gmailers More Engaged than Yahoo, AOL, Hotmail Users

Subscribers to Google's popular Gmail service exhibit higher click and open rates and lower bounce rates than subscribers to Yahoo mail, Hotmail and AOL email, and thus appear to be more engaged with the email messages they receive, according to a study by Mail Chimp. A recent analysis of the statistics for more 184 million emails sent  [...]
Posted: Tuesday, September 1st 2009

TV Viewers Hit 'Net for Summer Break; YouTube Keeps Lead

With network TV on summer hiatus, TV viewers are pursuing professional content over the 'net. Over 158 million viewers consumed an average of 135 videos over the course of July, according to data from comScore Video Metrix. Online video viewing hit an all-time high, totaling 21.4 billion views in July alone.  [...]
Posted: Friday, August 28th 2009

E-Tail, Auto Sites and Hollywood Top July Site Visits/Growth

Riding the strength of the popular Cash for Clunkers program, which enables car owners to exchange old vehicles for cash, websites for automotive manufacturers enjoyed disproportionate popularity in July, according to new figures from TNS Media's Compete. Compete just released its most current Competet 250, a monthly ranking of the top 250 trafficked websites.   [...]
Posted: Monday, August 24th 2009

25% Boost in Visitors Makes Gmail a Top-3 US Email Provider

New comScore figures report Gmail, the web mail service provided by Google, is now the third-largest in the US. In July, it eclipsed AOL Email with 37 million unique visitors to the latter's 36.4 million. The second-most popular, Windows Live Hotmail, had 47 million visitors the same month. For the present time, No. 1 web mail player Yahoo Mail remains safely out of reach of Gmail's long arm, having served 106 million unique visitors. Unique visito  [...]
Posted: Thursday, August 20th 2009

Googlers Search More than MicroHoo Minions

New data from comScore reflects that Google doesn't just dominate the search market by a large margin; its users are also more loyal and more inclined to search in general than Yahoo and Microsoft searchers. The analytics firm reports that Google holds 84% of the overall search market. In contrast, recently-allied rivals Microsoft and Yahoo enjoy combined search penetration of 73%. Despite what appe  [...]
Posted: Tuesday, August 18th 2009

Compete: Bing Lifts Search; iPhone Drives Traffic to Apple, AT&T

Compete, a TNS Media company, today released a snapshot from the Compete 250 - its monthly ranking of the top 250 trafficked Web sites. In June 2009, new product launches, including Apple's iPhone and Microsoft's Bing search engine, triggered traffic surges for three top-50 sites - Apple.com, ATT.com and Bing.com. In addition, entertainment sites TMZ.com and eonline.com saw spikes as the news of Michael Jackson's death rippled across the Web. Facebook quiz apps, including the 'How well do you kn  [...]
Posted: Tuesday, August 18th 2009

Facebook, Twitter Drive Aussie SocNet Use Up 29%

Over 70% of Australian internet users visited a social networking site in June, a 29% rise from the same time last year, reports comScore. Facebook in particular demonstrated significant growth; Twitter benefited from sudden mainstream popularity in 2009. Nearly nine million Australians visited a social network in June, making it among the more popular content categories online. Facebook led the sector with over 6 million visitors, growing 95% from last year; MySpace -- whose social networ  [...]
Posted: Monday, August 17th 2009