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It doesn’t take a MBA from Harvard to figure out that photo sharing is big these days. Matter of fact, photo sharing has been big for quite a while (Yahoo acquired Flickr, remember?). What has shifted in a big way is ‘how’ photos are shared online and mobile has been a big part of that [...] > read more

Bing Now Powers Over 30% Of American Searches

Published on 2012-05-25 07:54:24

It took a while but it looks like cash-sucking Bing is finally starting to do something positive for Microsoft. Experian Hitwise is reporting that the search engine which also powers a portion of Yahoo’s search, now accounts for more than 30% of all US searches. That’s a big deal, not least because it means that [...] > read more

75% Of American Moms Use Facebook

Published on 2012-05-25 04:54:21

The American mom is quietly establishing herself as an integral part of the online world. Not content with just taking the kids along for soccer, the American mom is now at the heart of the online vanguard—from blogging to social media, she’s making she sure that her impact is felt. That impact has been captured [...] > read more

Demand Media Generated $86.2 Million In Revenue Q1 2012

Published on 2012-05-24 10:40:09

The company behind popular online information and how-to portal eHow seems to have finally sussed the formula for success with digital publishing. Demand Media is reporting a whopping $86.2 million in revenues for the first quarter of 2012. The figure represents an 8% year-on-year growth and CEO Richard Rosenblatt wasted no time in explaining to [...] > read more

21% Of American Adults Have Read E-Books

Published on 2012-05-24 07:40:08

The E-Book was for a long time, one of those things that many felt just wouldn’t fly—something that was too much of gimmick to really take hold. That skepticism was based largely on the fact that the technology wasn’t particularly good and the experience of reading a book electronically couldn’t match the ease of opening [...] > read more

Hackers Expose 55,000 Twitter Accounts

Published on 2012-05-24 04:40:06

Twitter has proven yet again that despite all the millions at its disposal, it is perhaps still, the least secure social network. This time hackers have snuck in and exposed 55,000 accounts and many of which include the usernames and passwords for many top celebrities. The listing of all 55,000 account login credentials were posted [...] > read more

90% Of Marketers Use Social Media For Their Work

Published on 2012-05-23 13:58:16

Marketers usually stand at the vanguard of anything that’s new and different so it comes as no surprise that marketers are relying heavily on social media in their daily business lives. A recent study conducted by Pagemodo found that social media is not only heavily used, but has a high perceived value among adopters. According [...] > read more

Pandora Now Has 150 Million Registered Users

Published on 2012-05-23 10:39:39

Online personalized radio service Pandora is fast becoming the go-to source for entertainment of that kind. The service now has a whopping 150 million users, many of which have joined up in recent months thanks to the surge in engagement with mobile devices. Speaking at a recent conference, Pandora CEO, Joe Kennedy gave some insight [...] > read more

23% Of LinkedIn Users Are Age 24 Or Below

Published on 2012-05-23 07:39:38

LinkedIn is one of the fastest growing social networks around today and so far it has over 135 million users worldwide. The majority of its user base lives in the US and most are doing pretty well by most standards. A recent look into LinkedIn demographics found that most of the social professionals that hang [...] > read more

91% Of Students Use Email To Communicate With Professors

Published on 2012-05-23 04:39:38

Traditional learning involves lots of face-to-face interaction between teachers and their students but in the last 10 years or so, all that has been tuned on its head. Students still interact with students in the classroom, but there is a growing presence of ‘online’ tuition and the ways in which students interact with their face-to-face [...] > read more

14% Of All American Moms Are Bloggers

Published on 2012-05-22 10:39:31

Blogging has gone from a small hobby to a major hobby—especially among moms. And has a recent study from H&R Block confirms, the so-called mommy blogger is becoming very influential and making lots of money doing it. The study found that 14% of all American moms with at least one child run their own blog. [...] > read more

Viddy Now Has 26 Million Users

Published on 2012-05-22 07:39:30

Video sharing app Viddy seems to be out the gate like a bullet and already has 26 million users. It was only in April that the app hit 6.5 million users so in less than a month it has added roughly 20 million users. The app is reportedly adding 500,000 users a day and looks [...] > read more

Wikipedia Appears On the First Page Of Google SERPs 46% Of The Time

Published on 2012-05-22 04:39:28

Any SEO expert will tell you that ranking on Google’s first page is not the easiest task, and even when you do achieve a top 10 ranking, you can’t get any decent amount of traffic unless you are ranking in the top 3. All the more reason why many SEO experts will be annoyed with [...] > read more

Apple’s Total Sales In 2011 Were $128 Billion

Published on 2012-05-21 13:04:54

Apple came awfully close the other day to having more money than the US government so it should shock no-one that total revenues for 2011 was $128 billion—with a capital B! To put those earnings into perspective, Xerox recently reported first quarter revenues of $5.5 billion and many people saw that as an impressive number. [...] > read more

Just-Eat.com Raises $64 Million In Funding

Published on 2012-05-21 10:39:27

In Europe (especially the UK) having food delivered is pretty much a way of life. The ‘Takeaway’ as it is called in the UK is so popular that Just-Eat.com has made a name for itself fulfilling this nice desire for consuming food. The company which by no coincidence is based in the UK has just [...] > read more

Opera Surpasses 169 Million Users

Published on 2012-05-21 07:39:12

If any browser has carved out a niche for itself in the mobile browsing space, its Opera. Its mobile offering dubbed ‘Opera Mini’ now has over 169 million users. This take up among mobile users is a stark contrast to Opera presence on the desktop market where it can barely keep pace with the likes [...] > read more

Facebook Makes $9.51 Per User In Ad Revenue

Published on 2012-05-21 04:39:10

Mark Zuckerberg and his executives have been busy with their pre-IPO road show ahead of Facebook’s big launch to raise funds on the 18th of May. There has been mixed views on how Zuckerberg has handled the road shows but overall the reception has been pretty good. The road shows are all about enticing investors [...] > read more

HootSuite Raises $50 Million And Is Worth $500 Million

Published on 2012-05-20 10:39:07

There is a plethora of social media management tools on the market jostling for space and one of the prominent players is HootSuite. Known in most circles as a Twitter client, the management tool encompasses a large number of social networking platforms—all of which can be handled from a handy dashboard. HootSuite has been making [...] > read more

LinkedIn Acquires SlideShare for $119 Million

Published on 2012-05-20 07:39:05

Presentations are a big part of business and networking so LinkedIn’s acquisition of SlideShare comes as no real surprise. Since going public there has been a lot of expectation for LinkedIn to deliver solid results and many are calling the acquisition very good news for investors. The cost to acquire SlideShare rings in at a [...] > read more

Mark Zuckerberg Will Make Over $846 Million During IPO

Published on 2012-05-20 04:39:00

That Mark Zuckerberg has been sitting on a pot of gold has been obvious for quite some time. What wasn’t so obvious was how much that pot of gold is worth. Come May 18th we find out and many are predicting that on the very low side Zuckerberg could be worth at least $846 million. [...] > read more

WePay Gets $10 Million In Funding

Published on 2012-05-19 13:09:58

Merchants tired of getting burned by PayPal now have an alternative and an ally in the form of WePay, a service that promotes itself on the strength of being ‘anti-PayPal’. The company got a major boost recently with the securing of $10 in funding from Ignition Partners and existing investors, Highland Capital Partners and August [...] > read more

YouTube Launches Brandcast With $200 Million Ad Campaign

Published on 2012-05-19 10:09:52

The complete and utter commercialization of YouTube is here. Google is putting $200 million behind its latest offering which it is calling YouTube Brandcast. The talk surrounding the launch has been about premium content and as one writer put it; YouTube is looking to move away from “offering only a conglomeration of amateur videos and [...] > read more

Windows Has 500 Million Active Users

Published on 2012-05-19 07:09:51

Apple might be the new media and Wall Street darling, but arch rival Microsoft is no slouch among users. The software giant which is gearing up to release Windows 8, revealed some numbers about usage of its software applications suit dubbed Windows Live. There are an estimated 500 million users of the Windows Live suite [...] > read more

Buffer Hits 180,000 Users

Published on 2012-05-19 04:09:49

Buffer is a relatively new company and feature that allows people to manage their social media accounts in an easy, convenient way. “Buffer is designed for marketers and other folks who want to maintain an active social media presence without actually spending every second of their day on Facebook and Twitter. You can load the [...] > read more

Salesforce Acquires Text Editor Stypi

Published on 2012-05-18 13:04:57

We here at SiteTrail follow Salesforce.com very closely and in the last few months we’ve written a few stories about the company. Almost all of them has been about some acquisition of some kind and here we are again covering yet another acquisition. This time Salesforce has splashed out to acquire Stypi, a company that [...] > read more

Comcast Profit Rises By 30%

Published on 2012-05-18 10:04:57

America’s largest cable company just got a boost on news that profits are up 30%. The profits come as Comcast saw a massive uptake of its popular broadband service and the strong partnership that it formed with NBC Universal during the Super Bowl. Net income rose to $1.224 billion, up from the $934 million that [...] > read more

90% Of Wikipedia Editors Are Men

Published on 2012-05-18 07:04:56

Does Wikipedia have a bias towards male editors or is it that women don’t like editing? This is the question that many are asking with the revelation that more than 90% of all editors on Wikipedia of the testosterone-laden type. The figures come from a survey conducted by Wikipedia who asked 6,500 respondents to supply [...] > read more

Netflix CEO Makes $9.3 Million In Salary

Published on 2012-05-18 04:04:56

Netflix is a company that allow people to watch TV episodes and a variety of movies from the comfort of their home. It is businesses like Netflix (Redbox, Blockbuster boxes, etc) that have put the typical movie rental places out of business. No one rents movies from the local Movie Gallery, Blockbuster store, or places [...] > read more

Fiverr Raises $15 Million In Funding

Published on 2012-05-17 13:04:55

Fiverr is looking to expand its reach in the micro-services space and has just received another $15 million in funding. The round was led by Accel Partners and Bessemer Venture Partners and adds to the $5 million the company received at the start of its operations. Founded by Israeli entrepreneurs Shai Wininger and Micha Kaufman [...] > read more

Prezi Hits 10 Million Users

Published on 2012-05-17 07:04:54

Microsoft PowerPoint has long since been the standard for creating presentations that both engage and bore, but people have complained for years that PowerPoint tends to rest on the boring side. Which is why Prezi was created. The zooming presentation software allows for more dynamic presentations; objects and videos can be moved around the screen [...] > read more

Toys.xxx Domain Name Sold For $125,000

Published on 2012-05-17 04:04:53

Domain Name Journal weekly comes out with the most notable sales for a given week from the various domain name sites on the Internet. It reports the top sales along with other notable information and numbers. Some of the domain name companies it reports sales from are Go Daddy, Sedo, Afternic, ICM registry and many [...] > read more

ZocDoc Reaches 1.2 Million Patients Per Month

Published on 2012-05-16 13:04:35

If Google had seen the potential success of blending social media with healthcare it might not have discontinued its Google Health product the other day. But c’est la vie as they say, the benefits of the fusion is now falling to companies like ZocDoc. The social media themed healthcare service allows patients to search via [...] > read more

PayPal Here Is Used By Over 200,000 Merchants

Published on 2012-05-16 10:04:34

The mobile payments processing space is looking pretty interesting now that PayPal has entered the fray. Its offering is dubbed ‘PayPal Here’ and was launched back in March of this year to compete with runaway favorite, Square. PayPal Here is no different from Square and lets small businesses handle mobile payments via Android and iOS [...] > read more

Twitter Wants To Go From 140 Million Users To 2 Billion

Published on 2012-05-16 07:04:33

Tweeting has become very ubiquitous in our lives but for some reason Twitter can’t seem to break out of its numbers slump. A couple months back there was talk that Twitter would break 500 million users but that prediction fell flat on its face. We now know that Twitter really has around 140 million active [...] > read more

DirectCremation.com Domain Name Sold For $20,000

Published on 2012-05-16 04:04:31

Sedo.com is a successful and popular domain name selling company. They sell domain names of various price ranges from a few hundred, or thousand dollars, to big 6 figure domain names. These are sold to various companies, large and small, and the individual alike. These sales also take place internationally. Sedo recently announced its sales [...] > read more

4.5 Billion Spam Text Messages Are Sent Every Year

Published on 2012-05-15 13:58:17

There has never been a more lucrative time for spammers like now and it seems the mobile phone is the new cash cow. According to new figures from a Bloomberg report and spam expert Richi Jennings, text message spam is the fastest growing sector among spammers and increased 45% in 2011 to a staggering 4.5 [...] > read more

SEOmoz Gets $18 Million In Funding

Published on 2012-05-15 10:58:17

Google just released its latest search engine update recently dubbed ‘Penguin’ and this has left many webmasters holding their heads. Make no mistake about it, SEO is going to become more and more important—not less as some people like to predict. This of course means that SEO oriented companies will be in high demand, hence [...] > read more

20% Of U.S. Adults Are Not Online

Published on 2012-05-15 04:58:16

In this day and age, we are being taken over by technology; from not just the internet but having it at our fingertips at all times through the use of laptops, smart phones, iPads, etc. Social media sites are the top sites on the world wide web and people plan their life around these new [...] > read more

Pinterest’s Facebook App Is Used By 8.3 Million Users

Published on 2012-05-14 13:57:51

One of the most successful social media growth stories in in the last few years has been Pinterest and like other platforms before it, the secret to growth has hinged heavily on well it plays with Facebook. Pinterest is of course a social/virtual pinboard, but it relies heavily on Facebook to get people talking and [...] > read more

Facebook Now Has 901 Million Users

Published on 2012-05-14 10:57:50

Facebook makes its debut on the NASDAQ in a few weeks and the search giant is busy enticing potential investors with new numbers on its performance. Facebook has filed not one, or two S-1 filings with the SEC but four! The fourth and latest filing reveals that the company now has over 901 million active [...] > read more

Andreessen Horowitz Made $78 Million From Instagram Investment

Published on 2012-05-14 07:57:49

How often do you see an investment company putting in $250,000 and taking out $78,000,000? Your answer might just be “not every day”, and you know what? You would be spot on! But that is precisely what Andreessen Horowitz (HW), the tech VC was able to do with its investment in Instagram. The $1 billion [...] > read more

Film.tv, Filme.tv, Filmy.tv Sold For $65,000

Published on 2012-05-14 04:57:48

The domain name selling companies, Sedo and Afternic, are both very popular and successful domain name selling businesses. They are always being noted for top sales during their weekly sales reports and often sell notable domain names at 5 and 6 figure amounts, though they also offer domain names at more affordable prices to meet [...] > read more

AdWords Hands Out $50 Million In Free Advertising For Video Ads

Published on 2012-05-13 13:57:41

Google is looking to attract customers for its latest advertising product dubbed AdWords for video. As is the tactic these days, Google is offering advertising credits to businesses that sign up and use the service and reports are that a whopping $50 million worth of ad credits are up for grabs. An official releases from [...] > read more

Facebook Buys 650 Patents For $550 Million From Microsoft

Published on 2012-05-13 10:57:41

Facebook spent $1 billion to acquire Instagram and now it has slashed out another $550 million—this time for patents. The social networking giant has inked a deal that will see Microsoft transfer 650 of the 925 patents it [Microsoft] acquired from AOL just last month. The deal seems to have a lot more than just [...] > read more

Xerox Generated $5.5 Billion In Revenue In Q1

Published on 2012-05-13 07:57:40

Big-dollar revenues are not unheard of in the tech sector, but $5.5 billion in the first quarter is not something you hear about often. This is how much Xerox made in the first quarter of 2012 and it has certainly got people talking. The talk is as much about the $5.5 billion as it is [...] > read more

GameGlobe.com Domain Name Sold For $50,000

Published on 2012-05-13 04:57:38

Sedo.com is a very popular and successful domain name selling company. Recently they released their sales report for the week ending April 23rd and their total sales amount was around $1.5 million, so no doubt a great sales week for the company. The top domain name sale was GameGlobe.com which sold for $50,000. Below is [...] > read more

Over 50% Of People Learn About Breaking News Via Social Media

Published on 2012-05-12 13:23:28

The TV, Newspaper and the Radio have been faithful carriers of news for as long as we’ve been digesting news, but the tide is changing and these three mediums have been taking a hammering from social media and the online information apparatus that is the internet. Today more than 50% of people rely on social [...] > read more

YouTube Users Upload 1 Hour Of Video Every Second

Published on 2012-05-12 10:23:27

YouTube turned 7 recently and it’s hard to believe just what has transpired in those years—from the uploading of the first video to the blockbuster acquisition by Google, YouTube has become a fixture as much as any other online social phenomenon in the last 10 years. Today the amount video uploaded on YouTube is truly [...] > read more

Alibaba.com Generated $53.8 Million In Profit Q1 2012

Published on 2012-05-12 07:23:23

Yahoo bought Alibaba.com a few years ago and many said at the time it was a bad move. Today however, Alibaba looks to be the only thing in Yahoo’s portfolio that is able to justify its existence. The company is reporting Q1 2012 profits of $53.8 million, a figure which follows on the back of [...] > read more

38DD.com Domain Name Sold For $500,000

Published on 2012-05-12 04:23:20

There are various domain name-selling companies on the Internet today. Companies such as these bring in a lot of revenue and are very successful due to the popularity of doing business online. Just as there are many different domain name-selling companies to choose from when looking into purchasing a domain name, there are thousands of [...] > read more

Intuit Acquires Demandforce For $423.5 Million

Published on 2012-05-11 13:23:18

Business software giant Intuit has just splashed out $423.5 million to acquire Software as a Service (SaaS) company Demandforce. The blockbuster acquisition comes in the wake of other high-profile purchases like Facebook’s acquisition of Instagram for $1 billion and the lesser purchase of Archive.com for $100 million by Ancestry.com. All this of course leads to [...] > read more

Google Translate Is Used By 200 Million Users Every Month

Published on 2012-05-11 10:23:17

No other company online does “free” like Google and for every paid service, the tech giant uses its leverage to offer powerful and functional alternatives. One such alternative is Google Translate, a service that lets users translate from one language to virtually every other kind of language on multiple platforms and environments. Now Google is [...] > read more

StumbleUpon Hits 25 Million Registered Users

Published on 2012-05-11 07:23:16

StumbleUpon seems to have stumbled to its feet with news that the social discovery site is now 25 million registered users strong. The company was bought by eBay you might remember back in 2009, but was eventually let loose under its own devices. Since then there has been a mix bag of results, but with [...] > read more

GreenJuice.com Domain Name Sold For $35,000

Published on 2012-05-11 04:23:15

Afternic is a successful domain name selling company and recently they reported their weekly sales report for the week ending April 22nd. Once again this weeks sales for the company resulted in over $1 million in total sales, so another great sales week for Afternic. The top sales for the week were GreenJuice.com which led [...] > read more

Ancestry.com Acquires Archives.com For $100 Million

Published on 2012-05-10 13:20:21

Ancestry.com has established itself as the front runner among genealogy websites and over the years has done everything from telling you about your great granddad to predicting the growth of users on Google+. Now we can add $100 million acquisition to the list of achievements; that is what Ancestry.com has splashed out to acquire Archives.com. [...] > read more

Automattic, Makers Of WordPress, Will Generate $45 Million In Revenue

Published on 2012-05-10 10:20:20

WordPress has been in the tech news of late for some big numbers regarding its usage and spread among website developers, but very little has been revealed about the financials of the company until now. The blogging platform as you may know is run by Automattic, which in a nutshell is the for-profit engine behind [...] > read more

Apple iTunes Has 600,000 Apps

Published on 2012-05-10 07:20:20

Before Google started to assault the market with Android, Apple’s iTunes was the spot; in fact, it was the one place that made by buying music cool again. The Apple iTunes store has evolved and now sells a lot more than MP3s. Users can get everything from music to Apps and the latter is booming. [...] > read more

Hot.net Domain Name Sold For $75,000

Published on 2012-05-10 04:20:19

Apple iCloud Hits 125 Million Users

Published on 2012-05-09 13:20:01

When Apple entered the cloud storage fray with the iCloud service, many scoffed at the move and predicted that it wouldn’t take hold, but how wrong could they be? Today the iCloud service is growing at a rapid rate and according to an announcement by Apple CFO Peter Oppenheimer; the service now has over 125 [...] > read more

Apple Sold 35.1 Million iPhones & 11.8 Million iPads In Q2 2012

Published on 2012-05-09 10:20:00

Apple seems to be incapable of doing wrong and in keeping with this positive trend, the company announced record sales for its flagship iPhone and iPad products. According to Apple, it sold 35.1 million iPhones in its second fiscal quarter and over 11.8 million iPads. Both numbers were slightly off by analyst estimates but in [...] > read more

Facebook Generated $1.05 Billion In Revenue And $205 Million In Profit In Q1

Published on 2012-05-09 07:19:59

The 17th of May is the date Facebook goes nova with its $100 billion IPO and the company has been busy the last few weeks acquiring and revealing the state of affairs for the social networking platform. The company which was founded by Mark Zuckerberg released a fresh S-1 filing recently detailing revenues and other [...] > read more

WirelessPhones.com Domain Name Sold For $70,000

Published on 2012-05-09 04:19:58

Afternic is a very popular and successful domain name selling company that sells a variety of domain names on a weekly basis in a wide price range and to a variety of different kinds of businesses and people. For their weekly sales report during the week that ended April 15th, the domain name WirelessPhones.com led [...] > read more

Google Drive Gives Out 5GB Of Free Storage

Published on 2012-05-08 13:14:09

Just when you thought the cloud storage space couldn’t get any more crowded, Google swoops in and launches its own service. Say hello to Google Drive, the search giant’s answer to Dropbox and Box.com. The service is fresh and so far it looks like test driving requires some sort of invite or at least the [...] > read more

Zynga Generated 15% Of Facebook’s Revenue In Q1

Published on 2012-05-08 10:14:08

The relationship between Zynga and Facebook is truly symbiotic; the two platforms rely heavily on each other in order to make money. It therefore comes as no surprise to hear that Zynga generated over 15% if Facebook’s revenues in Q1 of 2012. The revenue is tied to either advertising or payments directly linked to Zynga [...] > read more

Netflix Generated $870 Million In Revenue In Q1

Published on 2012-05-08 07:14:08

Things have been bitter sweet for Netflix in the past year or so and its latest set of earnings results have lived up to that trend precisely. The streaming movie and DVD rental company was expected to make losses of $0.27 per share on revenues of $866 million for the first quarter of 2012, but [...] > read more

20% Of Americans Still Don’t Use The Internet

Published on 2012-05-08 04:13:39

It is not surprising to hear that the amount of internet users has drastically increases over the last decade, or even 2 decades ago. Virtually everything can be done nowadays on the internet; from paying bills, car insurance, communication, work, school, entertainment, and the list goes on and on and on…What is more abnormal these [...] > read more

Schoology Raises $6 Million To Compete Against Blackboard & Moodle

Published on 2012-05-07 13:13:38

Technology is now well and truly in our schools and learning management company, Schoology, is gunning to be one of the top names in the space. The company announced recently that it had raised $6 million in Series B funding to help the company take on the two biggest players in the market, Blackboard and [...] > read more

Twitter Acquires Social Analytics Company Hotspots.io

Published on 2012-05-07 10:13:36

Social media is a now becoming a complex mix of interaction among platforms, technologies and environments and so gathering the type of intelligence needed to either grow a social media presence or invest in cross-market advertising is getting very difficult indeed. This is why the acquisition of Hotspots.io by Twitter is being seen as key [...] > read more

Groupon Acquires Ditto.me

Published on 2012-05-07 07:13:36

Groupon doesn’t make the news that often these days but the daily deals giant is back with news that it has acquired social recommendation app, Ditto.me. Ditto is essentially a mobile app that lets people make recommendations on the best places to shop and eat etc. Groupon of course is all about daily deals of [...] > read more

Mp3mixx.com Website Sold For $250,000

Published on 2012-05-07 04:13:35

The domain name selling company Flippa recently had a big sale on their site. The domain name Mp3mixx.com sold through the site for a quarter of a million dollars! The site obviously sells music downloads and it has been around for about 4 years. Mp3mixx.com apparently turns over $50,000 each month and brings in $20,000 [...] > read more

65% Of Adult Internet Users Are At Least On One Social Network

Published on 2012-05-06 13:13:31

Social networking and the profits to be had from the activity is very much a part of the tech discourse these days and for good reason. CPC and CPM rates are up and platforms like Facebook and Twitter seem to be basking in the profits. Now come new reports that adults (the people with all [...] > read more

WordPress Powers 25% Of All Websites

Published on 2012-05-06 10:13:31

“What competition?” That must certainly be the mantra inside the halls of WordPress with all this talk of Tumblr being a credible threat to the world’s most popular CMS. WordPress is without a doubt the big dog and it holds that position based on merit, not least because it is extremely customizable; has a host [...] > read more

Electronic Arts Will Lay Off Up To 1000 Employees

Published on 2012-05-06 07:13:29

The tech sector is a very perplexing beast at times. On the one hand, there are many companies in the space seeing huge profits, while on the other, many are streamlining and even downsizing. In the latter regard, recent weeks have seen Yahoo takes steps to cut jobs and it looks like popular games maker [...] > read more

Jackpot.com Domain Name Sold For $500,000

Published on 2012-05-06 04:13:27

Recently on Moniker, there was a very big sale worthy of mention. The domain name had been listed in multiple auctions through Moniker, however it wasn’t until the most recent auction at Domain Fest that the domain name finally sold. Both the buyer and seller of the domain name “Jackpot.com”, really did hit the jackpot [...] > read more

Yahoo’s Net Earnings Up 28%

Published on 2012-05-05 13:10:14

Yahoo is showing some signs of life yet. The search and media giant released its Q1 results for 2012 and by all accounts the company is not doing as bad as many on Wall Street had predicted. First quarter GAAP revenue was $1.22 billion, and although this amount was only a modest 1% increase on [...] > read more

Facebook Ads Booming With CPC Up 23% & CPM Up 15%

Published on 2012-05-05 10:09:58

With Facebook’s IPO imminent, news that the cost for advertising on its platform is up will be good news for potential investors and Wall Street. This of course is not so good news for advertisers, but let’s look at the numbers. According to the latest data on Facebook ads CPC and CPOM rates, there has [...] > read more

Tinychat Hits 20 Million Users

Published on 2012-05-05 07:09:57

Video chat service Tinychat is finally making strides and is now looking like a credible player in the online video chat space. The service which was launched in 2009 struggled for several years to gain traction but of late has been showing stunning form. The platform which had about 1 million users last year has [...] > read more

GameGlobe.com Domain Name Sold For $50,000

Published on 2012-05-05 04:09:54

There are a variety of businesses that sell domain names to different companies and individuals seeking to move their business to the world wide web for advertisement purposes, or to keep up with the times, etc. No matter the reason, it is a wise business decision to purchase a domain name for a company since [...] > read more

Hulu Plus Now Has 2 Million Paying Users

Published on 2012-05-04 13:03:36

Hulu took itself off the ‘for sale’ block several months ago and since then nothing but good things have happened for the streaming content provider. Reports are that Hulu has seen a 25% jump in subscribers in recent months and the company is set to make an official announcement to that effect in the coming [...] > read more

Threadflip Raises $1.6 Million In Funding

Published on 2012-05-04 10:03:13

If you have any items of unwanted clothing lying around you may have a market and a platform for selling them. Enter Threadflip, a start-up which enters the space similar to sites like 99dresses.com and Copius both of whom have been making strides in the space. Threadflip focuses on the higher end market for clothing [...] > read more

Square Now Worth $4 Billion

Published on 2012-05-04 07:03:12

The rumor mill is busy again with talk of mobile payments platform Square, seeking another big round of investment. Square is run by Jack Dorsey (yes the Twitter guy) and so far it has raised over $100 million and it looks like Dorsey is hungry for more. Reports are that Dorsey and Square’s COO Keith [...] > read more

Zuke.com Domain Name Sold For $40,000

Published on 2012-05-04 04:03:11

187 Million Women Are Currently Starting Or Running Businesses

Published on 2012-05-03 13:03:10

Women’s rights, especially in the workplace, are a hotly debated topic, and even presidential hopefuls are using the issue as a platform. But the numbers are what really tell the tale and a new study from the University of North Carolina’s online MBA program has helped to shed some light into the progress or lack [...] > read more

Foursquare Surpasses 20 Million Users & 2 Billion Checkins

Published on 2012-05-03 10:03:10

Location-based service Foursquare is making huge strides and has now successfully surpassed the 20 million user mark. The landmark day was dubbed 4sqDay by Foursquare’s legion of users, and by the look of things this milestone may be eclipsed before the year is out. That’s because it was only in June of last year that [...] > read more

Chartbeat Gets $9.5 Million In Funding

Published on 2012-05-03 07:03:07

Real-time analytics is becoming big business as the scale on online activity increases and businesses look to tap into multiple search and social media traffic sources. This has caused many players to up their game in the marketplace and one such player is Chartbeat, a start-up which announced recently that it managed to raise $9.5 [...] > read more

AFW.com Domain Name Sold For $125,000

Published on 2012-05-03 04:02:47

Recently on GoDaddy.com the domain name AFW.com sold for $125,000. This was one of the company’s top sales for the month, and one of the few 6 figure domain names that were sold. Come to find out the AFW will stand for American Furniture Warehouse: “American Furniture Warehouse is known to have the largest selection [...] > read more

Google Fined $25,000 By FCC

Published on 2012-05-02 13:02:45

Google is no stranger to controversy and regulatory fines so I can’t imagine the search giant quaking in its boots over the latest proposed fine to come its way. Google apparently (whoops, I meant allegedly) impeded federal investigations back in 2010 when the US government attempted to look into its gathering of data for Google [...] > read more

98% Of People Send Work-Related Emails Over Nights & Weekends

Published on 2012-05-02 10:02:43

Email was supposed to make things easier for communication and to a large extent it has done that. But it has also had some unintended consequences such as killing our collective leisure time. A recent study looked at the impact of email and its ubiquity on our lives. It was conducted by ad agency Gyro [...] > read more

Path Raises $40 Million In Funding And Worth $250 Million

Published on 2012-05-02 07:02:43

If you prefer your social networking to involve only the people you know and trust then Path social network might just be up your alley. Launched in 2010, the platform lets users share photos, videos and location data with people that are considered ‘very close’. According to the platforms founder and CEO, Dave Morin, the [...] > read more

GoDaddy Sells About 40,000 Aftermarket Domains Every Month

Published on 2012-05-02 04:02:41

GoDaddy is a well known and successful domain name selling company that has made a good reputation for itself due to selling domain names at affordable prices and reaching a large diverse customer base. GoDaddy probably sounds familiar to many or at least their logo does since they do a lot of advertising both through [...] > read more

Single Wikipedia User Made 1 Million Edits

Published on 2012-05-01 13:57:34

Former pizza delivery guy and self-confessed radical Christian Justin Knapp is no ordinary guy—at least not in the world of online editing. On April 18, Knapp became the very first person to surpass 1 million edits on Wikipedia. The only thing is Jimmy Wales (founder and ever-present donation hog) didn’t do much beyond making a [...] > read more

Ning Discovered Security Hole That Compromised 100 Million Accounts

Published on 2012-05-01 10:57:34

Security breaches are becoming more and more prevalent these days and the latest to suffer at the hands of hackers is DIY social network Ning. The platform which has over 90,000 networks going and over 100 million accounts suffered a major security breach by cookie-injection that left 100 million users accounts exposed. What’s fascinating about [...] > read more

BranchOut Surpasses 25 Million Users

Published on 2012-05-01 07:57:33

The professional social networking space is heating up and Linkedin may soon have to start watching its heels. Just a few stories back we covered Paris based Viadeo, a professional social network with over 35 million users. And today we are covering Branchout, another offering which according to its CEO and founder Rick Marini, the [...] > read more

Acronyms.com Domain Name Sold For $60,000

Published on 2012-05-01 04:57:33

The Domain Name Journal Weekly comes out with weekly sales reports from the top domain name selling companies that include the top sales for the week, interesting news on domain names, poor sales for the week, and just keeps those in this domain name business up to date. This write up is about the week [...] > read more

Rover.com Raises $3.4 Million In Funding

Published on 2012-04-30 13:57:32

Airbnb is the alternative to staying in hotels, and a Seattle based company is looking to provide the same type of service for dog owners looking for a pet-sitting service to look after their beloved pooches when they go away from home. Aptly named Rover.com, the company led by CEO Aaron Easterly is looking to [...] > read more

Viadeo Raises $32 Million In Funding

Published on 2012-04-30 10:57:32

There’s LinkedIn and you’ve probably heard about Branchout, but have you heard of Viadeo? All three are professional social networks and Viadeo is now looking to become a household name much LinkedIn. Based in Paris, France, the platform has a user base of 35 million users and attracts people largely from Europe. The company is [...] > read more

Google Runs 20,000 Search Experiments A Year

Published on 2012-04-30 07:57:31

Google is now notorious among SEO enthusiasts for its regular search algorithm updates. They probably won’t be too thrilled to hear then that Google runs around 20,000 search experiments each year. The figure was revealed by Matt Cutts (Google’s search guy) at a Webmaster conference in Tokyo. According to Cutts, these experiments range from the [...] > read more

AB.org Domain Name Sold For $12,000

Published on 2012-04-30 04:57:30

Spotify Hits $887 Million In Revenue

Published on 2012-04-29 13:57:06

Spotify looks set to become a $1 billion+ company a year in terms of revenue having just recorded $887 million in sales for the first quarter of 2012. The figure was divulged during a recent interview given by CEO, Daniel Ek and has set the tech space abuzz. No-one expected Spotify to make this much [...] > read more

Instagram Hits 40 Million Users

Published on 2012-04-29 10:57:05

It looks like Facebook’s $1 billion punt on Instagram wasn’t such a bad idea after all. Since the acquisition the App has seen a record increase in user and is now standing at a whopping 40 million users (and counting). In the 10 days since Facebook bought Instagram the App has grown by over 1 [...] > read more

Google Analytics Has Over 10 Million Users

Published on 2012-04-29 07:57:02

There are lots of free and paid tools online that help webmasters and business owners track their site metrics. One of the best free alternative is Google Analytics, a service which it is now being revealed is used by over 10 million people. The not-so-small detail was revealed at a recent earnings call during which [...] > read more

In-Motion.com Domain Name Sold For $30,000

Published on 2012-04-29 04:57:01

The domain name company Sedo is a very successful and popular domain name selling company and one of the best around today. They are known for selling some high dollar, impressive domain names but they also offer domain names at affordable prices. Recently on Sedo.com the domain name In-motion.com was sold for $30,000, a whopping [...] > read more

38% Of Kids Using Facebook Are Younger Than 12

Published on 2012-04-28 13:46:50

The problem of policing children with respects to social networks and their age restricted limits is a difficult one. Policing even seems too strong a word, but as parent, my child’s safety online has to be taken seriously—so I suppose the term applies. More and more researchers are finding that children that are underage are [...] > read more

WordPress Now Powers Over 73 Million Blogs

Published on 2012-04-28 10:46:49

All this talk about Tumblr killing off WordPress seems like just that—talk. Not only is WordPress still dominating the blog hosting space, it seems to increasing the rate at which it grows. The popular CMS now powers over 73 million blogs and counting, and has a 22 million blogs lead on Tumblr, its nearest competitor. [...] > read more

Google+ Surpasses 170 Million Users

Published on 2012-04-28 07:46:48

Google+ is proving to be no slouch and the social network tipped to be a Facebook killer is now more than 170 million users strong. To mark the new milestone Google seems to have done a complete revamp of the platform. Users might very well think that they are on a different platform because the [...] > read more

JustinTV.com Domain Name Sold For $32,500

Published on 2012-04-28 04:46:47

The domain names JustinTv.com just recently sold on Ebay for the whopping 5 figure amount of #32,500! The seller of the domain name certainly did not have much trouble selling this domain name.The owner said in his ebay listing that his name was Justin and that he registered the domain name in 1999. He also [...] > read more

Skype Hits 40 Million Concurrent Users

Published on 2012-04-27 13:46:46

It looks like the acquisition of Skype by Microsoft has produced the Midas effect, because since the $8.5 billion purchase, Skype has been breaking record after record. Last February Skype stunned the tech world by announcing a whopping 32 million concurrent users. That announcement was a big deal, so you can imagine the fanfare that [...] > read more

We Spend 35 Billion Hours On The Internet Every Month

Published on 2012-04-27 10:46:46

The internet has become such a huge part of our collective lives that we all at points forget just how addictive and potentially dangerous it can be. A new study into the effects of excessive internet use is shedding light on a few of the things that we should be mindful of as we log [...] > read more

Animoto Now Has 4 Million Users

Published on 2012-04-27 07:46:44

Online video has started to dominate the scene and early player to the game, Animoto, looks poised to capitalize on the growing need for great videos. The company which started out a few years ago offering free and paid video-creation services, now has 4 million users and a new addition to its board. Brad Garlinghouse, [...] > read more

CardReview.com Domain Name Sold For $4963

Published on 2012-04-27 04:46:21

On the recent sales day of April 5th, 2012 there were many domain names sold through GoDaddy.com. This was no doubt a good sales day for them. Even though there were not a lot of high dollar domain names sold, there were many sold for decent prices. The top domain name sold on April 5th [...] > read more

665 Million Tablets Will Be In Use By 2016

Published on 2012-04-26 13:46:19

The tablet is coming and by the time it arrives, we’ll have so many floating about that the PC won’t know what hit it. This is another way of painting Gartner’s prediction of the global market and sales of tablet computers by 2016. According to the tech research company, there will be over 665 million [...] > read more

Instagram CEO Kevin Systrom Just Made $400 Million

Published on 2012-04-26 10:46:18

How much can you make in Silicon Valley for just a couple years’ worth of work on a project? Try $400 million! That’s how much Kevin Systrom, CEO of Instagram made from the sale of the popular photo-sharing app to Facebook for the insane amount of $1 billion. Details of the massive payday come via [...] > read more

The New York Times Is Worth Less Than Instagram At $950 Million

Published on 2012-04-26 07:46:17

The New York Times (NYT) is more than just a newspaper, it’s an institution. It’s been delivering news for decades and as a going concern as being pretty profitable even though newspapers in general have seen decline in recent years. Contrast the NYT then with Instagram, a mobile photo-sharing app with over 12 million users [...] > read more

Frame.com Domain Name Sold For $148,000

Published on 2012-04-26 04:46:15

Below are the five letter domain names that have sold so far during the Quarter 1 of 2012. Their prices go from highest to lowest, all of them only have 5 letters in them, and they were sold from a variety of web sites during this 1st quarter… Frame.com $148,000 Smore.com $27,930 Calan.com $16,000 Acuto.com [...] > read more

Facebook Acquires Instagram For $1 Billion

Published on 2012-04-25 13:42:02

The purchase of Instagram by Facebook for $1 billion may have been a shock to many outside of tech circles, but insiders know that such a deal was part and parcel of the current acquisition trend. Zuckerberg broke the news of the acquisition via his Facebook Timeline and while many were shocked, the news sort [...] > read more

Amazon S3 Handles 650,000 Requests Per Second

Published on 2012-04-25 10:41:20

Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) is still the big dog at the top of the hill and a recent release from the company gave some insight about just how powerful the service still is among users. According to the release, S3 now stores over 905 billion objects. All told, those stored objects get accessed fairly [...] > read more

Google Play (Android Market) Now Has 400,000 Apps

Published on 2012-04-25 07:41:21

The Apps market is dominated by Apple; that much is sure. But that hasn’t stopped Google Android from making a strong push to being number one. So daring has been that push that the Android Apps market rebranded as Google Play, now has over 400,000 Apps in its repository. To put that in perspective, Apple’s [...] > read more

LiveDoc.com Domain Name Sold For $55,000

Published on 2012-04-25 04:41:20

Sedo is one of the most popular and successful domain names out there right now. They are always being noticed for the high dollar domain names that they sale, often in the 5 and 6 figure range. They do sell domain names at more affordable prices as well, but the large company deserves recognition for [...] > read more

AOL Sells 800 Patents To Microsoft For $1.1 Billion

Published on 2012-04-24 13:41:19

What do you do when you are struggling tech and media company that can’t seem to make enough money in your core business? Why you create a veritable digital garage sale of course, and this is exactly what AOL has done with some of its patents—800 to be exact. The once giant of Silicon Valley [...] > read more

Sony To Lay Off 10,000 Employees

Published on 2012-04-24 10:41:18

Yahoo is shedding a few thousand jobs at least and now another big tech company is looking to do the same. The tech giant is looking to cut a whopping 10,000 jobs or 6% of its global workforce. The cuts will occur mainly in the chemicals and small and midsize LCD operations but Sony is [...] > read more

5 Billion Users Will Be On The Internet By 2020

Published on 2012-04-24 07:41:15

The internet is growing at such an alarming rate that one wonders what the landscape or should I say ‘internet-scape’ is going to be like in the coming future. There’s lots of talk about the net being more of ‘who’ we are—scary stuff when you think about it, but that seems to be where things [...] > read more

Grindr Surpasses 3.5 Million Users

Published on 2012-04-24 04:40:57

So everyone has heard of online dating, seen the TV commercials, the web advertisements, and maybe even checked out a page for themselves. What a lot of people probably aren’t aware of is the online dating site called Grindr which is a dating site for all men. This is no ordinary online dating sight, apart [...] > read more

YouTube To Make $62 Million Per Exclusive Advertiser

Published on 2012-04-23 13:40:56

The commercialization of YouTube began the day it was acquired by Google; after all, if you spend lots of money on something, you sort of want to see some return at some point. Those commercial plans have come full circle with news that YouTube is rolling out channel sponsorship. According to reports, advertisers will be [...] > read more

20% Of Americans Read eBooks

Published on 2012-04-23 10:40:54

A recent research by Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project suggests that Americans are starting to read eBooks more. 1 in 5 of those surveyed answered ‘yes’ to their readership of eBooks and although this figure doesn’t reveal much about the uptake in reading of regular books, it is promising numbers for the [...] > read more

Google+ Reaches 61 Million Visits

Published on 2012-04-23 07:40:53

So Google+ is not a veritable ghost town after all—at least not by Experian Hitwise’s reckoning. The analytics company took a look at the traffic numbers for Google+ in March 2012 and found that the platform grew 27% and saw just over 61 million unique visits in the period. The growth of course is up [...] > read more

PhoneMarket.com Domain Name Sold For $180,000

Published on 2012-04-23 04:40:52

Sedo.com just reported their recent sales report for the week. Overall it was a good week for the company. During the course of the week there were a total of almost 1,000 domain names sold and brought the company a total of $1.9 million dollars, in one week alone! The domain name that led the [...] > read more

Pinterest Now The 3rd Most Popular Social Network Beating LinkedIn

Published on 2012-04-22 13:18:52

It’s not clear if it’s a case of raw female power or just the raw power of social networking nowadays, but whatever the reason, Pinterest has benefited nicely. The popular social networking site and virtual pinboard is now the third most popular social network—beating out LinkedIn in the process. The news comes from Experian Hitwise [...] > read more

Amazon S3 Now Stores 905 Billion Objects

Published on 2012-04-22 10:16:59

Before Dropbox became a household name, Amazon was ruling the cloud storage space with its Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) for many years; in fact, Amazon S3 is still one of the biggest players in the cloud storage space and has the numbers to prove it. The company’s latest data on the growth and performance [...] > read more

61% Of America Now Has WiFi

Published on 2012-04-22 07:16:58

WiFi networks have become ubiquitous in business and other organizational-type setups but that ubiquity has now started to spread to homes. A new look at the adoption of WiFi in American homes sought to put things into perspective. The study was conducted by Strategy Analytics, and puts the US pretty much in the pack of [...] > read more

BlogDesignBlog.com Domain Name Sold For $2,804

Published on 2012-04-22 04:16:56

Some domain names can be very expensive and some domain name selling companies only sell high dollar domain names. GoDaddy is perfect for people and businesses that have a budget because they sell affordable domain names and at the very least $1,000 is a relief to see after some of the 6 figure domain names [...] > read more

Apple Could Get 80% Tax Break For Building New Campus

Published on 2012-04-21 13:06:31

Apple is currently a media darling and it seems it is fast becoming a government darling too. The company who recently proposed to build a new campus in Austin, Texas is reportedly looking to get an 80% tax break in order to carry out the project. The tax break when approved by the Travis County [...] > read more

Change.org Reaches 10 Million Members

Published on 2012-04-21 10:06:30

It looks like Change.org has finally found its niche. The social network for non-profits has twisted and turned since coming on the scene back in 2007 and now boasts over 10 million members. It’s hard to tell if the popularity of Change.org is part of a wider upsurge in social and political awareness, but since [...] > read more

Android Now Has 50% Of The U.S. Market

Published on 2012-04-21 07:06:30

Apple is now the world’s largest company but you’d never tell that based on how fast Google’s own raft of offerings is growing—especially Android. The mobile OS now accounts for 50% of the US market and by the look of things, this will be trending up. According to data-mining an analytics company ComScore, Android topped [...] > read more

Jeu.tv Domain Name Sold For $50,000

Published on 2012-04-21 04:06:29

Joomla Hits 30 Million Downloads

Published on 2012-04-20 13:06:28

There has been lots of talk lately about the dominance of WordPress and the emergence of Tumblr, that few people have given Joomla a look-in. But Joomla is very much alive; so much so that it now counts over 30 million downloads. The platform as you may know is an open-source content management system (CMS) [...] > read more

Pandora Surpasses 51 Million Active Users

Published on 2012-04-20 10:06:28

Online radio platform Pandora is now starting to open up a bit in a bid to attract advertisers. This is of course not surprising since competitors like Spotify do this all the time, but still, this degree of openness on Pandora’s part is welcomed. The company recently gave insights as to number of users and [...] > read more

Yahoo Lays Off 2,000 More Employees

Published on 2012-04-20 07:06:27

The Yahoo layoffs are here. We wrote about these a few weeks ago after it was revealed that Yahoo’s new CEO, Scott Thompson was talking radical steps to make the company profitable again. Thompson had made it very clear in internal communications that “real change” is coming to the once darling of Silicon Valley. That [...] > read more

Pasko.com Domain Name Sold For $2,000

Published on 2012-04-20 04:06:26

People Tweeted 2,065,060 Times During March Madness

Published on 2012-04-19 13:06:04

It’s called “March Madness” for a reason, and Twitter and College basketball in America seems the perfect match for each other. The recently concluded national college championships gave us some insight into just how popular the games and teams were on Twitter. Email marketing provider ExactTarget took the time to delve into the numbers and [...] > read more

Attachments.me Raises $2 Million In Funding

Published on 2012-04-19 10:06:03

Attachments are sometimes not the easiest things to keep track of, especially in web-based email clients like Gmail. Thankfully though, there’s always an entrepreneurs or in this case two entrepreneurs who are looking to save the day. I am talking of course of Benjamin Coe and Jesse Miller, who back in 2011 started Attachments.me, a [...] > read more

Flirting Social Networking Site Skout Raises $22 Million

Published on 2012-04-19 07:06:01

“Meet new people, flirt and have fun”, so goes the welcome message on social networking site Skout.com. The site which is essentially a social discovery engine and App lets you flirt with people who are in your locale. Skout didn’t start down the dating path though; its early incarnation was somewhat like a Foursquare but [...] > read more

FlashCloud.com Domain Name Sold For $7,500

Published on 2012-04-19 04:05:56

98% Of New iPad Users Are Satisfied

Published on 2012-04-18 13:00:47

It looks like Apple Inc. gets to have its cake and eat it too—at least for now. The latest iPad as you know is out and so far the reception and satisfaction has been nothing less than extraordinary. A new survey from research company, ChangeWave, has revealed that 98% of the people who bought the [...] > read more

Groupon Stocks Drop 12% While Customers Demand Refunds

Published on 2012-04-18 10:00:43

Groupon and the daily deals business model goes on a see saw ride every few months it seems. This time round the company is suffering with stock price falls in wake of customers increasing their complaints and asking for refunds. Wall Street didn’t like news of declining 4th quarter revenues for Groupon and this set [...] > read more

91% Of Children Prefer To Use Google

Published on 2012-04-18 07:00:42

There was a time when kids relied heavily on their parents for information. “What’s the tallest mountain in the world, dad?” Parents like me used to take pride in giving the answer. But now all that is changing; children are turning more and more to search engines (Google specifically) for information. Indeed the term ‘Google [...] > read more

eDiscovery.com Domain Name Sold For $100,000

Published on 2012-04-18 04:00:41

According to the DN Journal, the domain that topped the sales chart recently for the week was eDiscovery.com and it sold for $100,000. It was sold through Domain Advisor. There was actually a tie for the top selling domain name, and this one was sold through Sedo. The domain name that also sold for $100,000 [...] > read more

Hacker May Have Access To 1.5 Million Credit Card Numbers

Published on 2012-04-17 13:00:27

How safe is your credit card? Well let’s just say it’s only safe if it’s not one of the 1.5 million credit card numbers that may be in the hands of hackers. A recent hacking attack on payment processor Global Payments may have compromised over 1.5 million numbers. The breach is so severe that the [...] > read more

There Are 54.8 Million Tablet Users In U.S.

Published on 2012-04-17 10:00:25

Tablet sales are booming and so too are the retail sales that the millions of tablet owners are generating. A recent survey by Milo.com expounded on the numbers and the phenomenon behind the surge in tablet sales and subsequent use. According to the study there are over 54.8 million tablet users in the US alone. [...] > read more

Tumblr Surpasses 20 Billion Total Posts

Published on 2012-04-17 07:00:24

Last November Tumblr shattered expectations by surpassing the 12 billion posts mark—that was barely 6 months ago and Tumblr is at it again. This time the fast-growing blogging platform has surpassed the 20 billion posts mark. The achievement almost went beyond notice and even the folks at Tumblr didn’t make too much noise about it. [...] > read more

Yammer Offers Ex-Yahoo Employees $25,000 Signing Bonus

Published on 2012-04-17 04:00:23

Yahoo is a popular web site on the Internet that offers many services for the sites members and visitors. They have a search engine, music features, celeb news, and is somewhat of a social media site as well as a e-mail server. The list could go on and on of what all Yahoo has to [...] > read more

200 Billion Spam Emails Are Sent Every Day

Published on 2012-04-16 13:37:03

You probably don’t need a fancy infographic or an extensive study to prove the existence of spam—heaven knows all our inboxes are solid proof of that. But just in case you wanted to get into the scale of email spam these days, the fine folks over at Neolane.com has crunched a few numbers—just or our [...] > read more

TweetTV Gets $750,000 In Funding

Published on 2012-04-16 10:57:44

Twitter is popular, so too is TV and invariably what happens on one, gets mentioned on the other. This information and conversation flow is the foundation of TweetTV, a service that categorizes and enhances TV-related conversations that take place on the world’s biggest micro-blogging platform. The company has just raised $750,000 in funding from angel [...] > read more

U.S. Search Market Up By 68% Since 2008

Published on 2012-04-16 07:57:43

Americans love to search, so much so that since 2008 the overall US search market has grown 68%. Capitalizing on that is of course Google, the world’s most popular search engine. A recent look into the numbers by online number-cruncher Statista offered some interesting facts about the growth of search and the players who would [...] > read more

StreetFeed.com Domain Name Sold For $4,008

Published on 2012-04-16 04:57:41

Recently on Go Daddy.com the domain name StreetFeed.com sold for over $4,000. The domain name was only registered for 6 years before it sold on Go Daddy. On the auction day, March 29th, 2012, there were 6 bidders that made a total of 260 bids! Talk about a lot of bids for one domain name, [...] > read more

85% Of Adults Use The Internet For Email While 62% Use It For Social Networking

Published on 2012-04-15 13:54:11

It looks like Email isn’t dead after all. A new survey conducted by Ipsos found that not only is email well and truly alive, it is still the reason most adults (at least) go onto the web. Ipsos questioned 19,216 adults in 24 countries for the study and found that 85% of all adults who [...] > read more

More Than 1 Billion People Use PDF Viewers

Published on 2012-04-15 10:54:09

Who doesn’t love the PDF document format; it is one of the most dynamic and flexible ways to share documents and provides a raft of features that make our digital lives that much easy to bundle and send to our friends and colleagues on the other side of the digital divide. A little study conducted [...] > read more

Yahoo Terminates Meme Service

Published on 2012-04-15 07:54:06

Yahoo like Google dabbles from time to time and has several services that march in tune with what’s popular. And like Google, Yahoo from time to time has to discontinue a service for a variety of reasons. The latest casualty is Yahoo’s Meme service which was launched in back in August 2009. The micro-blogging service [...] > read more

Dour.com Domain Name Sold For $3,805

Published on 2012-04-15 04:54:02

Facebook Wants To Dismiss 50% Ownership Lawsuit

Published on 2012-04-14 13:47:32

Facebook will be looking to turn on the charm with investors next month as it gets its $100 billion listing on the NASDAQ. But there is one problem—that of the pesky lawsuit filed by Paul Ceglia claiming 50% ownership of the company. That of course would mean that Ceglia owns $50 billion of what is [...] > read more

51% Of American Households Own At Least One Apple Product

Published on 2012-04-14 10:47:31

There was a time when Apple and its products were considered niche items—things that only cult-followers of the brand wanted. All that has changed; today Apple is a household brand and most people spend their time dreaming of when they will be able to pick up one of Apple’s latest products. A new survey has [...] > read more

Pinterest Spammer Makes $30,000 Per Month

Published on 2012-04-14 07:47:05

Pinterest is very hot right now so it comes as no surprise that marketers (some people call them spammers) are looking to cash in. One such marketer (spammer) is a 24 year old man called Steve who gave a recent interview to a popular tech site The Daily Dot. Steve claimed initially that he was [...] > read more

Amazon Acquires Kiva Systems For $775 Million

Published on 2012-04-14 04:47:03

Amazon.com is a web site for a very popular and successful business on the Internet. They sell all kinds of products for cheaper prices than one would be able to find elsewhere. Their sales include books, clothes, mobile devices & accessories, and the list goes on and on. This no doubt could be a complicated [...] > read more

Windows Phone Marketplace Surpasses 70,000 Apps

Published on 2012-04-13 13:47:02

When it comes to App stores, nobody does it quite like Apple, and so when App store success is measured, it is done on a completely different standard. Take Microsoft’s Windows Phone for example; it has just surpassed the 70,000 Apps mark. Now this is of course a milestone, but when you compare that to [...] > read more

MPAA Goes After Hotfile.com

Published on 2012-04-13 10:47:01

The spectacular takedown of Kimdotcom and his Megaupload.com Empire a few months ago signalled the start of what many feel is the end of liberal file sharing on the internet. Record companies, Hollywood and their front organizations like the MPAA have declared war. In the crosshairs presently is another filesharing website called Hotfile. The sites [...] > read more

ShoeDazzle Hits 10 Million Members

Published on 2012-04-13 07:46:59

The ShoeDazzle business model is simple; it lets women subscribe in return for regular updates on the latest trends and designs regarding shoes. These updates are curated by celebrities and some of Hollywood’s biggest stylists. The company has been growing rapidly over the past 12 months and subscribers jumped from 3 million all the way [...] > read more

Psoriasis.com Domain Name Sold For $350,000

Published on 2012-04-13 04:46:57

Woman Sues Apple For $1 Million After Colliding With Glass Door

Published on 2012-04-12 13:42:51

It doesn’t get any more American than Apple Pie or Apple, so the news that a 83 year old woman is suing Apple because she collided with a glass door in one of its store is not surprising at all. Evelyn Paswall, a 83 year old grandmother from Long Island wants $1 million as compensation [...] > read more

Only 20% Of The US Population Has Even Heard Of SEO

Published on 2012-04-12 10:42:50

If you are a SiteTrail reader, we are pretty confident that SEO is something you have at least a passing knowledge of—after all, most SiteTrail readers are up to speed like that. Not so for 80% of Americans though. A survey taken by Matt Cutts of Google recently, tried to gauge the amount of knowledge [...] > read more

Wikipedia Has Published 3,881,516 English Articles To Date

Published on 2012-04-12 07:42:30

The impact that Wikipedia had had on our lives is often not dissected well enough to appreciate. But when you really think about it, Wikipedia is as live-changing, culture-influencing as the web itself. Not only is it the number one source 99% of information seekers go to, it has helped to reshape how we go [...] > read more

Weights.com Domain Name Sold For $32,000

Published on 2012-04-12 04:42:28

Netflix Buys DVD.com Domain Name

Published on 2012-04-11 13:42:27

So Netflix has splashed out some cash on another domain only to leave analysts scratching their heads in bewilderment. The company recently bought DVD.com but according a company spokesperson, Netflix has no intention of using the domain as a standalone portal for the DVD-only section of its business. Apparently Netflix doesn’t want to create any [...] > read more

Wikia Gets 50 Million Unique Visitors Per Month

Published on 2012-04-11 10:42:26

We are so used to seeing Jimmy Wales as the face of non-profit Wikipedia that we could scarcely imagine that he heads up another business that is very much all about making money. I am talking of course about Wikia, Wales’ money-making version of Wikipedia and is sort of an umbrella company and website for [...] > read more

Google Makes $2 Billion Every Year From The iPhone

Published on 2012-04-11 07:42:25

You’d be forgiven for thinking that the title of this news story is completely wrong but it isn’t. Google has made more money from the iPhone than it has from its own OS (Android) since 2008. Now you may be wondering “how can this be?” Well, Oracle has you may already know sued Google for [...] > read more

Venturous.com Domain Name Sold For $2,560

Published on 2012-04-11 04:42:23

Fandango Accounted For 22% Of “Hunger Games” Ticket Sales

Published on 2012-04-10 13:37:31

The box office talk is all about Hunger Games and by the looks of things; its success is owed in large part to online ticket seller Fandango. According to a report, Fandango accounted for more 22% of all ticket sold in the opening weekend of the movie which grossed a whopping $155 in its first [...] > read more

Pinterest Received 16.2 Million Visitors In February

Published on 2012-04-10 10:37:31

You’ve probably heard by now about one of the fastest growing social sites to hit the web in the last 12 months. Pinterest had its beta launch in November 2011 and since then the site hasn’t looked back. Today the site is the 16th most popular website in the US and more than half of [...] > read more

Canada Reaches 10 Million Smartphone Users

Published on 2012-04-10 07:37:30

The US has the largest concentration of smartphone users in the world, but that position is now under threat—from Canada. A survey conducted by eMarketer found that Canada now has over 10 million smartphone users. And although this number is still small in proportion to Canada’s population size, eMarketer predicts that in a few years [...] > read more

End.com Domain Name Sold For $100,000

Published on 2012-04-10 04:37:30

Domain names can be pretty expensive, costing some companies 6 figure amounts, while others are more affordable and cost only a couple hundred dollars. However despite the cost, the domain name would eventually pay for itself if the company has a successful and growing business. The domain name wouldn’t just make the business that bought [...] > read more

Facebook Now Has 36.1 Million Visitors From Brazil

Published on 2012-04-09 13:37:29

Facebook’s growth to that coveted 1 billion active user mark is nearing, but most of the numbers that take it over that hump won’t come from the US. Facebook’s growth in the US is now on the decline as pretty much anyone who’s got an interest in the social network is already on it. Most [...] > read more

Microsoft Co-Founder Paul Allen Gives $300 Million to Brain Research

Published on 2012-04-09 10:37:29

Giving is part of the Microsoft culture so it comes as no surprise to hear that co-founder Paul Allen has given $300 million to help with brain research. The announcement was made by the Allen Institute who divulged that the money will help in creating brain observatories that will help map the brain’s circuitry of [...] > read more

Wikipedia Has 751,426 Contributors

Published on 2012-04-09 07:37:28

The Encyclopedia Britannica (EB) is dead! And Wikipedia and Microsoft Encarta are the murderous culprits. The once popular printed volume which offered knowledge at your fingertips has had to scale back through lagging sales and just a few weeks ago its publishers announced that they would be pulling it from print. So what happened? Paper [...] > read more

OnTime.com Domain Name Sold For $25,000

Published on 2012-04-09 04:37:27

CafePress Acquires Logo’d Softwear Inc. For $8.3 Million

Published on 2012-04-08 10:37:02

CafePress has been in the merchandising business for quite some time so it sort of makes sense that as a company it would be sitting on quite a bit of cash. Well how about $8.3 million worth of cash; that’s the amount the company has paid to acquire T-Shirt and merchandising competitor Logo’d Softwear Inc. [...] > read more

Vimeo Gets 70 Million Unique Visitors Per Month

Published on 2012-04-08 07:37:01

Fresh on the heels of unveiling a new look, popular video sharing website Vimeo is unveiling a new CEO. Taking over at the helm is industry vet and former executive of AOL and Yahoo, Kerry Trainor. Trainor will be filling the shoes left vacant by Dae Mellencamp, who despite vacating the CEO spot will stay [...] > read more

Social.org Domain Name Sold For $228,600

Published on 2012-04-08 04:37:00

Domain names can be pretty expensive, costing some companies 6 figure amounts, while others are more affordable and cost only a couple hundred dollars. However despite the cost, the domain name would eventually pay for itself if the company has a successful and growing business. It is obvious from the above sale that this certainly [...] > read more

Fab.com Hits 3 Million Members

Published on 2012-04-07 13:24:44

We here at SiteTrail have been charting the meteoric rise of Fab.com and if you’ve been reading along, you’d have noticed that the site is growing at breakneck speeds. Founder and CEO Jason Goldberg was speaking at a London Web Summit recently and revealed that the site now has over 3 million registered members (2.5 [...] > read more

Twitter Now Has 140 Million Users Who Send 340 Million Tweets Per Day

Published on 2012-04-07 10:24:44

Twitter is now 6! In the short years since the micro-blogging platform came on the scene, it has helped to redefine how we share information—even helping to fomenting a few revolutions around the world in the process. Founder Jack Dorsey was the first person to send what we now call a tweet, and so it [...] > read more

Zynga Acquires OMGPOP for $180 Million

Published on 2012-04-07 07:24:43

The good folks over at Zynga certainly don’t like to sit still and already on their second public offering. The company submitted a new S-1 filing with the SEC recently and outlined a few things dealing with shares and recent purchases that were made. According to the filing, Zynga paid $180 million for the recent [...] > read more

Pinterest Hits 103 Million Unique Visitors

Published on 2012-04-07 04:24:42

Pinterest is a relatively new web site that is really a conglomeration of different things. The general set up for a profile allows you to create different boards; for instance someone might have a “Quotes” board, a board for their kids, one for cool ideas, and one for recipes. They then are able to see [...] > read more

85% Of Customers Expect Businesses To Be Active In Social Media

Published on 2012-04-06 13:24:42

The Zeitgeist of our times is the emerging pre-eminence of online culture. Businesses especially have the task of navigating the changing attitudes and expectations of people who now expect everything to be done online. Driving this new trend is of course social media and the convergence between business efforts and consumer expectation is becoming more [...] > read more

Scribd Has 100 Million Users

Published on 2012-04-06 10:24:40

Popular document sharing platform Scribd now has over 100 million users with an estimated 90 million of those being active monthly users. But things aren’t well at Scribd. The company has been trying in the last few years to establish itself as a cross-platform entity but so far hasn’t been able to crack the code. [...] > read more

Apple Plans To Spend $45 Billion In The Next 3 Years

Published on 2012-04-06 07:24:21

Apple is now officially the world’s biggest company and this of course gives it certain luxuries—like a $10 billion share buyback and plans to spend another $45 billion in the next 3 years. The news came last week as Apple announced via an earnings call by new CEO, Tim Cook. Shareholders will also benefit because [...] > read more

FamilyHood.com Domain Name Sold For $7,505

Published on 2012-04-06 04:24:20

PeerIndex Raises $3 Million To Compete Against Klout

Published on 2012-04-05 13:24:19

These days social media has pretty much everything measured; including how popular you are (the industry term is ‘social influence’). Klout of course is one of those platforms that stand out as a top measurer of social influence but it now has some competition—funded competition to boot. PeerIndex is aiming to knock Klout.com off its [...] > read more

90% Of Pinterest Users Are Women

Published on 2012-04-05 10:24:17

Pinterest is by far the biggest social media phenomenon of 2012 and brands who either are reluctant to tap its potential or simply don’t know about it should take a good look. The popular home, arts & crafts and fashion social website is now home to millions of users, 90% of whom it is being [...] > read more

11% Of Social Network Users Have Posted Content They Regret

Published on 2012-04-05 07:24:16

The growing popularity of social media has influenced for good and for ill many of our social behaviors. But more than that, it has also exposed some of our weaknesses, especially when it comes to how we handle privacy. A recent study conducted by ZoneAlarm in collaboration with Pew Research Institute found than gender as [...] > read more

Dinnoz.com Domain Name Sold For $3,733

Published on 2012-04-05 04:24:15

GoDaddy is a successful domain name selling company that has made a good reputation for itself due to selling domain names at affordable prices and reaching a large diverse customer base. GoDaddy probably sounds familiar to many or at least their logo does since they do a lot of advertising both through TV commercials as [...] > read more

Apple Sells 3 Million iPads In 72 Hours

Published on 2012-04-04 13:19:14

If there was any doubt about just how well the new iPad would do among Apple’s raving fans, then all doubt has been erased. In the first 72 hours of launch, Apple sold a record breaking 3 million iPads. That’s a lot—especially given the hefty price tags attached to the popular tablet. Proof positive then [...] > read more

Jessica Alba Raises $27 Million For Her Startup Honest.com

Published on 2012-04-04 10:19:13

Nothing meshes well with beauty like honesty; and it also helps when you have a name like Jessica Alba. The Golden Globe nominated actress has just managed to secure $27 million in funding for her baby-products themed startup called Honest.com. Alba of course joins a growing list of young Hollywood elites who are no showing [...] > read more

Box.com Domain Name Sold For $1 Million

Published on 2012-04-04 07:19:13

When you are domainer or just a regular owner of a domain, it can be a big advantage when a big-name company is sitting on a version of your domain. This was the case with Box.com, which we are no discovering was bought by Box.net for around $1 million last year. At the time of [...] > read more

SlotCity.com Domain Name Sold For $56,000

Published on 2012-04-04 04:19:16

Adobe Makes $4.2 Billion In Revenue Per Year

Published on 2012-04-03 13:19:12

Adobe might be facing a bit of decline in some of its once dominated online sectors (think ‘Flash’), but that hasn’t stopped the software and media giant from racking up billions in revenues. According to a filing on its Q1 2012 earnings, the company made a whopping $1.05 billion. This figure was a slight improvement [...] > read more

The Internet Makes Up 4.7% Of The U.S. Economy

Published on 2012-04-03 10:19:11

The internet has come a long way since its military beginnings. What was once a tool in the war chest of the US government is now a tool for global economic prosperity. A recent study by the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) gave some insight into just how important the internet is to some of the [...] > read more

Amazon Has 164 Million Paying Customers

Published on 2012-04-03 07:19:11

Everyone knows that the pioneer for the daily deals industry is Groupon, but at the start of the craze many felt that the model itself was flawed. Since then though, Groupon has gone public, daily deals is alive again and many big-name companies are joining the fray. One such big-name company is Amazon who’s lit [...] > read more

192 Million Consumers Will Shop Online By 2016

Published on 2012-04-02 13:18:44

Online shopping is already worth a sizable chunk of most developed economies in the world, but despite this some are saying that it will become even bigger in the next few years. A new report from Forrester Research is predicting that a whopping 192 million consumers will go online to buys stuff by 2016. This [...] > read more

CNN To Buy Mashable For $200 Million?

Published on 2012-04-02 10:18:43

AOL acquired TechCrunch a while back and set off the new trend in buying up content and media websites. Now it looks like CNN is trying to join the fray. Rumors are swirling after Reuters reporter Felix Salmon let slip that the news giant started by billionaire Ted Turner is going to announce very soon [...] > read more

Google Pays Apple $1 Billion To Use Search In Apple Products

Published on 2012-04-02 07:18:41

When it comes to getting eyeballs online, there are so few players that dominate search and social media. This of course means it’s a constant struggle and sometimes (as in the case of Google) you have to leverage your assets. In this case Google is using its billions to buy its way onto Apple’s products [...] > read more

Caddo.com Domain Name Sold For $1,205

Published on 2012-04-02 04:18:40

Instagram Hits 27 Million Registered Users

Published on 2012-04-01 13:23:43

Instagram is now officially one of the top 5 Apps to watch. The popular photo-sharing App is of course dominant on Apple’s iOS platform and according to co-founder Kevin Systrom; the App now has over 27 million registered users. Registered users are not classed the same as active users but according to Systrom, Instagram is [...] > read more

Twitter Now Has 1.5 Million Apps

Published on 2012-04-01 10:23:41

The growth of many social networking and blogging platforms are driven in large part by third-party developers who interact via the now entrenched API. Everyone from Google to Amazon does it, and sites Twitter do it to near-perfection. The world’s largest micro-blogging website recently gave a sneak peek behind its curtains and revealed the full [...] > read more

Twitter Acquires Posterous

Published on 2012-04-01 07:23:40

Wow! That is about all I can say about the news that Twitter has acquired Posterous, the popular blog-posting service and platform that graduated from the Y Combinator program back in ’08. This is one that few would have seen coming and Twitter has achieved a bit of a coup, not least because Posterous is [...] > read more

CDN.net Domain Name Sold For $185,000

Published on 2012-04-01 04:23:39

There Are 1.3 Million .Co Domains Registered in the World

Published on 2012-03-31 13:51:28

The .CO extension was setup as the default country code TLD for Columbia, but no sooner than it dropped, domainers rushed to commercialize it and make money touting it as a haven for companies looking to build a presence online. The .CO extension soon became a hot item and domainers were flipping names like Wine.co, [...] > read more

Facebook Surpasses 3,000 Timeline Apps

Published on 2012-03-31 10:51:27

A lot is riding on Facebook ‘Timelines’, the feature that was introduced last year. Presently Timeline is optional for profiles and brand pages, but soon brand pages at least will be migrated forcefully to the new setup. But perhaps the area where the Timeline feature has been felt the most is in the Open Graph. [...] > read more

Yahoo Sues Facebook Over 10 Patents

Published on 2012-03-31 07:51:26

Ever since Yahoo got a new CEO, there have been noticeable changes at the company. A few longstanding board members jumped ship and the company now seems to have a bit of grit about it. That grit is being demonstrated in a lawsuit that was filed against Facebook recently. It comes as part of a [...] > read more

Facebook Does NOT Have 845 Million Users

Published on 2012-03-31 04:51:26

If you ask most people about Facebook’s active user base, you’ll hear 800 million active users—give or take a couple million. But it seems that Facebook has had to take a hard look at its numbers and concede that it may not have that many user after all. The social networking giant had to revise [...] > read more

Chinese Video Companies Youku & Tudou Merge Over $1 Billion Deal

Published on 2012-03-30 13:51:05

Competition watchdogs in China don’t necessarily work the as they do in the States, and this fact makes for some interesting dealings in China’s tech sector. Recently tow of the country’s biggest online video platforms merged in a deal worth over $1 billion. The deal that was struck between Youku and Tudou now see a [...] > read more

20.6% Of Facebook Users Are Younger Than 18 Years Old

Published on 2012-03-30 10:51:04

Teenagers are always a big part of what drives technology forward nowadays and so it is always interesting to take a look at just how well represented (or not) they are on some of the webs biggest tech sites. Thanks to a study conducted by Sodahead, we can get some insight into just how many [...] > read more

76% Of Companies Don’t Have Clearly Defined Social Media Policies

Published on 2012-03-30 07:51:02

Social media is such an important part of marketing any enterprise these days that it’s somewhat unbelievable that many companies don’t have clearly defined social media policies are goals interwoven into their marketing. This astounding fact was recently revealed in a study conducted by Mindflash who took a look at how companies structure the social [...] > read more

CloudServers.com Domain Name Sold For $32,010

Published on 2012-03-30 04:51:01

GoDaddy is a domain name selling company on the internet that probably sounds familiar to a lot of people. They are well known and remembered due to their advertisements on the internet as well as their TV commercials that feature some pretty women. Even though I’m pretty sure these women have nothing to do with [...] > read more

83.3% Of The Internet Watched Videos Last Month

Published on 2012-03-29 13:43:50

Much of what becomes established on the internet is first pioneered by the web’s earliest adopters—Americans. This sort of explains that Americans are at the vanguard of the video-watching culture that is emerging on the internet. A new study conducted by comScore into the video-watching phenomenon of Americans is revealing that US internet users watched [...] > read more

YouTube Releases 19,000 Indian TV Shows To Watch Online

Published on 2012-03-29 10:43:50

YouTube is fast transitioning from a pure user-generated content platform to one where production pieces are near-Hollywood in quality. The world’s largest video sharing platform has a section called “YouTube Shows” and it has recently got an infusion of content. YouTube announced via a blog post that the YouTube Shows section has been updated with [...] > read more

Citrix Acquired Cloud.com For $200 Million

Published on 2012-03-29 07:43:50

So Citrix acquired Cloud.com for $200 million but was that the biggest bit of detail coming out of that transaction? Not all; instead, we’ve all got to watch the owners of Domaingang.com enjoy their 15 minutes of fame as both Citrix and Cloud.com gave them a mention for a faux news story that was covered [...] > read more

Sol.com Domain Name Sold For $129,075

Published on 2012-03-29 04:43:49

It is very interesting to look into domain names and the domain name selling business these days because companies of this kind are bringing in a lot of money! For instance one such company had a big sale here recently… The domain name selling company Sedo.com recently announced its sales report for the week that [...] > read more

Amazon Web Services (AWS) Uses 450,000+ Servers

Published on 2012-03-28 13:43:49

Amazon just reported making $1 billion in ad revenue alone for 2011 and this of course is just one small part of the multi-billion dollar empire that Amazon is amassing as the years go by. But have you ever wondered what the engine for this empire looks like? Specifically, we are talking here about servers [...] > read more

Salesforce Launches Site.com

Published on 2012-03-28 10:43:48

Salesforce.com had a stellar 2011 as far as acquisitions were concerned and that trend looks to have carried forward nicely to 2012. The all-inclusive online business solutions company has reportedly launched a brand new offering on the very brandable domain, Site.com. The new offering is reportedly concentrated around extending Salesforce.com’s cloud-based offerings and will let [...] > read more

51% Of Website Traffic Is Usually Non-Human

Published on 2012-03-28 07:43:47

Website security is one of those things that most website owners take for granted—not in an absolute sense, but enough to leave most websites vulnerable. This vulnerability has a cost attached to it of course, and the word from website developers and security experts is that it could not only affect your site in a [...] > read more

CityCompass.com Domain Name Sold For $13,654

Published on 2012-03-28 04:49:16

Afternic.com is a well known and successful domain name selling company on the internet. They sell quality domain names to businesses and people around the country as well as the world. They are one of the more well known domain name selling companies and is similar to Sedo.com is popularity as well as price, while [...] > read more

Facebook Has 37 Million Brand Pages

Published on 2012-03-27 13:43:24

By now it should be obvious to anyone with a brand or a brain that Facebook is definitely where the action is. Sure, Google+ is emerging, but Facebook is already ‘here’. Very little surprise therefore, that a whopping 37 million brand pages now exist on the world’s largest social network. Details of the number of [...] > read more

Better.com Domain Name Hits $70,000 On Flippa

Published on 2012-03-27 10:43:23

Flippa is not the sort of place you see a domain like Better.com being offered for sale, but this is precisely where a particular domainer is trying to make some money. Now this route in and of itself is a bad one, the domain so far has hit $70,000 in bids; what is not so [...] > read more

CrosswordPuzzles.com Domain Name Was Sold For $220,000

Published on 2012-03-27 07:43:22

Before Sudoku became the craze, the humble crossword puzzle was the in-thing, and for a long time too. Given this rich history it’s perhaps no surprise then that the domain Crosswordpuzzles.com was bought way back in 2007 for $220,000. The domain was bought by very prominent domainers Frank Schilling who unlike many other players in [...] > read more

Sol.com Domain Name Sold For $130,000

Published on 2012-03-27 04:43:22

There are a variety of web site businesses that sell domain names to different companies and individuals seeking to move their business to the world wide web for advertisement purposes, or to keep up with the times, etc. No matter the reason, it is a wise business decision to purchase a domain name for a [...] > read more

Facebook Paid Developers Over $1.4 Billion In 2011

Published on 2012-03-26 13:39:07

Moderators who work for Facebook through oDesk might be fuming at their $1 per hour compensation but not Facebook developers. This elite group of workers combined, earned just over $1.4 billion in salaries for 2011. This extremely generous pay-out is due in large part to Facebook’s renewed focus on games and social Apps. Indeed, Zynga, [...] > read more

TVGuide.com Acquires Fav.Tv

Published on 2012-03-26 10:39:07

With the shift in focus from traditional TV moving inexorably towards the internet, many traditional players are seeking to ‘acquire their way to relevance’. The latest example of this is the acquisition of Fav.Tv by TVGuide.com. In what has been expressly declared as an acquisition driven by the need to acquire talent, TVGuide now shores [...] > read more

Amazon Brings In Over $1 Billion In Ad Revenue

Published on 2012-03-26 07:39:05

Amazon has such a complex and layered business setup that it is sometimes hard to track where precisely the company makes its money. We know that it makes quite a bit of money from online retailing, but Amazon’s latest earnings data is revealing something startling about its ads business. If you’ve ever used Amazon’s sites [...] > read more

BackTweets.com Domain Name Sold For $8,332

Published on 2012-03-26 04:39:03

There are various domain name-selling companies on the World Wide Web. These companies bring in a lot of revenue and are very successful due to the popularity of having businesses online. Just as there are many different domain name selling companies to choose from when looking into purchasing a domain name, there are thousands upon [...] > read more

55% Of People Are Uncomfortable Providing Their Credit Card On Social Sites

Published on 2012-03-25 13:38:54

Billions of dollars are spent online each year by internet users that have overcome the fear of using their credit cards online. But there some people (lots as it turns out) that are just not ok with using their credit cards online—especially on social media platforms. A new study conducted by Argyle has helped to [...] > read more

175,000 New Tweets Happen Every 60 Seconds

Published on 2012-03-25 10:38:52

60 seconds may not be a lot of time for most things but in social media, that’s a veritable lifetime. So furious is the activity during this short space of time that peo0ple have actually started measuring things. Marketing consultancy firm Social Jumpstart took a look recently and came up some rather stunning figures. According [...] > read more

Dream.org Domain Name Sold For $25,000

Published on 2012-03-12 04:11:34

There are various domain name selling companies on the world wide web. These companies bring in a lot of revenue and very successful due to the popularity of having businesses online. Just as there are many different domain name selling companies to choose from when looking into purchasing a domain name, there are thousands upon [...] > read more

DomainTools.co Domain Name Sold For $2,500

Published on 2012-03-11 13:11:13

It’s not every day that you can register a domain that is trademarked under a new extension and get away with it, but the registrant for Domaintools.co has managed to do just that. The domain was sold recently on Sedo for a hefty $2,500. The amount is not ‘massive’ by most domain sales standard but [...] > read more

SeoResearch.com Domain Name Sold For $1,505

Published on 2012-03-11 04:12:59

43% of LinkedIn Users Are American

Published on 2012-03-10 13:18:35

LinkedIn may not have the wealth of users that Facebook has a social network but as a more focused platform for professionals, it really doesn’t get any better than LinkedIn—and Americans seem to share that opinion; so much so that a large chunk of its user base come from the land of America. The numbers [...] > read more

Android Hits 850,000 Daily Activations

Published on 2012-03-10 10:18:36

The little green robot is on the move again, and this time, it’s exploding to the tune of 850,000 activations each day; this from Google’s SVP of Mobile and Digital Content, Andy Rubin. According to Rubin, this spectacular growth in activations has generated a stunning 250% growth over last year and presently, Google Android is [...] > read more

Google Vs. Baidu

Published on 2012-03-10 07:18:37

Nobody does search better than Google, that much is proven. But despite this the search giant seems to have a terrible time cracking the Chinese search market, and that’s even not talking into account the regulatory and political hurdles that the Silicon Valley giant faces from China’s government. Its biggest challenge is of course, Baidu—China’s [...] > read more

9189.com Domain Name Sold For $1,605

Published on 2012-03-10 04:18:33

Skype Reaches 32 Million Simultaneous Users

Published on 2012-03-09 13:13:03

Ever use Skype and see a huge number at the bottom of the window telling you how many people are online? Well, if you’ve ever noticed that number you’ll see it dangling near the 20 million users logged in mark. That number has hit a new milestone and Skype is announcing that a whopping 32 [...] > read more

Hotmail Reaches 5 Million Android Downloads

Published on 2012-03-09 10:13:02

Google is a thief—a thief of Microsoft Hotmail users that is. Microsoft announced recently that its Hotmail App for Android has now been downloaded more than 5 million times—in just five months. The announcement is one of those things that will make analysts scratch their heads in bemusement because it’s obvious that even Hotmail users [...] > read more

38 Million Americans Use Mobile Devices to Visit Social Networks

Published on 2012-03-09 07:13:02

Just a few days ago we wrote about the tremendous numbers that mobile traffic generated over 2011, so it comes as no surprise that ComScore is releasing yet more stunning figures surrounding mobile and its relentless march to the top of the heap. The latest data released by ComScore shows that a total of 64.2 [...] > read more

Fibre.com Domain Name Sold For $10,012

Published on 2012-03-09 04:13:02

Phones Generated 10% Of Internet Traffic Last Year

Published on 2012-03-08 13:13:01

The online traffic paradigm changes by the minute and the latest shift seems be skewed towards mobile traffic and its overall impact on web surfing behavior. According to a recent report released by comScore, mobile phones accounted for 10% of all internet traffic in 2011 and this figure is expected to grow even more this [...] > read more

Yieldbot Raises $4 Million To Help Sell Search Ads

Published on 2012-03-08 10:13:00

The race to grab eyeballs online is a very competitive one indeed and to keep up with the competition, one needs money—lots of it. This is why Yieldbot, an Ad tech start-up has pulled out all the stops top raise money towards keeping up. The company announced in a blog post recently that it has [...] > read more

Bill Gates Vs. Batman

Published on 2012-03-08 07:12:59

Let’s face it, Bill Gates doesn’t have the quintessential superhero appeal; he doesn’t have the bulging biceps, abs to die for, or the charm and sophistication that makes a superhero a ‘hit’ with the ladies. But he has undoubtedly, an intelligence that most superheroes would be terribly envious of, so it sort of makes you [...] > read more

Google Translate Now Supports 64 Languages

Published on 2012-03-07 13:12:37

There might be many paid translation software and platforms out there, but many pale in comparison to Google’s own translation tool—and best of all its free. Now the world’s best and free translation tool has been given an upgrade. Google announced the addition of ‘artificial’ language Esperanto to its list of languages, bringing the total [...] > read more

61% Of People Feel Addicted To The Internet

Published on 2012-03-07 10:12:35

If modernity and technology has produced anything that can be considered remotely negative its addiction. People in the western world especially are addicted from pretty much everything these days and we can now officially add the internet to the list. A recent survey conducted by opinion pollster, Sodahead, revealed that addiction to the internet is [...] > read more

Google Terminates AdSense For Parked Domains

Published on 2012-03-07 07:12:34

Domain parking was one of those passive online income streams that savvy marketers used to make a living from, but in the last few years the industry has shrunk, and the gig facilitators have started to turn their backs on domain parking. The latest industry facilitator to turn their backs on domain parking is Google; [...] > read more

Let.com Domain Name Sold For $100,000

Published on 2012-03-07 04:12:32

Eventbrite Sells 50 Millionth Ticket

Published on 2012-03-06 13:07:55

Things are looking up for Eventbrite, the six year old online ticketing company. The company issued its 50 millionth ticket recently, and by all accounts 2011 was a bumper year. Over 40% of those tickets were sold in 2011. Driving the high surge ticket sales was the expansion made in terms of listed events, and [...] > read more

Man Sells Home On Twitter For $135,000 More Than Asking Price

Published on 2012-03-06 10:07:54

Who says the housing market is sluggish? Things look rather rosy on Twitter (if you can consider the popular micro-blogging platform a market). This is what a Melbourne man found out recently when he enlisted social media in a bid to sell his home. Kurt Opray, who by his own admission is very tech savvy, [...] > read more

Retickr Raises $1.5 Million For Another Social News Reader

Published on 2012-03-06 07:07:53

Social news readers are many; that much is certain, but few cater to the growing user base of Apple’s Mac OS X. That’s why companies like Retickr are cashing in on this gap in the market so to speak. The company announced recently that it’s just updated its platform to meet the OS X’s new [...] > read more

Mry.com Domain Name Sold For $55,000

Published on 2012-03-06 04:07:53

Nordstrom Lost 26 Million Customers To Zappos

Published on 2012-03-05 13:07:34

There was a time when experts felt that shoes would never do well online; for them, the joy and excitement of trying on shoes in the store was just too much to give up. That was then; today not only are people buying shoes online, they seem more comfortable doing it online than offline. Thus [...] > read more

Barnes & Noble Sold $420 Million Worth Of Books Online Last Quarter

Published on 2012-03-05 10:07:33

Amazon may be on fire with its retail book selling business, but other companies are still doing well selling books. Offline book selling giant Barnes & Noble announced its revenue and earnings figures for 2011 recently, and although things fell short of analysts’ expectations, the company is doing half bad—that is when you consider that [...] > read more

Attachments.me Now Accounts For 40 Million Gmail Attachments

Published on 2012-03-05 07:07:32

If you’ve ever tried to find an attachment in your email only to give up in frustration then don’t worry; your pain is being felt and thanks to Attachment.me, that pain can now be alleviated. The start-up which goes by mantra, “hunt attachments down. Fast” recently announced a series of new features that will make [...] > read more

Zynga Player Spent $100,000 On Mafia Wars

Published on 2012-03-05 04:07:29

Apparently a former employee for Zynga, an engineer to be exact, is releasing private information regarding the company since his release from the company. He has been posting this information to Reddit. He has a lot to say about the company but also about how much money some players spent on games like Mafia Wars. [...] > read more

68.2% Of Pinterest Users Are Women

Published on 2012-03-04 13:10:19

A suggestion that the popular image mutual sharing and social networking site Pinterest is for women would have drawn condemnation as sexist, but the real numbers seem to be saying precisely that. Using comprehensive data gathered from the likes of ComScore, Modea, a data mining and insights company has put together an infographic which spells [...] > read more

15 Million .DE Domain Names Exist In The World Now

Published on 2012-03-04 10:10:18

Domainers may not talk too much about the power of the .DE domain name extension but in terms of raw numbers, it is perhaps the most popular country code TLD (ccTLD) there is out there. DENIC.de is responsible for managing the domain and it is reporting that the extension now has over 14 million (14,881,746 [...] > read more

Is Facebook Secretly Reading Your Text Messages?

Published on 2012-03-04 07:10:18

Last year there was a big stink about Facebook revealing mobile numbers because of a glitch in how it stored and shares mobile data; this year there’s another issue, and at the heart of the problem is something more personal, more important to users—text messages. According to a report by the London based Sunday Times, [...] > read more

Dwolla Gets $5 Million In Funding

Published on 2012-03-04 04:10:17

With the prevalence technology and the countless people that use it, more and more features are being added to the internet and mobile web, from smart phones, in order to make things more convenient and easy for its users. One such company that is doing just that is Dwolla, which is a company involved in [...] > read more

43% Of Young People Buy Smartphones At $15,000 Salary

Published on 2012-03-03 13:10:17

Next to air, the smartphone has become the next –can’t-do-without thing for young people. So says a survey conducted by research and insights firm Nielsen. The company conducted a survey of 20,000 US mobile users and found that smartphone usage is heaviest (unsurprisingly) among the young wealthy people in the country. But the use is [...] > read more

AT&T Will Throttle Mobile Bandwidth Of Top 5% Users

Published on 2012-03-03 10:09:55

It was bound to happen sooner or later—and it was always going to be spearheaded by big-name carriers like AT&T. I am talking about the limiting of mobile bandwidth of course, and fresh news is that AT&T plans to cut the allocation of its top 5% users. The company sent out text messages last week [...] > read more

Ammando Raises $9 Million To Solve Global Giving Issue

Published on 2012-03-03 07:09:54

These charity and charitable giving has seen a convergence in the online space, and many would-be charities are looking for intermediaries to help them raise much needed funds. One such intermediary is Ammando, a company which seeks to bridge the gap between charities and donors. The company seems to be making some progress in establishing [...] > read more

GumRoad Raises $1.1 Million In Funding

Published on 2012-03-03 04:09:52

Gumroad is a new type of feature on the world wide web that will allow people to turn links into a form of payment system. There are making it easier to sell stuff online, “As easy as sharing a link”, according to their web site, gumroad.com. Their web site is definitely worth checking out as [...] > read more

Fab.com Acquires Casacanda For $11 Million To Expand Into German Speaking Countries

Published on 2012-03-02 13:09:49

The growth of Fab.com is starting to look like some sort of anomaly, not least because it’s been gathering members at breakneck speed, converting them from leads to buyers and giving daily deals competitors like Groupon a run for its money. And it’s essentially a niche daily deals website. To add to that spectacular growth, [...] > read more

MySpace Is Still The #50th Most Popular Site In The U.S.

Published on 2012-03-02 10:09:48

Ever since MySpace got slaughtered by the juggernaut that is Facebook, many have written it off completely, even with the subsequent sale of the former social networking giant by Rupert Murdock. But the latest ComScore data is suggesting that MySpace may be far from dead—at least not in America. Based on the latest data from [...] > read more

Yandex Processes 2+ Million Searches Per Day

Published on 2012-03-02 07:09:47

Russia is well known for its Vodka, but now the country is looking to establish itself as source of very fine tech talent—and talent with an entrepreneurial additive. The country’s first and successful search engine Yandex, has launched a ‘social search’ component to its very popular search engine. Yandex’s foray into social search has been [...] > read more

SmartShop.com Domain Name Sold For $59,000

Published on 2012-03-02 04:09:45

Will Twitter Hit 500 Million Users Soon?

Published on 2012-03-01 13:00:14

A few weeks ago we wrote about Twitter and its fast approach to the 500 million mark. Now that march seems to be almost here. Some are saying next Wednesday—yep, the 29th of Feb, a leap day no less. But there’s a fly in the ointment; it’s not Twitter itself who is predicting this milestone, [...] > read more

MegaUpload Only Had 66.6 Million Registered Users

Published on 2012-03-01 10:00:09

So MegaUpload.com is in more hot water with the law, but there’s a twist. It turns out the once heavily trafficked file sharing website doesn’t boast quite the number of registered users it once advertised. Initially only charges of conspiracy to commit racketeering, conspiracy to commit copyright infringement, conspiracy to commit money laundering and criminal [...] > read more

iCloud Now Has 100 Million Users

Published on 2012-03-01 07:00:07

Tim Cook seems to be doing a fine job as Apple’s CEO because since Job’s passing and his assuming the helm, it’s been nothing but good news after good news. The latest round of good news came at a Goldman Sachs Technology and Internet Conference during which Cook took the floor to talk about Apple’s [...] > read more

LuckyShop.com Domain Name Sold For $1,925

Published on 2012-03-01 04:00:06

Chinese Search Engine Baidu Makes $2.8 Billion A Year

Published on 2012-02-29 13:00:06

Search continues to be a profitable online sector, regardless of geographic location and nowhere is this more evident that with Baidu, China’s number one search engine. In the spirit of Q4 2011 earnings releases, Baidu revealed its own numbers, and based on what has come out so far, the company seems to have had a [...] > read more

Demand Media Made $351 Million In Revenue Last Year

Published on 2012-02-29 10:00:05

Content and media companies have been having a torrid time in the search engines, especially with Google and its now famous ‘Panda update’. One such company is Demand Media, which runs a wide extensive network of media properties. The company releases its Q4 2011 numbers recently and unsurprisingly, it’s been affected by the constant algorithm [...] > read more

Yelp Made $83.3 Million In Revenue Last Year

Published on 2012-02-29 07:00:02

Another company founded or funded by the so-called “PayPal Mafia” is about to go public, but Yelp’s underlying performance is suspect—leaving many to wonder if the valuation being touted is sound. Founded in 2004, Yelp has become a vital tool in the marketing and branding efforts of local business. This they achieve through leveraging the [...] > read more

AvianFlu.com Domain Name Sells For $4,995

Published on 2012-02-29 04:59:31

Average User Spends 6.5 Hours On Facebook Every Month

Published on 2012-02-28 13:59:30

Social networking is fast becoming the number activity among computer users in the US, and a recent study by online information gatherer Statista attempts to hard figures to the data. Unsurprisingly, Facebook is the number one social network in the US, and most users can’t get enough of it. According to the study, the average [...] > read more

eBay Buyer Finds $26,000 In Safe

Published on 2012-02-28 10:59:28

In these recession laden times, one needs every bit of luck one can get, and eBay buyer, A Bartlett seems to have lady luck on his side. Bartlett won an auction on the popular auction and retail website only to find out that inside the Safe he won for a measly $122.93, sat a delightful [...] > read more

Facebook To Make $1.2 Billion From Mobile Ads

Published on 2012-02-28 07:59:27

Facebook is busy trying to wrap up the details for its upcoming IPO, but that hasn’t stopped people from speculating about the social network’s potential moves post-IPO. One area that is heavy with speculation is whether Facebook will make a play for mobile advertising, and if it does what that will look like. Of course, [...] > read more

K.to Domain Name Sold For $40,000

Published on 2012-02-28 04:59:26

Google Latitude Vs Foursquare: Who Will Win?

Published on 2012-02-27 14:40:07

Location based platforms are popping up all over the place, and as more and more people become less concerned about being watched and track the competition will become even hotter. Fir now though, there are only a few players. Leading the way is Foursquare, perhaps the most popular location based platform. It is increasingly facing [...] > read more

Eric Schmidt Sells Off $1.45 Billion Worth Of Google Stock

Published on 2012-02-27 11:40:06

Eric Schmidt is cashing in; or is it cashing out? Whatever the case, the former Google CEO is sitting on $1.45 billion after selling off some of his stake in Google stock. The sale which was broken by the Wall Street Journal sees Schmidt reducing his ownership in Google from 2.8% to 2.1%–a reduction by [...] > read more

Facebook Hacker Gets 8 Month Prison Sentence

Published on 2012-02-27 08:40:06

Glenn Mangham is going on a 8 month vacation to a place where the food is none too pretty—I am talking about prison of course. Mangham got a 8 month prison sentence in Britain recently for hacking into Facebook’s computers from his parents room. The 26 year old student managed the breach last year and [...] > read more

Baseball.net Domain Name Was Sold For $52,000

Published on 2012-02-27 06:41:14

Apple Marches towards Its 25 Billionth App Store Download

Published on 2012-02-26 13:58:21

Apple for all intents and purposes is the pioneer in the sales and proliferation of mobile Apps. It comes as no surprise then that the company is getting ready to welcome its 25 billionth App Store download, an achievement which Apple has even started to countdown towards. The company slapped a big counter on its [...] > read more

85% Of U.S. Adults Are Social Media Users

Published on 2012-02-26 10:58:18

Social Media is becoming as American as Apple Pie and Baseball. A recent study which looked at the projected growth in the next 5 years for social commerce, highlight a few interesting facts about social media as it relates to US users. According to the study around 85% of all US adults are social media [...] > read more

FaceValue.com Domain Name Sold For $20,000

Published on 2012-02-26 07:58:14

Google Delivers 97% Of All Mobile Searches

Published on 2012-02-26 04:58:12

Google’s dominance of every other search engine on the planet is not in doubt, but the extent of that dominance is often not explored across all verticals. A recent study conducted by SEO Company SEOMoz in conjunction with SEO Slingshot is helping to bring some clarity to that dominance. The study pitted Google against Bing, [...] > read more

98% Of Schools Use Facebook To Communicate With Students

Published on 2012-02-25 14:22:04

Social networking used to be two very bad words in schools, colleges and universities across America, but all that is changing. A recent Social Media Adoption study conducted by The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, found that social media is now at the heart of school communication and teacher student interaction. The most used tool by [...] > read more

Apple Faces $38 Million Fine For Using The Word “iPad”

Published on 2012-02-25 12:22:03

Apple is usually the one firmly behind the trigger when lawsuits connected to patent and trademark infringements are filed in connection with its products. But this time, Apple finds itself firmly in the cross hairs of a lawsuit. A Taiwanese company is claiming Apple violates its trademark by continuously using the term “iPad” and is [...] > read more

LinkedIn Made $167.7 Million In Revenue Last Quarter

Published on 2012-02-25 10:22:03

A few tech companies fell short of Wall Street expectations at the end of last year, but a few have bettered expectations. One such tech company is professional social network LinkedIn, who released 2011 Q4 figures recently. According to the release LinkedIn had better than expected fourth quarter performance with revenues of $167.7 million. This [...] > read more

84% of Colleges And Universities Now Use Twitter

Published on 2012-02-25 08:22:02

The exact rules for how schools, students and teachers should use social media are still being debated, but for now the practical applications are finding their way across colleges and universities in America. A recent study conducted by Onlineuniversities.com highlights just some of the ways in which social media is transforming in-school communication across America. [...] > read more

Urbanspoon Hits 28 Million Visits Per Month

Published on 2012-02-25 06:21:59

If you’ve ever used a restaurant App on your mobile phone then chances are you’ve used Urbanspoon. The company released its growth statistics recently, boasting monthly site visits of 28 million users per month. This is extraordinary because the overall growth in visitors is a staggering 80%–even out-pacing overall mobile growth of the web. The [...] > read more

Four Board Members Are Leaving Yahoo

Published on 2012-02-25 04:21:35

It’s no secret that Yahoo is struggling, but the man they’ve hired to fix things seems to be causing trouble inside its corridors of power. Since Scott Thompson was hired to run the struggling search engine and media giant around, directors have been jumping like rats on a sinking ship. First co-founder and former CEO, [...] > read more

Facebook Buys FacebookCleanEnergy.org Domain Name

Published on 2012-02-24 14:21:33

Is Facebook going green? This is the question many people’s lips after a slew of clean energy domains were registered with the word ‘Facebook’ as part. One of the many domains includes FacebookCleanEnergy.org, a very clear sign for many, that Facebook is committed to doing something towards saving the planet. In December last year (2011), [...] > read more

Amazon Is Now UK’s Top Entertainment Retailer With 22% Market Share

Published on 2012-02-24 12:21:30

There was a time when a trip to a UK shopping centre to pick up a CD or DVD led you right through the doors of HMV, or even one of Branson’s Virgin Stores. But that was before online merchants like Amazon made it more convenient to get these items. HMV stores still exist on [...] > read more

GoCardless Raises $1.5 Million In Funding

Published on 2012-02-24 10:21:29

These days, handling your monthly bill payments is easier and more convenient than it has ever been. A big part of that convenience is what is called ‘interbank transfers’, a simple movement of funds between banks that help settle bile etc. between ‘large’ merchants. I say large because until now, you had to be spending [...] > read more

US Mobile App Industry Accounts For Over 500,000 Jobs

Published on 2012-02-24 08:21:27

At the start of the mobile Apps craze, few envisaged that it would blossom into an industry worthy of celebrating as job-creation engine, but that is exactly what has happened. According to a study conducted by TechNet, the US Apps industry now accounts for nearly half a million jobs (466,000 to be exact). This is [...] > read more

Google Censors Content In India

Published on 2012-02-24 06:21:26

Google is in hot waters again. This time it’s in India where the search giant has been ordered by an Indian Court to remove images from its search results that are deemed offensive to Muslims. Google had fought long and hard for its right to display the images, but in the end, Indian sensibilities and [...] > read more

Flingo Raises $7 Million In Funding

Published on 2012-02-24 04:21:25

TV Check-in services are fast defining themselves as the “second screen”, and the players are lining up to dominate the space. One such a player is Flingo, a company and platform that was started by former Bitorrent honcho, Ashwin Navin. The growth of the service itself has been remarkable enough to attract investment dollars and [...] > read more

Brands Will Spend $10 Million On Twitter By Super Bowl LI

Published on 2012-02-23 14:19:35

So heavy was brand advertising on Twitter during this year’s Super Bowl that many are already predicting that by Super Bowl LI, over $10 million will be spent on promoted tweets. One of the leading advocates of this prediction is Dave Kerpen, CEO of Likeable Media. Speaking about the impact Twitter advertising could have on [...] > read more

Viddy Gets $6 Million In Funding

Published on 2012-02-23 12:19:33

The whole web 2.0 movement has spawned the growth of new sectors; new paradigms and all have drawn entrepreneurs in search of gold. But many are questioning what is driving this search, and more importantly, the investor funding that seems to flow so easily into these sectors. A good example of this new rush to [...] > read more

Facebook Makes $691,000 Per Employee

Published on 2012-02-23 10:19:32

The tech sector has always polarized people. For many it’s a place of inflated salaries, inflated expectations and menagerie of experimentation. For others, it’s been the lifeline that many economies need, especially in the US. That polarization may just have some clarity to it—at least based on a recent study which shows how much tech [...] > read more

Klout Acquires Mobile Startup Blockboard

Published on 2012-02-23 08:11:08

Social popularity website Klout.com is moving up in the world. The company recently secured additional funding and right out the gate it seems poised to make a name for itself. The company has just completed its first acquisition, snapping up Blockboard, a mobile service that is built around sharing tidbits of information with your neighbors [...] > read more

ShutterStock Hits 200 Million Image Downloads

Published on 2012-02-23 06:11:07

Stock photography is already big business, and with legislation like SOPA, ACTA and PIPA clamping down on copyright infringement, it will probably become an even bigger business. Little surprise then that Shutterstock, one of the web’s biggest seller of licensed stock photography is boasting the important of being the first business of its kind to [...] > read more

55% Of People Don’t Like Giving Their Credit Card Info To Social Networks

Published on 2012-02-23 04:11:07

It looks like the built-in share-heavy nature of social networks is large chunk of users uneasy about disclosing their financial information. A study conducted by marketing company, Digitas in conjunction with Harris Interactive has revealed that a whopping 55% of shoppers are very dubious about entering their credit card details over social networks. For the [...] > read more

LinkedIn Reaches 150 Million Users

Published on 2012-02-22 14:10:04

The world’s biggest professional social network is getting bigger—and it’s growing fast. LinkedIn announced in a press release that since November 2011, the site has grown by over 20 million users and now stands at a decent 150 million users. The announcement comes as LinkedIn makes its annual disclosure of its performance over the course [...] > read more

100 Million Americans Watch Online Video Every Day

Published on 2012-02-22 12:10:03

For many in the tech space, it’s only a matter of time before the TV is banished from the living room and is replaced by large screens hooked up the internet. At the heart of that very gloomy picture for Television is the rise and rise of video. Many predict it will account for more [...] > read more

H&M Is The Most Popular Brand On Google+ With 456,365 Circles

Published on 2012-02-22 10:10:03

H&M is defying the odds and making a splash on Google’s social network, Google+. So popular is H&M on the platform that it leads all brands in terms of Circles. The fashion retailer now stands at 456,365, and tops other big-name brands like Pepsi and Starbucks. It perhaps helps to have the face of David [...] > read more

Blip Raises $12 Million In Funding

Published on 2012-02-22 08:10:02

Somehow along the way, Blip.tv lost much of its appeal as the web’s number ne destination for series video, but the site has quietly maintained its focus. So much so that it still manages to attract investor funding. The company recently raised over $12 million in a fresh funding round, to the surprise of many [...] > read more

Mark Zuckerberg Made $500,000 Yearly Salary

Published on 2012-02-21 14:09:34

In the world of executive salaries at the tech level, $500,000 is peanuts, yet this is exactly what Mark Zuckerberg made last year. Details of his salary package were revealed in an S-1 filing with the SEC, something Facebook has to do before it goes public. According to the filing, Zuckerberg makes around $500,000 annually, [...] > read more

Groupon Made $1.6 Billion In Revenue In 2011

Published on 2012-02-21 12:09:32

Well so much for reading Groupon its last rites. Instead of dying, the company has gone from struggling daily deals website to quoted company, and now one that is not doing too badly where revenues are concerned. In its first earnings call since going public last October, the company is revealing revenues of $1.6 billion [...] > read more

TripAdvisor Made $637.1 Million In Revenue In 2011

Published on 2012-02-21 10:09:32

The economy might be sagging, but travel website TripAdvisor seems to be having a stellar time making money. Since making a clean break from Expedia and making its own listing on the NASDAQ, the company has had steady growth in its revenue numbers. A recent posting of its revenues for 2011 revealed that the company [...] > read more

Legal Startup DocRun Gets $1.1 Million In Funding

Published on 2012-02-21 08:09:31

The legal documents space has its fair share of players, but that hasn’t stopped the backers behind Legal start-up, DocRun from having a go. According to reports, DocRun has managed to raise over $1.1 in seed funding from VC Michael Hirshland’s new fund, Resolute.vc, Google’s Don Dodge, and Kima Ventures. The backers are hoping that [...] > read more

2.1 Million People Watched Super Bowl 46 Online

Published on 2012-02-21 06:09:30

The plots and sub-plots to Super Bowl 46 were so heavy, that viewership was bound to smash records. NBC had the biggest coverage ever with millions tuning in to watch the big game. And whilst NBC was busy breaking records on TV, its streaming of the game was also racking up some history as well. [...] > read more

Microsoft Employees Raised $946 Million For Charities Since 1983

Published on 2012-02-21 04:09:29

The Bill and Melinda Gates foundation is world renowned as charity powerhouse, but little is known about the fact that Microsoft itself has in it a culture of benevolence. Microsoft gave a glimpse of the extent of that culture with the recent announcement that over $100.5 million was raised in 2011 by its employees. The [...] > read more

25% Of Wolfram Alpha Queries Come From Siri

Published on 2012-02-20 14:29:16

Siri may not be a name that is instantly recognizable among web users, but if the trend continues with its performance on Apple’s iPhone 4S, it could very well shake things up with search giants like Google. Siri is important because according to a report released by the New York Times, about 25% of the [...] > read more

LinkedIn Acquires Rapportive For $15 Million

Published on 2012-02-20 12:29:14

LinkedIn clearly isn’t resting on its laurels. The world’s largest social network for professionals has reportedly acquired contact management company, Rapportive for $15 million. The deal has been confirmed by several sources deeply connected in the tech space, and by all accounts, both sides are happy about the deal. Rapportive is relatively young and was [...] > read more

Lady Gaga Launches Her Own Social Network Called LittleMonsters.com

Published on 2012-02-20 10:29:13

Lady Gaga has such huge followings on Facebook and Twitter, that many speculated she might one day launch her own social network. Well, that day is here. A fledgling start-up called Backplane has partnered with Gaga to launch LittleMonsters.com, a space where Gaga fans can share related content and generally shoot the breeze over the [...] > read more

Americans Buy 20% Of Valentine’s Gifts On The Internet

Published on 2012-02-20 08:29:12

February 14 is that special day when people express their undying love for that special person by going out and spending lots of money. And Americans spend money on Valentine’s Day like no other. According to data collected by the National Retail Federation and eMarketer.com, Americans are expected to spend around $17 billion on Valentine’s [...] > read more

CommercialEnergy.com Domain Name Sold For $4,005

Published on 2012-02-20 06:29:11

MegaUpload Made $175 Million In Revenue With 180 Million Users

Published on 2012-02-20 04:52:56

By now the news of the takedown of popular file sharing website Megaulpoad.com must have spread far and wide to all corners of the globe. Now people are busy piecing together bits of information to present the true scale of what occurred and why the US government felt justified in taking down the site. Many [...] > read more

60% Of Internet Users Will Use Facebook In 2012

Published on 2012-02-19 12:53:33

As IPOs go, it probably doesn’t’ get much bigger than Facebook’s upcoming $10 billion offering with a gargantuan $100 billion valuation. But some people aren’t happy, and some are even calling the potential $100 billion valuation ridiculous. To put the argument to rest, the fine folks over at Statista.com have delved into the numbers and [...] > read more

Hulu Made $420 Million In 2011

Published on 2012-02-19 10:53:32

The tech space is now far removed from the potential sale of Hulu that it is hard to believe that it is the same company that had no fewer than 4 suitors a little more than 6 months ago. Instead of selling Hulu, its board and owners decided to plot a new course for profitability [...] > read more

LinkedIn Generates 3X More Leads Than Facebook Or Twitter

Published on 2012-02-19 08:53:32

If there was any arguments over which social media platform is good for generating leads, Hubspot has put the debate squarely to rest. Hubspot conducted a brief study into the effectiveness of generating leads, comparing Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn. The study found that businesses that used LinkedIn to generate leads were 3x more successful than [...] > read more

Amazon.com May Launch Junglee.com In India

Published on 2012-02-19 06:53:31

Amazon is really keen on localizing its business presence it seems, because speculation is rife that the retailing giant is set to launch a Indian version of its website. According to reports, Amazon is looking to call this new site Junglee.com, in an effort to give the people of India a sense of ownership of [...] > read more

Is Facebook Timeline Going To Ruin Facebook?

Published on 2012-02-19 04:53:31

Facebook is the most popular social networking site of our time and it is even more odd now to hear of someone that doesn’t have a Facebook that someone that does. Facebook appeals to a wide range of users varying in age, background, cultures, etc and is not only popular in the United States but [...] > read more

75% Of Americans Use Their Phones On The Toilet

Published on 2012-02-18 14:53:03

The bathroom is not the sort of place you’d expect a study on phone use to be conducted, but marketing research firm 11Mark has taken on the challenge. Branded “IT in the Toilet”, the study found that 75% of Americans use their phones on the toilet. Some activities were more popular than others, with texting [...] > read more

28.1% Of Twitter Users Are Based In The U.S.

Published on 2012-02-18 12:53:02

Twitter like most social networks have their roots in the US. But many, including Twitter have seen the share of US users drop steadily as more and more countries flood to these sites. According to a recent study conducted by Semiocast, of the 383 million Twitter profiles that were created before January 31st 2012, only [...] > read more

Mogl Raises $10 Million In Funding

Published on 2012-02-18 10:52:59

With a slogan like “Eat out, Cash in”, it’s not difficult to see why Mogl.com is making headway and at the same time attracting some serious VC funding. Branded as a cost effective way for restaurants to generate loyalty from local customers, Mogl lets proprietors increase engagement through means such as charity and loyalty reward [...] > read more

Vevo Makes $150 Million In Revenue

Published on 2012-02-18 06:52:54

Just 2 years into its life and after countless naysaying, it seems as if Vevo is finally picking up steam. Its President and CEO Rio D. Caraeff revealed as much when he spoke recently at media conference. According to Caraeff, Vevo generated over $150 million in revenue over the course of 2011. At the same [...] > read more

CardSpring Raises $6 Million In Funding

Published on 2012-02-18 04:52:52

Cardspring is a new online company that is seeking to create an application platform that will allow mobile and web companies to write up applications for credit cards and other types of payments. This is a complicated process that other companies such as Groupon, FourSquare, and Living Social have tried to accomplish, but haven’t quite [...] > read more

AOL Made $577 Million Last Quarter

Published on 2012-02-17 14:50:02

Are things picking up again for AOL? That must certainly be the sense among analysts who have been greeted with news that the former online media giant made $577 million in the last quarter of 2011. This figure beats Wall Street estimates, but unfortunately didn’t do better than Q4 revenue figures for 2010, which were [...] > read more

Google Maps Fined $650,000 In France

Published on 2012-02-17 12:50:00

Google must feel that France is just a terrible place for it to do business after it was hit with yet another fine by a French court. The latest fine is connected with its enterprise cartography service, Google Maps. At issue is the fact that some companies can use it freely in France, while competing [...] > read more

IE9 Reaches 36.2% Market Share On Windows 7

Published on 2012-02-17 10:49:58

IE6 may be nearly dead, but its offspring IE9 is growing fast. According to Microsoft, the latest incarnation of the browser is the fastest growing browser among Windows 7 users and amount for 36.2% of browser use on the platform. In fact, IE9 is the most used browser on all Windows 7 computers and Microsoft [...] > read more

Rumgr Raises $500,000 In Funding From Zappos

Published on 2012-02-17 08:49:56

The garage sale experience is just one App away, thanks to Rumgr. The App is the pillar of a start-up which has just received $500,000 in funding from Zappos. The App was co-created by Dylan Bathurst. According to Bathurst, the idea for the App came out of his own frustrating experience of trying to sell [...] > read more

NBB.com Domain Name Sold For $95,000

Published on 2012-02-17 06:49:54

One quick glance at the domain NBB.com will in an instant draw your attention to the fact its just one letter removed from NBA.com. Now if NBA.com is worth a lot, you can bet a pretty penny that NBB will be worth something too. That worth was proven last August when the domain sold on [...] > read more

Google+ Reaches 100 Million Users

Published on 2012-02-17 04:49:52

Google is a very popular web site and company on the world wide web. Many know it for the search engine services that it has. However, it offers many other features such as Google Docs, Google maps, and even its own social networking site, Google +. They are definitely keeping up with the times and [...] > read more

Artspace Raises $2.5 Million In Funding

Published on 2012-02-16 14:43:26

Another offline model has met the world of online commerce and this time it’s Artspace, an ecommerce website designed to match contemporary artists with galleries and potential customers—a virtual showroom if you will. The company recently raised $2.5 million in funding from various VCs including, Felicis Ventures, Accelerator Ventures, Blue Equity LLC, and Metamorphic Ventures. [...] > read more

Viddy Surpasses 40 Million Views

Published on 2012-02-16 12:42:33

Star power seems to be working very well for mobile video app maker, Viddy. So far big-name celebs like Snoop Dogg and T-Pain have helped push the app platform to new heights and the latest figures suggest that Viddy is growing faster than expected. According to a statement released by the company, Viddy had over [...] > read more

Facebook’s 845 Million Users Are Worth $4.39 Each

Published on 2012-02-16 10:42:27

Are you on Facebook? If so, have you ever considered just how much you are worth to Mark Zuckerberg and his friends? Well, I spare you the suspense. You are worth roughly $4.39 to Zucks—this is after you break down its annual revenues by the total number of users that are active on the platform. [...] > read more

Mark Zuckerberg Spent $700,000 On Private Jets In 2011

Published on 2012-02-16 08:42:26

Big-name IPOs are those rare events that let you peel back the curtain and see what has been going on inside the walls of these big corporate entities. Such is the case with Facebook who due to its impending IPO has had to be revealing intimate details of its operations. The latest details to catch [...] > read more

WordPress 3.1 Leads The Way With 15 Million Downloads

Published on 2011-07-05 11:22:59

If Google makes it easy to find information on the web, then WordPress makes it even easier for anyone to put their information on the web. Really, what would the web really be like with without the easy-to-deploy blogging and site-building platform? > read more

Amazon Kindle App Still in Apple App Store

Published on 2011-07-05 10:22:52

The Kindle app is still found in the App Store and it looks like it survived Apple’s deadline for apps that has external links. Apple recently changed its terms with regards to iOS apps, which will disallow apps to have links to external sites for > read more

Amazon Will Not Collect California Sales Tax

Published on 2011-07-05 08:22:50

Amazon.com said that it will not collect California sales tax on online transactions and the state officials should decide what to do about it. This is the latest development since the new tax law took effect last Friday. It is the practice of compan > read more

Amazon Reduces Cloud Data Transfer Fees

Published on 2011-07-05 07:22:48

Amazon Web Services announced last Thursday that it will decrease the fees for outbound data transfers as well as remove the fees for inbound data transfers. This is just the latest moves made by the company with regards to customer bandwidth costs. > read more

Google Gives Gmail a Makeover

Published on 2011-07-05 06:22:47

Google web services are redesigned to match its Google+ social network. If you’re a Google user then you might have already noticed the black bar on top of the search engine and other services. The company announced that Gmail will be next to have > read more

Google+ Invites in eBay

Published on 2011-07-05 05:22:44

There are at least 255 listings for Google+ invites in eBay. In case you were living under a rock in the past few days, Google+ is Google’s latest attempt at social networking. It is still in field test and most of those who got into the testing ph > read more

Fidbit Leaks Users Sexual Activity On Google’s Front Page

Published on 2011-07-04 10:22:12

There are some things you share and some things you don’t. Sexual activity is one of them; at least that’s how it used to be. Nowadays, with everyone going social, nothing it seems is out of bounds. The well know fitness and calorie tracker websi > read more

WikiLeaks Takes Aim At Visa And MasterCard With Lawsuit

Published on 2011-07-04 09:22:11

WikiLeaks is off the ropes, and making a full frontal assault; at least that’s how things probably look from the standpoint of Visa and MasterCard, the two ubiquitous credit card giants. Reports are that the Julian Assange led website, along with i > read more

How to Not Annoy People with Google Plus

Published on 2011-07-04 08:22:03

I’ve been on Google+ for less than a few days, and already people are treating it like a second rate social site. However, in this case, the problem isn’t the web service itself, but the people using it. Here’s what I mean… Have you ever > read more

3 Social Upstarts that Will Disrupt the Social Landscape

Published on 2011-07-04 07:22:01

The shelf life of a typical social media platform doesn’t seem to be more than 3-5 years, and though Facebook and Twitter have a pretty good hold on the market for now, that doesn’t mean they can’t be displaced. Some might even say that there > read more

Using Twitter Search as a Modern Day Time Capsule

Published on 2011-07-04 06:22:00

Next to Facebook, Twitter has one of the largest social graphs on the web. They have millions of active users, tweeting several times per day, about topics of every nature. Though Facebook has the bigger user base, you can’t jump into Facebook and > read more

MySpace Cuts Half of its Employees after Being Sold by News Corp

Published on 2011-07-04 05:20:11

MySpace laid off more than half of its 450 employees last Wednesday after News Corporation sold the social networking site to Specific Media. This is more than the initial report that only 150 workers or 37.5 percent of the staff will be terminated a > read more

Why Bread Will Eat Twitter’s Lunch

Published on 2011-07-04 04:20:09

Though Twitter has finally gained traction beyond early adopters and tech geeks, they’ve struggled to reach and maintain profitability. Sure, they’re doing a decent job of innovating and testing new monetization strategies, but having sponsored u > read more

How to Get a Google Plus Invite

Published on 2011-07-04 03:19:52

Now that Google+ has launched, the lucky few with early access have been blogging, tweeting, and Facebook bragging about their new opportunity, leaving those on the outside feeling, well…left out. To make matters worse, the invite system became > read more

AOL Faces Lawsuit for Stalking Consumers

Published on 2011-07-03 10:18:05

A federal class action lawsuit was filed against AOL to ask the internet company from invading people’s privacy. The suit claimed that AOL tracks people’s web browsing and sells the data to third-party advertisers. Also accused are ScanScout and > read more

Google+ Faces First Privacy Issue

Published on 2011-07-03 08:12:37

While there are people wanting to get into Google+, there are already some people who are complaining about privacy issues. In Google’s latest attempt at a social network, a user can categorize the people into different circles. That way you can sh > read more

Google Improves Gmail’s Anti-Phishing Tool

Published on 2011-07-03 07:12:36

Google improved the security of its Gmail service by adding an anti-phishing feature that would automatically show the sender’s address for some messages. This move was designed to help users spot unscrupulous messages that attempt to trick people > read more

HP and eBay Help Tech Sector Maintain Gains

Published on 2011-07-03 06:12:36

Hewlett-Packard and eBay helped the tech sector maintain gains last Thursday in the stock market. The Nasdaq Composite index was up 1.2 percent to 2,772 while the Morgan Stanley High-Tech index showed an increase of 1.7 percent. The Dow raised more t > read more

MySpace Lays Off More Than Half Of Its Employees

Published on 2011-07-03 05:12:36

After Specific Media bought MySpace from News Corp for $35 million another round of layoffs was immediately announced. This time more than half of the company’s 450 employees got the pink slip. Compare this to two years ago when the company had 1,5 > read more

Google Looking To Steal Hulu From Yahoo & Completely Dominate The Web

Published on 2011-07-03 04:12:35

All right, I’ll tone it down a bit, perhaps “steal” is too strong a word. Maybe a better word is lure. Reports are that Google is trying to secure a deal that would see Hulu, the 10th most popular video destination online, stream it’s content > read more

Hulu To Be Acquired By Google?

Published on 2011-07-03 03:12:19

Popular movie and video streaming site Hulu recently announced that it was putting itself up for sale. The company which is owned by Walt Disney, News Corp, NBC Universal and Providence Equity Partners has revealed that several buyers are interested > read more

Facebook To Announce “Awesome” Product Next Week

Published on 2011-07-02 13:08:46

Facebook, the current leading social network, has a surprise in store for everyone which will be revealed next week. CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that they will “launch something awesome” next week. Invitations have already been sent out through Face > read more

Google Fails To Acquire Nortel Patents

Published on 2011-07-02 11:08:31

Google lost out to a consortium on its bid to acquire an estimated 6,000 patents from Nortel, a bankrupt telecom-equipment manufacturer. Google bid $900 million for the patents however the consortium which included big companies such as Apple and Res > read more

Zynga To Go Public With $1 Billion IPO

Published on 2011-07-02 10:08:31

Zynga has recently made known its intent to go public by filing the necessary requirements at the Security and Exchange Commission. The company hopes that they will be able to raise $1 billion from this which they can use in future expansions and pro > read more

Facebook to Partner with Skype to Bring In-Browser Video Chat Functionality

Published on 2011-07-02 09:08:31

Press across the country have begun receiving invitations from Facebook CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, which asks them to join him for an undsiclosed “event” on July 6. While there are still rumors and speculation floating around this special event, peo > read more

Google Plus Puts Everything Together

Published on 2011-07-02 08:08:02

Over the course of the past several years, Google has tried and failed in their many attempts to create social services that catch on with their users. Though Google Buzz is still supported, Wave was a clear failure, and to many, Google’s product d > read more

Isaac Stone Leaves Twitter

Published on 2011-07-02 07:42:40

Isaac Stone, one of the co-founders of Twitter, announced that he will leave the social network to pursue other things. It was only five years after the founding of Twitter. Stone made the announcement through his blog. Stone said that he’ll retire > read more

Google+ Users Look for App Store and Facebook Data Import

Published on 2011-07-02 05:42:38

If Google is willing to accept requests from the users of its Google+ social network, then in the future it would feature an app store and the ability to import Facebook data. A user didn’t wait for Google to act on his request and made a Chrome ex > read more

Search Advertising Increases in 2nd Quarter

Published on 2011-06-30 14:29:26

Retailers in the United States increase their spending on paid search by 12 percent in the second quarter of 2011 compared to the same period last year. The report also showed that paid search spending increased 24 percent when compared to the same p > read more

Yahoo! Creates Hadoop Startup

Published on 2011-06-30 13:29:26

Yahoo! will finance a Hadoop company that aims to expand the scope of the open source platform. It hopes to bring it to a larger audience. The company hopes to grow the Hadoop ecosystem via increased work on the open source project. Yahoo! hopes to e > read more

Amazon To Cut Ties With Thousands Of California Affiliates

Published on 2011-06-30 12:29:25

Tax legislators are now targeting Amazon affiliates who live in California. Reports are that a newly passed online sales tax law, would force Amazon.com to sever all ties with affiliates who reside in California. What a shame. At a time when people a > read more

Appirio Takes Google Apps to Universities

Published on 2011-06-30 11:29:08

Google Apps has become one of the most known cloud-based platforms these days. Universities are starting to migrate to it, going away from their old calendar and email systems via a cloud-solution provider Appirio. Google provides the apps and charge > read more

Google Data Shows How Governments Try to Control Online Content

Published on 2011-06-30 10:29:06

People know how the Chinese government likes to censor contents in the internet but according to the data Google published today, many governments across the globe are trying to control information seen in the internet. In its Transparency Report, Go > read more

Google Spray and Pray Approach Explained

Published on 2011-06-30 09:29:03

Google wants to be part of every aspect of people’s lives. Venture capitalist Jean-Louis Gassee called the company’s approach as spray and pray. He said that the company wants to have its ads at people’s faces all the time. This is the reason w > read more

Microsoft Lures Back Enterprises from Google

Published on 2011-06-30 07:29:01

InterContinental Hotels Group decided earlier this year to move all its 25,000 employees from Microsoft’s email and Office productivity suite to Google’s web-based solutions. At present, 6,000 workers of the hotel management company have already > read more

Mozilla Leaves Enterprise Behind to Join Google

Published on 2011-06-30 06:28:58

Mozilla is not worried about the concerns of the business community with regards to its Firefox web browser. Now IT admins might find an ally in Google’s Chrome development team. Businesses claim that Mozilla’s rapid release schedule could pose a > read more

MySpace Crashing Fast – 150 Employees To Lose Their Jobs

Published on 2011-06-30 05:28:54

It’s hard to fathom how MySpace, a once social-media-behemoth could succumb to it’s present fate. It’s inability to keep pace with the likes of Facebook and Twitter has relegated it to the virtual sidelines. Now to add insult to injury, comes n > read more

Is Google+ The New Facebook Killer?

Published on 2011-06-29 23:34:00

Ever since Facebook made it cool to have lots of friends, Google has been trying to play catch-up—literally. And with Facebook on pace to reach 1 billion users in the next few years at least, Google has found itself desperately trying to integrate > read more

Google Launches Voice Search

Published on 2011-06-29 13:49:58

If you haven’t already heard, Google has just recently launched a new feature called “Voice Search”. It allows users to perform search queries using their voice rather than their keyboard. To use it, users can simply click on a micr > read more

Google’s +1 Goes Global

Published on 2011-06-29 12:46:13

Internet search giant, Google, recently unveiled its +1 button for English search results. This button allows Google users to recommend blogs and websites to their friends and contacts by pressing the +1 next to the search results. The +1 button > read more

Google Trys Social Games Market

Published on 2011-06-29 11:39:34

There are speculations that Google is set to enter the social browser-based games market when it posted an opening for a Product Manager, Games. Google said that it’s looking for someone that can design strategies for game distribution and discover > read more

eBay Unhappy With California’s Amazon Tax

Published on 2011-06-29 10:39:30

California legislators approved a measure that would force internet retailers to collect sales tax from their transactions. The lawmakers might be targeting Amazon.com but other retailer, such as eBay, are not thrilled with the new tax. The online au > read more

eBay Unveils Online Video Ad Unit

Published on 2011-06-29 09:39:27

eBay just launched a new cost per engagement video model that is designed to give advertisers a better return on investment. This type of marketing tool will give companies a way to showcase their products to their target market. The CPE model is dif > read more

Facebook Overtakes Microsoft As Second Most Popular Site In UK

Published on 2011-06-29 08:39:25

Facebook became the second most popular web site in the United Kingdom as it overtook Microsoft. Google remained the most popular site in the U. K. according to UKOM/Nielsen. Facebook had 26.8 million visitors in May to beat Microsoft’s MSN/Windows > read more

Google, Yahoo, and Facebook’s Privacy Issues

Published on 2011-06-29 07:39:21

Google, Yahoo, Facebook and other internet companies have made billions of dollars by tracking what people do online and use that information to target advertising based on algorithms that predicts what the person might want to purchase. At present, > read more

Apple, Google, and Amazon Cloud Services

Published on 2011-06-29 06:39:19

Three big companies launched cloud services that were designed to give users access to their music libraries. This is due to the demand from consumers for services that let them store and access their music collections. Amazon was the first to launch > read more

Twitter Challenges Facebook & Digs Deeper Into The Advertising Game

Published on 2011-06-29 05:37:27

Most people don’t realize it, but the main reason websites like Facebook & Youtube are free is so that they can auction off it’s user-base as advertising inventory. It might seem odd, but it’s the truth. It is this inherent aspect of “Fre > read more

Facebook Welcomes Hackers

Published on 2011-06-28 14:00:26

One sure way to be hired by technology giants is to be a famous hacker. George Hotz, a Sony PS3 and iPhone hacker, joined Facebook as a software engineer. He has been employed by the social networking web site since May 9. It was reported that most o > read more

Google And PayPal Stalk Mobile Payments

Published on 2011-06-28 13:00:07

Google and PayPal are expecting mobile payments via near-field communication technology to take off this year. Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt said that at least a third of checkout terminals in retail stores and restaurants will be upgraded t > read more

Winklevoss Twins File Another Suit Against Facebook

Published on 2011-06-28 12:00:06

The Winklevoss brothers filed another lawsuit against Facebook, just days after it dropped Supreme Court action. The twins claimed that Facebook intentionally suppressed evidence during their previous court case. Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss original > read more

Wyoming Migrates to Google

Published on 2011-06-28 11:00:00

Governor Matt Mead announced last June 22 that all of Wyoming’s state employees have migrated to Google Apps for Government. This will save the state $1 million a year. The 10,000 state employees will now work on a single email platform. In the pas > read more

Hotmail Steals Outlook Interface

Published on 2011-06-28 10:34:56

Microsoft has updated Hotmail, their popular email service, which makes it similar to their Outlook application. During the recent weeks the company has been working to introduce several new features that including shortcut keys that people are famil > read more

Microsoft Won’t Release Portable Gaming Console

Published on 2011-06-28 09:20:54

It might seem like a natural move for Microsoft to release a portable gaming console. Its rivals in the gaming business include Nintendo and Sony however only Nintendo and Sony are manufacturing portable gaming consoles. This has made a lot of people > read more

PayPal Hits 100 Million Users

Published on 2011-06-28 07:06:52

Popular payment processor PayPal has just announced that they have reached a milestone by hitting the 100 million active user mark. The company is optimistic about the number of mobile payments to be made this year, doubling their previous estimate o > read more

Google Sells User Data To U.S. Government

Published on 2011-06-28 07:05:46

During the recently held Transparency Report of Google, a report that is held bi-annually, the company said that the U.S. government has the highest rate of requests for user information compared to other governments worldwide. Google has a 94% compl > read more

Facebook For Android Updated To 1.6

Published on 2011-06-28 06:08:41

The native Facebook app for Android has been updated recently to version 1.6 with several updates done to improve user experience. Here are some of the changes done in this version: Addition of Pages Improvement of News Feed Uploading of videos Altho > read more

Apple To Introduce TV Set In 2012

Published on 2011-06-28 05:08:21

An analyst believes that Apple is planning to introduce a television set in 2012. It would be the successor to the current Apple TV set-top-box according to Gene Munster. The United States Patent & Trademark Office published several Apple patents > read more

Bing Taking Over Search Engine Market

Published on 2011-06-27 11:09:16

Google remains the leader in the search engine market but Bing has steadily gained some according to the data collected by research firm Complete. From May 2010 to May 2011, Google lost 16 percent of its market share. It has a 63.6 percent share. Dur > read more

Google Discontinues PowerMeter and Health Products

Published on 2011-06-27 10:09:15

Google is set to discontinue two of its products because they were not received well by internet users. The two products are Google PowerMeter and Google Health. Google PowerMeter is an energy monitoring tool that lets users analyze their home’s en > read more

Google Receives Subpoena from FTC

Published on 2011-06-27 09:09:15

Google confirmed that it received a subpoena from the United States Federal Trade Commission regarding an investigation of its business practices. The company described how it would defend itself during its confrontation with regulators and competito > read more

Twitter Introduces In Stream Ads

Published on 2011-06-27 08:08:25

Twitter said that it would be offering In Stream ads to advertisers. This would be in addition to the ads that are promoted in the Trends sidebar. This is another way Twitter wants to monetize its site. The site is looking for ways to gain more profi > read more

Yahoo’s Financial Problems

Published on 2011-06-27 07:08:24

Yahoo shareholders are asking the board to replace its CEO Carol Bartz. They were disappointed to find out that the board remained loyal to the CEO during the annual shareholder meeting. Leadership issue is just one of Yahoo’s problems. Its revenue > read more

Apple Develops Auto Tilt Correction for iPhone Camera

Published on 2011-06-27 06:08:22

Apple recently filed with the United States Patent & Trademark Office a patent with the title image capture device having tilt and/or perspective correction. It looks like the device company has developed a method that would use the iPhone’s se > read more

Facebook Apps Ban Angers Hundreds Of Developers

Published on 2011-06-26 11:45:49

There is an old saying in the web development circles, and it goes something like this: “If you don’t own the platform, you don’t own the traffic”. And it seems this is quite true, with many app developers on Facebook waking up to the nightma > read more

Google Maps Removed From iOS 5

Published on 2011-06-26 09:45:39

Apple decided to forego the Google Maps in its iOS 5 in favor of an in-house mapping solution. This was discovered by some people who read the new system’s legal disclaimers. There’s a new section in the fine print called Map Data that lists the > read more

Twitter To Introduce Streaming Ads

Published on 2011-06-26 08:45:34

Twitter will soon be integrating ads into your live stream which might not please users of the popular micro blogging social platform. The company which is still finding ways to monetize its service generates revenue of about $100 million which is sm > read more

iPad Games Dominated By Sega All Star Racing

Published on 2011-06-26 07:45:28

Although the iPad makes a great business tool, it won’t be complete without games installed on it. This week we have rounded up some of the best-selling games that people have downloaded for the iPad. Surprisingly enough, leading the pack is the ne > read more

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