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| Jul 25, 2012 | UK startup Usurv bids to steal a march on Google Consumer Surveys in Europe | New tech company targets online mass market research opportunity while Google is reportedly held back by European cookie laws
Today sees the launch of new UK technology startup, Usurv, which uses the power of the web to conduct quick, accur... |
| Jun 15, 2012 | Hitwise: Google US Search Share Down 5% In The Last Year; Bing, Yahoo Gained | Google is still by far the most dominant search engine in the U.S., but in the last year it actually lost some momentum while Yahoo and especially Microsoft’s Bing both saw increases, according to figures out today from Experian Hitwise, an... |
| Feb 2, 2012 | Hitwise: Facebook.com Now Accounts For 1 In Every 5 Pageviews On The Web (In The U.S.) | In case you happened to be the victim of a day-long coma yesterday, it was a very exciting day for Mark Zuckerberg, Silicon Valley, and that quaint little social network we’ve all come to know, love, and be terrified of. Facebook filed its ... |
| Jan 12, 2012 | Facebook to reach 1B active users in August, that’s 14% of the world | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Facebook is soon to have 14 percent of the world’s population all to itself. A new study says the social network will hit one billion u... |
| Jan 2, 2012 | Hitwise: Google+ Approaches 50 Million Monthly Visits [updated] | According to data shared by Experian Hitwise US, Google+ received around 50 million visits in December. That’s a jump of nearly 20 million from the month before and its biggest month of traffic since its launch at the end of June.
Google’s ... |
| Dec 22, 2011 | Hitwise: For The Third Year In A Row, Facebook Was The Top-Searched Term In The U.S. | Experian Hitwise, which has analyzed the top 1,000 search terms for 2011, is reporting that Facebook was the top-searched term overall in the U.S. for the third year in a row. Facebook accounted for 3.1 percent of all searches, a 46 percent... |
| Dec 22, 2011 | Facebook most-searched term and most-visited site of 2011 | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
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| Dec 22, 2011 | Facebook most-searched term and most-visited site of 2011 | Don’t tell Google, but the top search term and the most-visited website of 2011 were one in the same: Facebook.
Inquiring minds asked about the world’s largest social network so much that Facebook accounted for 3.10 percent of all U.S. sear... |
| Sep 9, 2011 | A year later, Bing+Yahoo still treading water against Google | It has been a year since Bing began powering search results for Yahoo. That pairing has done little to increase the overall market share of Microsoft's search engine entrant, increasing only four percent during the period.
In an even starke... |
| Jul 27, 2011 | Sophomore Slump? One Month In, Google+ Sees A Traffic Minus | Tomorrow, it will be exactly a month since Google+ was first unveiled. In that short amount of time, they’ve managed to sign up well north of 10 million users, which is amazing. Of course, the easiest path to tens of million of users is to ... |
| Jul 26, 2011 | Should Microsoft Dump Bing? Not on the Strength of This Argument | Time for Microsoft (MSFT) to dump its money-losing Bing search engine, argue journalists Robert Cyran and Martin Hutchinson at Reuters BreakingViews. As a distant second to Google (GOOG) that drags down Microsoft earnings, Bing shouldn't st... |
| Jul 22, 2011 | How Google+ ranks in traffic compared to other social sites | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
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| Jul 20, 2011 | Hitwise Estimates Google+ Got 1.8 Million Visits Last Week And Grew 283 Percent | We know that Google+ is growing like a weed, with more than 10 million registered users (some say close to 20 million now).
Experian Hitwise takes a stab at estimating the early growth of Google+. For the week that ended July 16, the Google... |
| Jun 24, 2011 | Google Antitrust: Easy To Charge, Hard To Prove | If any more regulators and legislators target antitrust probes at Google (GOOG), they'll have to take numbers and stand in line. The European Union has an existing probe, the Federal Trade Commission and the Senate Judiciary Committee are r... |
| Apr 25, 2011 | Experian Hitwise: Google’s Panda Takes Big Bite Out Of Content Farms | Experian Hitwise reports that downstream traffic to content farms has taken a big hit since Google’s Panda initiative went into effect.
Panda is a change in Google’s algorithm that punishes search rankings for websites that produce low-qual... |
| Apr 19, 2011 | Zillow Files for IPO, PopCap Heading the Same Way, Zynga Beckons Local Talent, & More in the Seattle-Area Tech Roundup | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
The Seattle tech scene got its first entrant in what looks like a coming wave of initial public offerings when Zillow made its intentions official, filing paperwork with feder... |
| Apr 13, 2011 | Take Out Slideshows And Other Forced Search, And Bing's Market Share Isn't Quite 30 Percent | A couple days ago, the headlines blared that Bing now has 30 percent search market share in the U.S. Not so fast. Those numbers were based on Hitwise estimates. Today, comScore came out with its own qsearch estimates, which is what Wall Str... |
| Apr 12, 2011 | Bing Gains on Google, Breaks 30% U.S. Search Share | Microsoft (MSFT) Bing-powered searches finally broke 30 percent share of U.S. searches, according to Experian Hitwise. Furthermore, Microsoft and Yahoo (YHOO), which also uses Bing, kept the lead they've had in success rate, a measure of th... |
| Feb 8, 2011 | Microsoft’s Bing wrests search share from Google | Microsoft’s search engine, Bing, now has 27 percent of the search engine market and is quickly gaining on Google, according to Hitwise. Bing’s share rose by 6 percent in the month of January alone.
The bigger news, and perhaps the underlyin... |
| Jan 15, 2011 | Has Bing Become Better than Google? | It borders on tech blasphemy to suggest that Microsoft (MSFT) Bing has become a better search engine than Google (GOOG). The latter is still champion of the search set, delivering nearly 70 percent of all U.S. search results.
But whether de... |
| Jan 3, 2011 | How A Startup Pivots: The Tagged Story (So Far) | Editor’s Note: This a guest post by Greg Tseng, who co-founded Tagged in October 2004 and has served as Chief Executive Officer since its inception. He has been a driving force in creating Tagged.com with his partner, co-founder and long-ti... |
| Dec 30, 2010 | Facebook traffic finally triumphs over Google | Facebook accounts for four of the 10 most searched terms and is the most visited website in 2010
In 2009, two of the top 10 most-searched terms on the Web were “facebook” and “facebook login.” In 2010, two new terms made it onto the list: “... |
| Dec 30, 2010 | What you need to know- Thursday 12/30/2010 | TextualAds raised $650,000; Union Square Ventures has secured $135M; Facebook most visited in 2010
Skype is launching a brand new version of its iPhone app. This version will include the ability to turn on video in any Skype chat, bringing ... |
| Dec 29, 2010 | Hitwise: Facebook Overtakes Google To Become Most Visited Website In 2010 | According to Hitwise data released today, Facebook.com was the top visited website in the US in 2010, taking up 8.93% of site visits between January and November 2010. Google.com came in second at 7.19%, Yahoo Mail is third with 3.52% and Y... |
| Dec 29, 2010 | Facebook owned the Internet in 2010 | If you did a Web search in 2010, you were probably looking for Facebook, according to new data released by Experian Hitwise.
The report shows that between January and November of this year, “facebook” was the most popular term entered into ... |
| Sep 14, 2010 | Bing passes Yahoo, now a distant second behind Google | Data source: Nielsen reader comments 49 with 39 posters participating
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| Jul 19, 2010 | New Market Research: Social Media Sites as Annoying to U.S. Customers as Cable Providers, Airlines | A new study by ForeSee Results and the American Customer Satisfaction Index finds that U.S. consumers regard social media sites Facebook and Myspace as lowly as they regard cable providers, airlines and the I.R.S.
The Annual E-Business Repo... |
| Jun 16, 2010 | Autoquake strengthens its team with key new appointments | Autoquake, the UK’s largest online car retailer, today announced three new appointments to strengthen its management team. Alan Burns, Mark Brophy and Karl Marriott join Autoquake.com from Expedia, the largest online travel company in the w... |
| Jun 11, 2010 | 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa: The Ultimate Guide To Digital Delight | Today’s the big day. TechCrunch turns five years old. And oh, there’s a huge football – no, not ‘soccer’ – event kicking off in South Africa too.
Many of you will be missing the opening match(es) while you’re out celebrating our birthday an... |
| Jun 8, 2010 | Social networks overtake search engines in UK – should Google be worried? | Hitwise, the web analytics firm, has a report out today that claims that social networks now receive more UK Internet visits than search engines.
Which, if the case, would imply that Google should be considerably worried about its future ba... |
| Jun 4, 2010 | A year of Bing brings credibility, some market share gains | reader comments 57 with 43 posters participating
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Thursday, Bing turned one. What has Microsoft achieved during the last 12 months? A glance at search market share doesn't s... |
| Jun 1, 2010 | Pot, kettle, black? Microsoft voices concerns over Google | reader comments 95 with 73 posters participating
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You say you've heard it all? Maybe not—the company that controls over 92 percent of the worldwide operating system market i... |
| May 6, 2010 | Roundup: Chrome shows off speed, Clearwire ditching WiMax, and more | Here’s the latest action:
Roku preps for summer Netflix upgrade — In June, the video streaming device maker will allow its customers to find video titles via a new onscreen search tool. This will make it the first such offering to provide t... |
| Apr 28, 2010 | What are people searching for? Facebook, Facebook, and Facebook | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
The term “facebook” by itself is now the top sear... |
| Apr 28, 2010 | What are people searching for? Facebook, Facebook, and Facebook | The term “facebook” by itself is now the top search on Google, Yahoo and Bing, according to a new report from traffic analysis firm Hitwise. Searches for “facebook login” are popular, too. People seem to instinctively type company names int... |
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| Jan 27, 2010 | Apple hype machine: unannounced iTablet is the 4th most searched for laptop in UK | [UK] Nobody generates hype better than Apple and we Brits lap it up just like everybody else.
Hitwise Intelligence, the web measurement firm, reports that the iTablet, iSlate, Apple Tablet (or whatever) was the 4th most searched for ‘laptop... |
| Jan 25, 2010 | MySpace now smaller than Facebook was a year ago | December data released by Nielsen examines year-over-year trends in unique visitor counts and time spent on social networking sites in the United States and around the world, including Facebook and Myspace. US time spent on social networks ... |
| Jan 25, 2010 | MySpace now smaller than Facebook was a year ago | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
December data released by Nielsen examines year-o... |
| Jan 15, 2010 | Bing Is Growing Faster Than Ever, Keeps Gaining Search Market Share | Bing just keeps on gaining market share, and is now growing faster than ever before. In December, Microsoft’s search engine gained another 0.4 percent to capture 10.7 percent of U.S. search queries, according to the latest comScore qSearch ... |
| Jan 12, 2010 | Yesterday Was Twitter's Highest Usage Day Ever. Today Will Be Bigger. | For several months now, all we’ve heard is how Twitter’s growth, once rapid, is flatlining. And all indications are from the various third-party measuring sources is that this is true. But Twitter co-founder Evan Williams just tweeted a lit... |
| Dec 29, 2009 | Facebook #1 site in US this Christmas | Social networking giant hits another milestone, beats out Google as most visited site this holiday
Facebook has sure seen a lot in 2009. From explosive growth in registered users to changing its privacy policies, the social network is at th... |
| Dec 29, 2009 | Facebook was the most visited site in the country on Christmas | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
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| Dec 29, 2009 | Facebook was the most visited site in the country on Christmas | Facebook became the most visited site in the U.S. for the first time during Christmas, topping Google, according to research firm Hitwise. On Christmas Day, Facebook attracted 7.81 percent of U.S. web traffic, compared to 7.51 percent for G... |
| Dec 16, 2009 | Microsoft is most-mentioned brand online in 2009, Google ranks second | According to a study just released by online marketing agency Zeta Interactive, Microsoft was the most-mentioned brand in an analysis of online posts on Facebook, Twitter and blogs in 2009, with 4% more post volume than #2 Google.
Microsoft... |
| Dec 16, 2009 | Microsoft is most-mentioned brand online in 2009, Google ranks second | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
According to a study just released by online mark... |
| Dec 8, 2009 | Will Google’s real-time search help Twitter? | Google is beginning to roll out real-time search results, which will include Twitter updates, along with updates from Friendfeed, blogs, and other social media sites. This could mean Twitter’s floundering traffic over the past few months is... |
| Dec 8, 2009 | Will Google’s real-time search help Twitter? | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Google is beginning to roll out real-time search ... |
| Dec 1, 2009 | Americans are getting fit, playing games, and taking photos this Christmas | As America’s biggest shopping weekend of the year draws to a close, affiliate marketing service Skimlinks can reveal what many Americans will be finding under their Christmas tree come December 25th.
Video game consoles and cameras top the ... |
| Dec 1, 2009 | Amazon wins market share battle for Cyber Monday visits | Amazon.com came out the winner in the battle for Internet traffic on Cyber Monday, typically one of the biggest days for e-commerce sales every year.
Amazon received 15.53 percent of all U.S. visits among the top 500 retail web sites, up 44... |
| Nov 29, 2009 | Amazon.com edges out Walmart on Black Friday online traffic | While Walmart dominated Thanksgiving Day online traffic, Amazon.com saw the most traffic on Black Friday, which is the traditional beginning of the holiday sales season.
Experian Hitwise reported that Amazon was the top-visited retail web s... |
| Nov 28, 2009 | Walmart won the Thanksgiving Day online shopping battle | For the fifth year in a row, Walmart saw the most online traffic on Thanksgiving Day, according to market researcher Experian Hitwise.
Walmart had 14.97 percent of of the traffic among the top 500 most-visited retail web sites on Thursday, ... |
| Nov 28, 2009 | Walmart won the Thanksgiving Day online shopping battle | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
For the fifth year in a row, Walmart saw the most... |
| Nov 16, 2009 | Bing Captures Almost 10 Percent Search Share In U.S. | Remember all that talk about Bing starting to fizzle in September? Well it didn’t happen, and now October numbers and Bing gained another half a point to reach 9.9 percent market share of U.S. searches, according to comScore’s qSearch servi... |
| Nov 11, 2009 | Bing gets geekier thanks to Wolfram Alpha | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Users of Microsoft’s Bing search engine will soon... |
| Nov 11, 2009 | Bing Teams Up With Wolfram Alpha | Microsoft’s Bing now relies on Wolfram Alpha to answer some of its users’ questions. This is not a full integration of Wolfram Alpha into Bing, though. Instead, Bing only gets answers for queries about nutrition and math problems from Alpha... |
| Nov 11, 2009 | Bing gets geekier thanks to Wolfram Alpha | Users of Microsoft’s Bing search engine will soon be able to bring up much more scientific/mathematical information, thanks to Microsoft’s deal with Wolfram Alpha.
In its blog post, the Bing team says it will be “providing access to Wolfram... |
| Oct 15, 2009 | 5 O’Clock Roundup: Sidekickers saved, e-books slashed, PCmover revisited | Microsoft recovers T-Mobile customers from the Sidekick Apocalypse — A blog post from Roz Ho at Microsoft, head of the company’s Premium Mobile Experiences group, promises that “we have recovered most, if not all, customer data” that had di... |
| Oct 13, 2009 | What 5% Drop? ComScore Says Bing Search Share Stayed Steady In September | Earlier this month, a couple reports came out suggesting that Bing’s search market share took a hit in September. Hitwise reported that Bing’s share of U.S. searches was down 5 percent (in absolute terms, it was a half-point drop to 8.9 per... |
| Oct 1, 2009 | Did Bing’s Growth Spurt Come to a Halt in September? | After months of slow but steady increases in its market share, Bing‘s share of the search market in the US and globally fell for the first time in September. According to StatCounter’s Global Stats, Bing’s share of the search market in the ... |
| Jun 19, 2009 | Friday Q&A: Catherine Cook of myYearbook.com | Earlier this month, New Hope-based myYearbook.com founder Catherine Cook was honored as the number one young entrepreneur in the country by paidContent, according to a press release.
Cook has been loved by media since she and brothers Dave ... |
| Mar 15, 2009 | Aussie startups take on Manhattan | Australia has a small but vibrant community of digital media innovators. Starved of funds by a dying venture capital sector, most have gotten by through boot-strapping. And with a home market of only 21 million, they’re looking to export sa... |
| Mar 13, 2009 | Your mom is leaving MySpace for Facebook (but you aren’t) | MySpace has been maligned for what appears to be stagnant if not declining traffic in its core U.S. userbase. But the story is more nuanced, and not so dire. Sure, MySpace’s overall traffic has taken a big hit over the last year — a 28 perc... |
| Feb 24, 2009 | Hitwise: Search Queries are Getting Longer | According to Hitwise, search queries on all the major search engines are starting to get longer and longer (PDF). While the average search query is still around two words long, queries that are longer than four words have become increasingl... |
| Dec 30, 2008 | Hitwise: High-Income Shoppers Slashed Spending Most Over The Holidays | Hitwise has just released a brief report examining the spending habits for web users over the holiday season. Using traffic data from its Retail 500 index, the site found that traffic in 2008 was lower than it was last year, but was (perhap... |
| Dec 3, 2008 | Online Holiday Sales Making A Comeback, Or Barely Holding Their Own? | After a tepid start, online holiday sales seem to be picking up a bit. Online sales on Cyber Monday as measured by comScore were a healthy $846 million, up 15 percent from last year’s Cyber Monday. Online sales since Thanksgiving are up 12 ... |
| Dec 1, 2008 | Holiday Online Retail Traffic: Walmart And Amazon Duked It Out | According to Hitwise, U.S. visit numbers across all tracked retail categories declined for Thanksgiving Day and Black Friday 2008, with the exception of online-only shopping websites. Among the top 500 Retail sites, Walmart was the top visi... |
| Nov 5, 2008 | Hitwise Ranks Election Traffic To News Sites | Hitwise has released a ranking of some of the top news sites, measured by traffic on Election Day. CNN.com came out on top, seeing a 146 percent spike over the day before. But MSNBC.com, Fox News, and the Drudge report all saw nice bumps as... |
| Jul 17, 2008 | Will Mainstream Users Ever Learn About The Browser’s Address Bar? | Traffic analytics company Hitwise released search market share numbers for dating websites in June today and two things were striking about the data.
Ad supported free site PlentyOfFish is trouncing everyone in the dating game and huge numb... |
| Jul 8, 2008 | Apparently You People Don't Really Care About Twitter Downtime | Michael once wrote that Twitter may not have to worry about uptime any more, explaining, “I now need Twitter more than Twitter needs me.” And, a few months and countless hours of downtime later, it looks like most of you feel the same way. ... |
| Jun 28, 2008 | Weekly Wrapup, 23-27 June 2008 | Here are some of the highlights from the week’s Web Tech action on ReadWriteWeb. On the product side we reported on Nokia’s buyout of the open source mobile OS Symbian, reviewed a “memory augmentation” service and a semantic search engine, ... |
| Jun 26, 2008 | YouTube Continues to Destroy All Competitors in Declining Video Market | YouTube’s huge lead in market share over other online video sites continues to get bigger, even as the over all video viewing market continues a decline. According to traffic analysts Hitwise, YouTube now sees 75.43% of traffic to the onlin... |
| Jun 18, 2008 | Hitwise: Facebook gaining on MySpace in the U.S. | This just in from web analytics firm Hitwise. Social network MySpace continues to see the most U.S. traffic — 72.73 percent share of the social networking market — but that’s a slight drop from its April traffic and a five percent drop from... |
| Jun 12, 2008 | What’s Next for Microsoft and Yahoo! | Update:Yahoo! and Google have indeed announced a partnership in the form of a non-exclusive deal allowing Yahoo! to run Google advertising alongside search results. The press release is here.
The clumsy $44 billion mating dance that began i... |
| Jun 10, 2008 | Marketshare report: All your searches belong to Google | Google continues its steady advance towards complete search domination, according to data released by Hitwise. The search giant’s marketshare increased to 68.29 percent in May, up from 67.9 percent in April and 65.13 in May 2007; year-over-... |
| Jun 10, 2008 | Hitwise: Google Up, Yahoo Down in Search for May, 2008 | This morning, Hitwise came out with its search market share numbers for May, 2008. In the U.S., Google was up slightly to 68.3 percent percent versus 20 percent for Yahoo and 5.9 percent for Microsoft. All the fighting over the fate of Yaho... |
| May 13, 2008 | Mozilla Stealth Data Project Could Be Just What The Internet Needs | One of the most frustrating tasks about my job is finding reliable traffic and other usage data about websites.
But today, Mozilla CEO John Lilly and VP Engineering Mike Schroepfer said they may fix that problem in the future, via the massi... |
| May 6, 2008 | Hitwise: MySpace Takes 3/4ths of US Social Network Traffic | According to web measurement firm Hitwise, MySpace commands 73.82% of all social networking traffic. The data comes from Hitwise’s special social networking category, which tracks US traffic 57 leading social networks. MySpace took nearly 7... |
| Apr 29, 2008 | Hitwise: Twitter traffic is, in fact, going up but still not big [Updated] | Updated with Twitter’s “real” traffic numbers, below the original post.
Web analytics service Hitwise has just released more data on web traffic to group messaging service Twitter, confirming what many blogs have anecdotally observed. Which... |
| Apr 24, 2008 | Niche Dating Sites Grow Steadily As Mainstream Ones Flail | This post was written by guest contributor Mark Brooks, an analyst/consultant whose blog Online Personals Watch summarizes the daily internet dating industry news.
In the internet dating space, bigger is not always best. According to the la... |
| Apr 15, 2008 | Search investments don’t cool — Cuill secures $25M | Google is dominating the search business. New numbers from Hitwise suggest Google controlled over 67 percent of all U.S. searches in March — its highest number yet. That apparently isn’t stopping some big time investments in field.
Search s... |
| Apr 14, 2008 | Report: YouTube Dominates Video More than Google Dominates Search | Traffic analysts Hitwise released new numbers today indicating that while online video sites as a category have seen a 7% drop in traffic year over year since March 2007 – YouTube has seen a remarkable 32% growth in visits during that perio... |
| Apr 7, 2008 | Google’s US Search Market Dominance Hits All Time High | Traffic analysts Hitwise released new numbers today finding that Google’s marketshare in US searches rose last month to an all time high of 67% of searches performed. Yahoo! Search (20%), MSN Search (5.25%) and Ask.com (4%) trail far behind... |
| Feb 22, 2008 | Facebook hiring new #2 to face growth, challenges — vote now | Third party traffic data shows Facebook usage dropping off in core markets — like these numbers just in from Hitwise (see graph, below) — even as the company struggles to do things like monetize and improve important projects like its devel... |
| Jan 19, 2008 | Weekly Wrapup, 14-18 Jan 2008 | Here is a summary of the week’s Web Tech action on ReadWriteWeb. For those of you reading this via our website, note that you can subscribe to the Weekly Wrapups, either via the special RSS feed or by email.
Highlights this week: we covered... |
| Jan 16, 2008 | Perspective: Myspace Still Kicking Facebook’s Ass in Traffic | While the media and Silicon Valley have lost our collective minds over the rise of Facebook over the past year, traffic analysts Hitwise released numbers today indicating that things are not as they might seem. Apparently, all the Facebook ... |
| Dec 12, 2007 | Google Checkout Tries To Ring Up Market-Share Gains With Free Transactions | It must be the holidays. Just as it did last year, Google Checkout is trying to pay for market share in online payments. It is extending a “free transaction processing offer” until February 1, 2008. That means any merchant who uses Google C... |
| Nov 5, 2007 | Google Search Has 90% Market Share in France – Could This Happen Worldwide? | Our network blog AltSearchEngines reports that Google has around 90% search engine market share in France (well, 89.98% to be exact!). The next biggest is Yahoo ! (3.17%), followed by MSN (2.33%). Over the past year, between August 2006 and... |
| Oct 24, 2007 | Microsoft Beats Google on Facebook Deal; Valuation $15 Billion | We wrote earlier this morning that Google and Microsoft were competing for a stake in Facebook, the super-hot social networking platform. Earlier, the NY Post was reporting that Google was the frontrunner. But a WSJ report has now confirmed... |
| Oct 22, 2007 | Facebook didn’t dip: Comscore, Quantcast, Compete all wrong? | When respected traffic measurement company Comscore released data several days ago showing that Facebook’s U.S. visitors dropped more than 9.3 percent last month, it sparked widespread disbelief among bloggers and others. Facebook is hot, a... |
| Aug 22, 2007 | Roundup: Skype’s offer, Calacanis, Acoona, Zoho, Bluebet, Tafiti, WikiScanner, more | Here’s the latest action:
Skype trying to buy back customer love — Skype is sending out notes to users saying they’ll get a week’s worth of free service. The San Jose Internet phone company says it has 196 million users and reported earlier... |
| Jul 20, 2007 | Is Facebook Worth the Hype? | This was Facebook Week here at Read/WriteWeb, but I couldn’t help but notice how many other blogs wrote posts about Facebook this week as well. It seemed that almost every day there was a Facebook meme on Techmeme. Anecdotal evidence would ... |
| Apr 26, 2007 | Rich? Yes. Smart? Maybe… Internet speed record… More WiFi hotspots… Video on demand, in demand… | Rich? Yes. Smart? Not necessarily…
Researchers at Ohio State University in the US have found there is no link between high IQ and wealth, The Australian reports.
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| Apr 20, 2007 | Experian buys marketing intelligence firm Hitwise | Credit reference and analytics company Experian, of Costa Mesa, Calif., has acquired internet marketing intelligence firm Hitwise, of New York, for about $240 million in cash.
Hitwise collects information about traffic to Web sites, getting... |
| Dec 26, 2006 | comScore to take Web 2.0 seriously | reader comments with 0 posters participating
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| Nov 6, 2006 | Topix Raises $15m More for Local News Search | News search engine Topix.net has announced that has taken $15 million in additional funding from three large media companies, Tribune, Gannett and McClatchy. The company raised a round about 18 months ago for an undisclosed sum that was onl... |
| Oct 13, 2006 | Reflections: Ballmer, Parsons, Carr on why GooTube is too big | Before the Google-YouTube merger was announced, it didn’t sound ludicrous for Yahoo’s Terry Semel or Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer to speak boldly of competing against Google.
But Google has become so big, with advertisers willing to pay such a... |
| Sep 28, 2006 | Viral Video Chart | London-based, Unruly Media recently launched Viral Video Chart “the first chart to independently monitor the popularity of videos” from the world’s most influential video-sharing sites i.e YouTube, MySpace and Google Video. They tried looki... |
| Aug 31, 2006 | MySpace driving more retail traffic than MSN search | New Hitwise findings indicate that MySpace sent more US traffic to online retail sites last week than MSN search, the third largest search engine on the web. That’s big news, as it’s tangible evidence that youth oriented online social netwo... |
