This holiday season online sales increased more than 15 percent. Online purchases represent only 3.3 percent ($451.4 billion) of total sales. However, this Christmas the growth of online purchases is expected to surpass in-store sales.
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Because of real time messaging, live chats, texting and Facebook (four billion messages daily) we send less e-mails than few years ago. According to data from comScore, the number of visitors using major e-mail sites like Yahoo and Hotmail is in steady decline. The only winner in that category is Gmail. Amount of Gmail users
Delicious was acquired by Yahoo in 2005. It is a website which allows users to share web bookmarks and discover new interesting websites. According to a recent blog post by Yahoo, Delicious was not a strategic fit for the company. However, Delicious will not be shutting down. Yahoo will try to sell the website.
Google is buying a 2.9 million square foot building at New York’s 111 Eighth Avenue. The building covers a city block between 15th and 16th Streets from 8 to 7 Avenues. The value of the place is about $1.9 billion. The building was originally built as the Port Authority Commerce Building in 1932, and it
The reason is that Groupon brings every year a revenue of $2 billion. There are also reports which predict that the website could file to go public next year.
eBay is acquiring a hopping search engine Milo.com for $75 million. The interesting fact in the story is that Milo CEO Jack Abraham is only 24 years old.
The video game “Call of Duty: Black Ops” is a new first-person shooter from Activision. It smashed a record by generating $650 million in worldwide sale in the first five days of release. Call of Duty: Black Ops was released simultaneously for the Sony PlayStation, Microsoft Xbox, Nintendo Wii and PC.
In March 2010 the market share of visits to Facebook.com surpassed Google.com. Facebook.com is constantly growing and today nearly 1 in 4 page views in the US take place on Facebook.com. According to weblogs.hitwise.com the market share of page views for Facebook.com is about 24% and it is almost4 times the volume of the 2nd
Steve Wozniak (Apple co-founder) in an interview with the Dutch-language De Telegraaf newspaper (in The Netherlands) said that even if iPhone “Has very few weak points” and “There aren’t any real complaints and problems. In terms of quality, the iPhone is leading”, “Android phones have more features,” and this qualified this phone to be in
As reported by Reuters, Microsoft sold 1 million units of Kinect in less than 2 weeks. Most likely Microsoft will sell even 5 million controllers by the end of the year The new device is a motion controller camera for the XBox 360. Kinect was launched in North America on November 4, 2010. Kinect is
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