Spending for online advertising grew 7.5 percent in the U.S. market in the first quarter 2010. Revenue reached US$5.9 billion, and it is the highest-ever revenue for a first quarter. Also, comScore reported that impressions of display web ads rose 15% in the first quarter 2010, and it hit a record $1.1 trillion.
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Google launched a new feature for Gmail that allows you to drag images from a computer into a message. You simply drag the image in, resize it, and send an email. Currently, the feature only works in one browser – Google Chrome, a support for other browsers will come soon.
On Tuesday Reuters will launch a new website, called Reuters Insider (etv.thomsonreuters.com). It will be a website with video reports from Reuters reporters and a number of media partners and financial analysts. According to the NY Times, Thomson Reuters is spending about $100 million to launch this website. Thomson Reuters expects that its new website
Apple announced that iPad will be available in nine more countries on May 28. Those countries are: Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, Switzerland and the UK. Customers in all nine countries can pre-order all iPad models from Apple’s online store beginning on Monday, May 10. In the US, Apple has already sold over
We updated statistics of Search Engine Market Share. We can see Google has 86.30% search engine market share, it is grow from last month when Google has 85.75%.
The Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice have received complaints (from a person who asked to remain anonymous) about Apple’s new iPhone policy. Agencies are exploring now whether to open an antitrust inquiry into Apple. The problem is restricting developers writing apps for its iPhone operating system and do not allow developers to
Three websites which belong to the U.S. Department of the Treasury have been hacked and the code of those websites have been infected with malicious software. As we remember not so long time ago hackers attacked Network Solutions’ servers. High activity of hackers nowadays should make all of us think more seriously about security of
Apple announced in its press release that the company “sold its one millionth iPad on Friday, just 28 days after its introduction on April 3.” We can also read that there are now more than 5,000 apps for iPad in the Apple’s App Store and users have downloaded more than 12 million copies of apps
Global sales of smartphones surged by 50% from 35.9 million units in 2009 to 54 million units in the first quarter of 2010. Smartphones now make up 18% of all mobile phone sales globally.Nokia has 40% global market share among all mobile phone makers, RIM has 20%, Apple with its iPhone 16% and Motorola has
