According to The Nielsen Company, global* consumers spent more than five and half hours on social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter in December 2009, an 82% increase from the same time last year when users were spending just over three hours on social networking sites. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: 2009, Blog, Facebook, instant messaging, online, site, social media, social network, Twitter, users

It was a big year for technology: Twitter and Facebook’s popularity exploded, while new smartphones, e-readers and a host of other gadgets cropped up to compete for our plugged-in affection. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: 2009, account, attack, Blog, company, computer, Conficker, e-mail, Facebook, fails, Gmail, Google, Google Wave, hacker, information, internet, iPhone, iPod, LiveJournal, Mashable, Media, member, Microsoft, online, service, site, smartphone, social media, TechCrunch, technology, Twitter, users, Web, worldwide, Zune

Some ancient gadgets quietly died a natural death. All of these pagers, handheld computers, floppy drives – they are no longer with us. Read the rest of this entry »

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With All the Talk of CPMs Going to Zero, Here’s a Survey of Who’s Commanding Top Dollar Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: advertisers, CPMs, Facebook, Media, network, Online ad, rate, site, Twitter, Web

A small Missouri company with the word “Bing” in its name has sued Microsoft for branding its search engine with the same word, alleging trademark infringement and unfair competition by the software giant. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: advertising, application, Bing, company, design, Microsoft, search engine, site, Web

Today is a partner of Yandex Advertising Network has become the company Microsoft with its major global search engine Bing.com. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: ads, advertising, Bing, Nielsen, RuNet, russia, search engine, site, Yandex, Yandex.Direct

The scale of a phishing attack originally thought to be directed at Hotmail may be larger than previously thought. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: account, addresses, attack, Blog, customers, e-mail, Gmail, Hotmail, install, links, login, Microsoft, offline, passwords, phishing, post, project, service, site, software, traffic, update, users, Website, Yahoo

A Russian Internet group, Digital Sky Technologies, has offered to invest $200 million in Facebook Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: company, Facebook, financial, investment, mail.ru, Microsoft, Reuters, russia, site, stock, users, Web

The new report describes the company Yandex search behavior of users of the largest sites on which set of search engine Yandex. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: internet, mail.ru, QIP, queries, report, requests, RuNet, Search, search engine, site, Ukr.net, users, words, Yandex, yandex.ru

Social network Vkontakte acquired the domain name vk.com. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: Belarus, domain, Facebook, languages, market, MySpace, network, RuNet, russia, site, social networks, Ukraine, users, Vedomosti, vk.com, Vkontakte, world