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 »

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Facebook saw the number of visitors more than double in November 2009 compared to the same month in 2008. Read the rest of this entry »

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Eat your heart out H1N1, gatecrashers and Aretha’s hat. According to Global Language Monitor — an algorithms company who used their Predictive Quantities Indicator to find their results — “Twitter” is the most-used word of 2009. Read the rest of this entry »

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The crisis severely affected the entire media business, because of the decline in business activity, advertisers have sharply reduced their budgets. Read the rest of this entry »

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