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Facebook And Twitter Growth Booming

The popularity of Facebook continues to increase with the site accounting for 58.59 percent of all U.S. visits among a custom category of 155 social networking websites in September 2009, according to a new analysis from Hitwise.
The 58 percent was the highest among all social networking sites, as U.S. visits to Facebook increased 194 percent [...]

Facebook Sees Big Growth In Search

In August 2009, Americans conducted more than 13.9 billion searches, with Google accounting for 64.6 percent of the search market, according to a new report from comScore.
Microsoft sites captured 9.3 percent of search share, a 0.4 percentage point gain compared to July.
Yahoo sites accounted for 19.3 percent of the search market, remaining unchanged month-over-month. Ask [...]

Facebook Mobile Hits 65 Million Users

Facebook has announced it now has more than 65 million users who access the site via mobile devices.
The growth rate is impressive, Facebook says eight months ago it had 20 million users accessing the site via mobile.
Facebook has two mobile sites, one which works on any mobile browser and one that is designed specially for [...]

Online Gambling Founder Pleads Guilty

Gary Kaplan, founder of BetOnSports.com, an offshore illegal gambling business plead guilty today in federal court to charges of conspiracy and violating the Wire Wager Act.
As part of the plea Kaplan will forfeit more than $43 million to U.S. officials. Kaplan had the money transferred from a Swiss bank account via wire to a U.S. [...]

Interactive TV Watch and Tweet, Check out Facebook

Verizon Wireless is forging the way in interactive TV experiences, adding an element of sociability to the TV viewing experience. FiOS TV, Verizon’s fiber optic television service that reaches over two million viewers, now offers a whole new level of viewing that involves downloading widgets—essentially programs for your TV. These widgets will include tools that [...]

Sony, IODA Partner On Digital Music Network

Sony Music Entertainment has announced it has entered into a partnership with IODA, a digital distributor of independent music.
As part of the deal Sony has made a strategic investment in IODA. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Sony’s own independent distribution subsidiary RED and IODA will build on their existing technologies and increase the scope [...]

Facebook Goes Twitter With a Real-time Comment Widget

In a move that looks and smells strangely like Twitter’s status feeds, Facebook has launched a new widget that may actually be better than Twitter’s status feeds. The new tool, the Live Stream Box, is intended for installation on any website, but particularly sites which are broadcasting a major event in real-time. According to Facebook’s [...]

U.S. Ad Spending Sees Q1 Drop

Overall U.S. advertising for the first quarter 2009 was down 12 percent compared to the first quarter of 2008, according to a new report from Nielsen.
Preliminary figures show that U.S. ad expenditures declined $3.8 billion to a total spend of $27.9 billion in the first quarter.
All measured media showed negative growth in this challenging economy, [...]

Report: Smartphone Market Share And Mobile Web Usage

Mobile advertising platform, AdMob has released a report that compares smartphone market share to mobile Web usage and found that smartphones accounted for nearly 3 times more usage than their relative market share in April 2009.

The report also compared usage of mobile Web sites usage of HTML sites on mobile devices, finding that relative [...]

Elvis Gets iPhone App

If you are an Elvis fan then you might be “all shook up” over the release of Elvis Mobile, a free iPhone application for iPhone and iPod Touch users.
 
Elvis Mobile is available through the iTunes App Store. Features of the app allow fans to view newly released pictures and videos, listen to podcasts [...]