Microsoft eclipses Yahoo in US search for 1st time January 11, 2012 6:24 PM ET By MICHAEL LIEDTKE SAN FRANCISCO (AP) – Microsoft Corp. has finally reached a long sought and expensive goal — its Bing search engine now ranks second behind Google in the Internet’s most lucrative market. Bing and Microsoft’s other websites fielded [...]

comScore Releases February 2011 U.S. Search Engine Rankings RESTON, VA, March 11, 2011 – comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released its monthly comScore qSearch analysis of the U.S. search marketplace. Google Sites led the explicit core search market in February with 65.4 percent of searches conducted. U.S. Explicit [...]

What to watch for at today’s Apple iPad event By Mark Milian, CNN March 2, 2011 10:40 a.m. EST San Francisco (CNN) — Apple got a huge head start in the touch screen tablet race with its iPad, but in recent months its rivals have begun catching up. Now Apple is hoping to widen its [...]

There is a Joke in Egypt about past leaders losing their Presidency and Mubarak today. Nasser, Sadat, Mubarak meet in the heavens and Nasser says “I resigned the Presidency of Egypt because of the Six Day War.” Sadat says “I lost the Presidency because I was assassinated.” They both ask Mubarak how he lost the [...]

Facebook launches pages redesign By Ben Parr, Mashable February 11, 2011 9:59 a.m. EST | Filed under: Social Media (Mashable) — Facebook has begun rolling out a full redesign of Facebook Pages. The changes will make the Pages look and operate more like user profiles. The new Pages redesign was first seen in December, when [...]

WordCamp Boulder 2010 was my first WordCamp event. As a web designer, SEO, and online strategy consultant, I found the sessions and opportunity to meet others in the industry to share ideas and information very useful. Even though you know much of the material already because you’re in the biz, there are always things you [...]

Identity theft hits record high Criminals use social networks, online transactions to gather victims’ information. By Elizabeth Strott on Wednesday, February 10, 2010 11:46 AM http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com/Investing/Dispatch/market-dispatches.aspx?post=1619799&_blg=1,1620847 More people in the United States are falling victim to identity fraud. A study by Javelin Strategy & Research showed that the number of victims jumped by 12% to [...]

SUNDAY, JAN 17, 2010 09:00 EST Smaller Startups to Fuel M&A Fire in Mobile Ads This Year BY COLIN GIBBS The mobile ad space continued to heat up last week with Amobee’s acquisition of RingRing Media, a 2-year-old London-based startup, for an undisclosed sum. The move surely isn’t anywhere near the magnitude of Google’s $750 [...]

YouTube Monetizing More than 1B Video Views Per Week By Liz Gannes Gigaom Network When will YouTube be profitable? “In the not-too-distant future,” said Google CFO Patrick Pichette on today’s quarterly earnings call, same as he said last quarter. He did offer a “sound bite” to appease investors and industry watchers: “We’re monetizing more than [...]

The wave of Internet advertising that locally focused media companies have been surfing for five years has now peaked, and some media companies are starting to eat sand. For the first time since they began selling online advertising more than a decade ago, sales are in decline for the majority of legacy media companies, but [...]