Articles tagged with: users
Yahoo email service is leading the market
Yahoo’s email service dominates the web-mail market with the highest number of email users, monthly minutes spent per user and times users check mail, according to data from comScore (via a New York Times blog …
Yahoo’s email service dominates the web-mail market with the highest number of email users, monthly minutes spent per user and times users check mail, according to data from comScore (via a New York Times blog …
Brazilian e-commerce is rising
Consumers in Brazil will spend BRL8.5 billion ($5.9 billion) online this year, according to e-bit. E-commerce in Brazil, like so many other key Internet metrics in that country, is maturing fast. Between 2001 and 2007, …
Online advertising slows as privacy issues are rising
It sounded like a winning proposition — free money — for Internet access providers.By tracking their subscribers’ personal Web surfing habits, they could help deliver ads targeted to the consumers’ interests, and claim a share …
eBay launches international advertising division
Advertisers are increasingly attracted to advertising on eBay and eBay is increasingly happy to accommodate them, much to the chagrin of some of its sellers.To this end, the auction site is setting up an International …
myYearbook social network rising
myYearbook, a social network for teenagers that launched in 2005, has raised $13 million in a Series B funding round led by Norwest Venture Partners, US Venture Partners, and First Round Capital. The new round …
Text Messages more efficient in Mobile Advertising
Mobile advertising has been the next big thing for a while now. But although text messaging is popular among young adults, the 160-character format has yet to become a mass influencer. Still, consumers who respond …
New facebook layout is adopted by 5% of user base
As a heads up to developers, Facebook noted today that 5% of users have now migrated over to the redesigned version of the site. Some users are opting in, and other users are reporting being …
Facebook integrates Microsoft Live Search
According to a comment made at Microsoft’s Analyst Day today, Microsoft and Facebook are preparing a search and advertising deal that would lead to the integration of Microsoft’s Live Search and search advertising into Facebook. …
Brands Get Social for Olympics
With the Olympic Games just a month off, some brands are looking to extend their sponsorships with social media programs. Lenovo has created 100 athletes’ blogs in an attempt to align itself with some less …
MySpace’s 200M user IDs join Yahoo’s 250M accounts
MySpace will announce support for the OpenID single sign-on framework sometime this week. This will be the second largest implementation ever and will bring the total number of OpenID-enabled accounts to over half a billion. …
iPhone facebook app 1.1 released
Facebook has taken a lot of user feedback into account regarding their initial launch of the Facebook for iPhone application 1 week ago and released version 1.1 today. New features include:
writing on friends’ walls
viewing …
