By Liz Gannes Jan. 15, 2010, 1:47pm Important Points Yahoo wants to aggregate its users’ activities from around the web. At the center of Yahoo’s new open social strategy, is a product called Yahoo Updates. Yahoo users’ primary mode is consumption. The beauty of the Yahoo Updates product is that it isn’t really a product. [...] Read more »
Mobile Applications for Real Estate Go Beyond Search
The latest phone apps and mobile sites include social-networking features and even suggestions for the best places to shop. By Alex Veiga LOS ANGELES — Hunting for a home or apartment on the go seems to get easier with every new mobile-phone application. The latest apps and mobile sites include social-networking features and even suggestions [...] Read more »
High-Tech Paid-Search Spend Up 17% in 4Q09
Published on January 14, 2010 Paid-search spending worldwide by US-based high-tech and consumer-electronics advertisers grew 16.6% in the fourth quarter of 2009 over third-quarter levels, after having grown 7.7% in the third quarter, according to a study from Covario. Due in large part to a growing demand for ad space by consumer electronics companies during the [...] Read more »
Bing’s Dip Could Be a Blip or Oncoming Trouble
On Jan. 13, Nielsen offered up its December 2009 data for the U.S. search market, finding that Google held 67.3 percent of that market, with Yahoo following at 14.4 percent and Bing in third with 9.9 percent. Granted, this is just one research firm’s report, which will most likely vary from reports by other firms, [...] Read more »
Gartner: Not Long Before Mobile Internet Access Exceeds Access via PCs
If your website isn’t already optimized for access via mobile devices then it’s about time you started the process. According to new research from Gartner, mobile phones will overtake PCs as the most common website access devices in the world in the next three years. by Helen Leggatt Last year, The Nielsen Company found that [...] Read more »
