Social network Google+, which turned a year old at the end of June, has seen its user base take a dramatic jump in the past six to seven months, according to comScore, an Internet traffic monitor. According to comScore, total unique ...
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Google and the European Commission appear close to a settlement that would end the ommission's investigation of the Internet giant for potential violations of European antitrust regulations, according to a Commission spokesman. "We have ...
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Just having logged its one billionth user, Facebook now is looking forward to its biggest money-making strategy: mobile. However, that won't be an easy task for the social networking company. While figuring out how to make money off of ...
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Answering critics who said Google+ was among the walking dead, Google this week announced that it has some 100 million active users among the 400 million that have signed up for the social network that turned a year-old in June. The ...
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$33.8bn has already been spent online this holiday season According to figures from internet analytics firm comScore, shoppers spent a record $1bn online on four separate days. As consumers increasingly access the internet on-the-go ...
Facebook is moving to fix one of its biggest problems - finding ways to make money from its growing base of mobile users. The social network Wednesday said that it's trying out a new mobile ad system and is calling on Facebook app ...
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Samsung remained the most popular phone maker in the U.S. in the third quarter, but Apple is slowly closing in, the latest comScore MobiLens report finds. With a couple of successful smartphones under its belt this year, such as the ...
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The Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) has developed a standard for handling 2D barcodes that it hopes will direct mobile phone users to websites more easily. By standardizing the specification for encoding, decoding and resolution of 2D barcodes, ...
Instagram has seen a huge spike in popularity among mobile device users over the past six months, pushing it past Twitter for the first time. Instagram, which is just two years old, went from 886,000 daily mobile users in March to ...
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Four leading executives from US big data and analytics companies tell a similar story of imminent increased big data analytics adoption in the UK and Europe.Senior executives from MapR,Cloudera,ParAccel,and Pentaho traced out the likely ...
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Despite needing each other, Twitter and Instagram are feuding, and Instagram has gone so far as to disable an integration tool, leaving pictures difficult to view on Twitter. In a status update on its site Wednesday, Twitter reported that ...
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Apple retained its stranglehold on mobile shopping over the two-day stretch of Thanksgiving and Black Friday in the U.S.,IBM said last weekend. More than three-fourths of all mobile traffic to online retailers during those two discount ...
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Not waiting until Cyber Monday,online shoppers made Black Friday the biggest online spending day of the year so far. On Black Friday--the marketing term given for the day after Thanksgiving,generally one of the biggest shopping days of ...
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Apple's iPhone share of U.S.smartphone subscribers bumped upward 2 percentage points from May through July,giving it 33.4%of the market,online tracking and analytics firm comScore said Tuesday. The increase could be attributed to broad ...
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U.S.tablet buyers were most influenced by the availability of applications and device price during the second quarter,according to a survey conducted by comScore. The market research company questioned 6,000 U.S.tablet owners,and divided ...
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