Google (GOOG) is still trying to break the hold that Baidu (BIDU), the Chinese search engine has on its local market. The US company is not having much success. The Chinese government…
According to comScore, "online retail spending was strong on both Thanksgiving Day (up 29 percent to $272 million) and “Black Friday” (up 22 percent to $531 million), outpacing the season-to-date growth rate."…
Wall St. broadly accepts that the next frontier for online search and web use will be the cellphone. That assumes, of course, the consumers want to use tiny screens to access the…
Targeting advertising based on the behavior of web surfers is "Holy Grail" for internet marketing. TV, radio, and print cannot effectively look at past actions and then place ads based on future…
In October, Google (GOOG) expanded its search share in the US moving further ahead of Yahoo! (YHOO) and Microsoft (MSFT) according to comScore data. Share of Searches (%) …
According to ValleyWag, the Microsoft (MSFT) Zune has the top spot among digital media players on Amazon (AMZN). That would put it ahead of the Apple (AAPL) iPod for the first time.…
Percentage of U.S. Searches Among Leading Search Engine Providers Domain Oct.-07 Sept.-07 Oct.-06 www.google.com 64.49% 63.55% 60.94% search.yahoo.com 21.65% 22.55% 22.34% search.msn.com 7.42%* 7.83%* 10.72%* www.ask.com 4.76% 4.32% 4.34% Note: Data is…
As far as investors are concerned, today’s Hewlett-Packard (NYSE:HPQ) announcement is perhaps the single largest investment event for investors who have been trying to figure out if they can really hide their…
According to Reuters, some auto industry experts think car sales could hit a 15-year low in 2008. Reuters reports that the OPEC summit ended with members disagreeing about what to do about…
Since Microsoft (MSFT) first launched its Zune portable multimedia player over a year ago, there has been no good news. Most research puts it in fourth place in sales among similar devices,…
Americans have certain rights. Among them are to own a car and have a square meal everyday. Most, but not all citizens enjoy those things. Now, Nintendo wants to add to that…
Someone at Microsoft (MSFT) spent too long in the sun and baked his brain. The world’s largest software company says that it plans to be one of the two largest players in…
According to Reuters, the pace of capital spending in China rose quickly, making a rate increase likely. Reuters writes that an investigation into the finances of Fannie Mae (FNM) is likely after…
It appears that a number of enterprise users of Microsoft (MSFT) Windows may complete skip Vista and wait for the next OS release in two years. InfoWorld writes "with Microsoft planning to…
Douglas A. McIntyre It would be nice to think that John Thain, wonder boy from Goldman Sachs (GS) and NYSE (NYX) can do a lot over the next couple of months to "fix" Merrill Lynch…