Facebook is a dominant presence on the internet and around the world, but that dominance may be greater than nearly anyone could have imagined. Traffic to the huge social network now accounts for nearly…
Dell (NYSE: DELL) reported especially strong earnings for its last quarter. Revenue was up 19% to $15.4 billion. Net income rose 144% to $822 million. CEO Michael Dell was bold to say “Our strong results…
The day on which the promise of online video is fulfilled has still not come. New comScore data shows that YouTube, which has still not found a business model, dominated the use of internet-based…
There is a rumor that Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) will layoff 20% of its workforce or 20% of the workforce in one of its divisions. Neither may be true. Yahoo! has become the target of…
The Queen of England has launched her own Facebook page–at 83 years of age. It is called “The British Monarchy” and is filed with pictures and videos of the Queen along with a number…
Facebook says it will allow local retailers to send offers to users. The “Deals” service is based on Facebook technology which allows members to share their locations via their cellphone GPS systems–something that their…
Twitter has begun to sell ads. These will appear in the streams of tweets that go back and forth between subscribers. Twitter faces the same questions that Facebook does now that the largest social…
Several internet analysts believe that Twitter will have 200 million registered users by the end of 2010, which would put it on an extraordinary growth rate much like Facebook’s. Analysts are also quick to…
Digg.com was once so important to web 2.0, the spread of information and social media behavior that its executives were often interviewed about the future of news on the internet. Jay Adelson, who founded…
The Sex.com domain sold for $13 million. Clover Holdings, based on the island of St. Vincent, made the winning bid. No one knows why. The BBC reports that “The sex.com domain has changed hands…
The search engine as a key part of the internet was born with the products of companies such as Altavista back in the late 1990s. The usefulness of search to consumers advanced as Yahoo!…
The penetration of the Internet may be high in the US, but it is not used nearly as much as in China and the Middle East. Essentially, Americans presence online does not affect personal…
Research In Motion (NASDAQ: RIMM) unveiled a new professional-grade BlackBerry PlayBook tablet and BlackBerry Tablet OS. Measuring less than half an inch thick and weighing less than a pound, the BlackBerry PlayBook features a…
Texas Instruments saw its shares rise in the after-hours on Thursday on word of a dividend hike and a monster share buyback plan. Frankly this may be the wrong path for the time being…
Facebook users spent more time using the social network than people spent on Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) in August, according to research firm comScore. Among all internet users in the US, the total number of…