Los Angeles -- Hitwise, a market analytics firm that tracks online stats, has some good news for the team at Facebook. The popular social-networking entity Facebook hit an audience milestone recently when it was crowned as the most visited site in the U.S., for the first time on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, topping Google, according to research firm Hitwise.
Those two days mark the first time Facebook has historically gotten a traffic spike during the holidays. It seems that people flocked to Facebook to send season's greetings to friends and families, and all of that traffic catapulted the popular social networking site to the most visited site on the Internet. This was a first for the site in its history according to the statistics tracking company Hitwise.
Washington -- Two consumer groups requested the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on Monday to bar the global online search and advertising giant Google's proposed acquisition of mobile advertising company AdMob, a provider of advertising services for mobile phones, citing potential damage on antitrust grounds and to address privacy issues raised by the deal to users, advertisers and application developers.
San Francisco -- Famed open source web browser, Firefox, looks to have a bit of a change of plans. Mozilla's next outburst in the browser wars originally intended to be released before the end of 2009, but now it would not come quite as soon as the company previously promised. Mozilla has pushed back the release of future Firefox versions.
Los Angeles -- Popular micro-blogging website Twitter is acquiring the location tracking start-up “Mixer Labs,” in an attempt to enable users to map their Twitter posts to specific locations on maps and other tools, for an undisclosed sum.
Los Angeles -- In a relentless race for market share, Mozilla's Firefox 3.5 has managed to overtake Microsoft's Internet Explorer 7 as the most popular single version web browser, at least according to one statistical snapshot of which browser versions Web surfers use.
San Francisco -- Privacy advocates are grousing about Facebook's recent privacy changes effected since the second week of December has had scores of users of the world's biggest online social network up in arms now calling on the US Federal Trade Commission to make Facebook undo the changes in an official complaint.
San Francisco -- MySpace Music, a joint venture between MySpace and the major labels, on Tuesday announced that it has agreed to acquire “certain assets” of the cash-crunched popular social networking site Imeem and is weaving it into the social networking community to capitalize on the biggest one: users.
New York -- After years of stalling efforts to offer music fans the power to “rent” music instead of buying downloads, finally Apple is joining the party. Apple, earlier this week confirmed the acquisition of popular online music service Lala into the streaming music business, adding to its arsenal the ways it could offer music to users.
San Francisco -- If a French court has its way, online auction giant eBay Inc. will soon have to pay dearly around $2.6 million for marketing a French Perfume. The fine stems from a ban on the sale (or purchase) of LVMH goods, by the Commercial Court in Paris for failing to meet the terms of an earlier ruling, which prevented sales of certain perfume brands to French consumers on its website. The company said the ruling “hurts consumers” and effectively enforces restrictive distribution contracts “which are anti-competitive”.
Beijing, China -- The ever growing high-tech industry have agreed that the mobile market is key in China. Baidu, which is trying to fend off a challenge from Google, which is playing greater role in introducing its web experience into phones in the Chinese mobile search market, is rolling out a new mobile service application that it will pre-install on handsets, which it describes as the “most important product in its mobile strategy,” into the fastest growing China's mobile search market.
New Delhi, India -- Much has been written about the young generation joining Facebook. And undoubtedly, today it is the fastest growing
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Redmond, Washington -- After cannibalizing Live Search and additional brands attached to the moniker utilized for Microsoft's former search engine, Bing now swallowed MSN Video. Microsoft on Wednesday unveiled
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San Francisco -- Just in time with the availability of the Motorola Droid and the HTC Eris at Verizon Wireless stores today, Adobe Systems on Friday launched a new
Los Angeles -- A U.S. District Court in San Jose, California, on Thursday awarded Facebook $711 million in civil damages against Sanford Wallace, the infamous self proclaimed “spam king” who is also famed by the disrespectful nickname “Spamford.” The court found Wallace guilty of violating the CAN-SPAM act, and he could face time in prison if convicted.
Los Angeles -- Facebook head of communications Elliot Schrage
San Jose, California -- Last month, desktop-publishing and graphic software maker Adobe Systems Inc. agreed to acquire web analytics specialist Omniture, for approximately $US1.8 billion in cash. Today the company declared the successful completion of the tender offer for all outstanding shares of common stock of Omniture, Inc. at a price of $21.50 per share, net to the seller in cash, without interest. The offer was completed by its direct wholly owned subsidiary, Snowbird Acquisition Corp. and expired yesterday at 12:00 midnight, New York City, New York time.
San Francisco -- On the heels of one fake Facebook pishing scam, a new computer virus gangs are bombarding Facebook members with targeted fake emails, using the popular social-networking websites brand to trick unsuspecting users into downloading potentially vicious malware hoping to get control of members' Facebook and other accounts -- a rising type of cybercrime. “Bredolab” Trojan lets cyber criminals control personal computers, reaches at least 735,000 users.
Mumbai, India -- Following a huge surge in Twitter traffic since the start of this year, Twitter is teaming up with Bharti Airtel, India's largest telecom service provider is launching tweetSMS, that will allow its subscribers to send Tweets at standard rates and receive Tweets directly to your phone for free, Twitter co-founder Biz Stone wrote in a
San Francisco -- Adobe Systems last week surprised the some of the experts in designing industry when it rolled out its popular Photoshop app for iPhone and iPod Touch users that enables them to edit photos from both their phone and their online library on