Juniper Research has released a report that gives a forecast that by the year 2015 the global revenues from mobile games will surpass $11 billion. This figure is double the figure achieved in 2009. The research also indicates that in-game purchases are set to overtake the pay per download model. However, the ever growing number [...]
That emails from friends and family get more attention than emails from marketers comes as no surprise. Research from the Experian Marketing Services show that the offers that are forwarded by family and friends are opened more often and get higher click-through rates. Mail from friends and family out did commercial emails in many ways. [...]
Data from comStore shows that in the month of October 2010 Google emerged as the most popular website in U.S. The internet giant had 180.8 million visitors that month. Yahoo followed with 179.6 million visitors while Facebook took the fourth position coming after Microsoft Sites. Facebook.com got 151.1 million visitors. This was the first time [...]
Studies on search engine optimization show that certain words have the ability of boosting newspaper readership columns that are published online. Articles appearing online have to take into consideration the titles they use so as to increase readership. A Web search estimator in Google shows that certain keywords are likely to generate as many as [...]
A story by David Segal appearing on the New York Times highlights the fallacy of the “gold standard” search results from Google. In the story the writer shows how any publicity whether good or bad scores a win with the ranking algorithms. DecorMyEyes.com is an online eye glasses retailer that has a bad customer service [...]
So far the driving force behind social networking on Facebook is games. Unfortunately the games themselves do not offer much of a realtime social experience. However there is a small but still profitable social network site that is trying to make online games give users a more social experience. MyYearbook a network that focuses on [...]
A report released by Gartner gives a preliminary forecast that says there will be an increase of 14.3 PC shipment this year over 2009. It also says that 2011 is expected to sell 409 million PCs. Another finding was that people hold on to PCs for longer periods mainly due to the fact that there [...]
Verizon has bought “#CyberMonday” a promoted trend marking Cyber Monday which comes right after Black Friday. On Cyber Monday users search the net for holiday deals. The promoted trend on Twitter makes a sponsored Verizon Tweet appear when users click on CyberMonday. The tweet tells users of a Seasonal Surprises that will run for 24 [...]
Moontoast is a Nashville startup whose area of specialization is social commerce. The company founded two years ago works with artists and authors among others to create sales opportunities online. Followers and fans can have an opportunity to get exclusive access to concerts or merchandise. Moontaost’s technology has the ability to take and fulfill the [...]
Facebook has received enormous attention from all angles. There has been a book written about it, there is a movie and a lot of backlash directed to it. The many negative comments that are being directed to it are now stirring up many people in to trying to get startups to rival Facebook. Among the [...]
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