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Bing Overtakes Yahoo! Search Share
10th February 2012
comScore has released the search share figures for the month of January 2012 for the U.S. market. According to their analysis, Bing has now taken a lead over Yahoo! in the search share. More »
Microsoft Is Google’s Biggest Competitor In Online Video
23rd March 2011
A report released by comScore has shown that in the month of February, there have been a lot of changes in the rankings of the top ten of online video sites in the USA. More »
AOL To Acquire Huffington Post
8th February 2011
AOL Inc. has just announced that they will soon acquire one of the most popular online blogs, The Huffington Post. More »
Goodbye Propeller
29th September 2010
AOL-owned social news site Propeller.com has recently announced that the site will soon be shutting down. More »
Microsoft, Yahoo! Allow Users To Choose Ads
16th August 2010
Internet users often have to wait through pre-roll ads or look past overlay ads when they want to watch online video. This can be quite irritating to some users. Microsoft and Yahoo! are reportedly thinking of ways to make this less of an irritation. More »
AOL Shopping For New Search Partner
9th June 2010
Rumours have been doing the rounds regarding a possible deal between AOL and Microsoft. AOL’s Chief Executive, Tim Armstrong, has said that the company is in talks for a new search deal. Their current deal with Google is due to end shortly. More »
AOL To Sell Bebo
9th April 2010
AOL bought the social network Bebo in 2008 for $850 million. However, the network has not been doing too well and has been losing ground against its more popular competitors. It is believed that AOL is likely to sell the social network or shut it down. More »
AOL Ranked Top US Ad Network
22nd January 2010
According to data released by comScore, AOL Advertising was the top ad network in the USA in December 2009. ComScore’s reasearch results show that AOL Advertising had access to 187 million U.S. Internet users. More »
Microsoft Users Click More
14th December 2009
Data released by advertising network Chitika should be of great interest to online marketers and advertisers. Their research revealed that Microsoft users tend to click more on ads than users of other operating systems, search engines and browsers. More »
AOL Shutting Down Mobile Ad Networks
24th September 2009
If the latest buzz in the mobile industry is to be believed, AOL seems to be getting ready to shut down their mobile advertising network. More »
Google Launches New DoubleClick Ad Exchange
18th September 2009
While plain text ads are very popular on the Google Content Network and form a very important part of the AdWords online advertising platform, display ads still lag far behind in popularity. Google’s new Ad Exchange hopes to change this. More »
Google Annihilates Microsoft, Yahoo! In Mobile
8th July 2009
If Global Stats from StatCounter are to be believed, Microsoft and Yahoo! might as well pack their bags and say goodbye to mobile search, because Google reportedly owns 97% of the market. More »
Yahoo! Tops Mobile Search Site Benchmark
23rd April 2009
Growth in mobile Internet access and the number of users perform search operations on their mobile phones has prompted dotMobi and Gomez Inc. to create the world’s first Mobile Web Benchmark Series, to rank the leading mobile sites with regards to their efficiency for customer operations. More »
US Search Engine Market Share Data – Jan 2009
25th February 2009
According to the latest qSearch analysis of the major U.S. search engines carried out by comScore, search continues to grow and little has changed in terms of market share of the top 5 search providers. More »
AOL Rumoured To Sell Bebo
29th January 2009
The latest rumors doing the rounds are that AOL may be planning to sell Bebo for about $200 million, less than a year after it acquired the social network for $850 million. More »
Yahoo! To Axe 1500 More Jobs
22nd October 2008
Gloomy forecasts and plummeting bottom lines have led to the once giant of online advertising and search to announce 1,500 more job cuts this year, bringing the total to 2,500 employee lay-offs. More »
Live Search Maps Tries To Turn The Heat On Google
3rd October 2008
The Virtual Earth team at Microsoft has updated their platform and also added some interesting and useful new features to it in an attempt to improve the Live Search Maps offering and make it more competitive with Google Maps. More »
Google Has The Best Maps
2nd October 2008
According to the results of a survey conducted by analysts, Cowen & Co., which were released on Monday, Google Maps has left its competitors far behind in the race. More »
Yahoo! Talking Merger With AOL
25th September 2008
Following all the hullabaloo after the Yahoo! board of directors refused Microsoft’s offer to buy them over, and the threats led by investor Carl Icahn, to replace the entire board of Yahoo!, the headless chicken that is Yahoo! is now looking at merging with another collossal sinker, AOL. More »
Impending AOL Split Now Official
8th August 2008
Since the beginning of the year we have heard off and on that AOL’s access and media units are likely to be split. This has now been confirmed by none other than CEO, Jeff Bewkes, while releasing the financial results of the company for the second quarter of the year. The process is expected to start early next year. More »
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