Business Archive

0March 09, 2010
Hollywood 2009 By The Numbers
Now that the Academy Awards are over, let’s take a look at last years business of film.
What were the top grossing films of 2009 (besides Avatar), and what were they rated? Who were the top earners? [...]
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1February 17, 2010
The Future of Print Publishing
Last week at TED Wired and Adobe unveiled the first glimpse of the Wired Reader on its debut platform, the iPad. Wired’s editor-in-Chief, Chris Anderson, breaks down the presentation:
“What Jeremy and I showed was not a CGI demo or concept — it was running live code with real copy. The content was created [...]
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0January 24, 2010
‘New Creation’ Launch + Earnings = Big Week For Apple
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Few events can steal the thunder from an Apple quarterly earnings day. Maybe only an Apple product launch.
The company releases quarterly results on Monday, but Wall Street is waiting for Wednesday, when Apple could unveil a new tablet computer that investors hope will be as huge a phenomenon as its iconic iPod and iPhone. The invitation to press merely says [...]
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1January 12, 2010
The Apple App Store Economy
The world of Mobile Apps is a burgeoning marketplace, with the obvious leader (and App Store creator) being Apple. This infograph provides a brief overview on just how successful their App Store is.
With over 56 Million users, and currently more than 130,000 Apps available for download… 200 Million Apps are being downloaded each month, generating more than $500 Million in revenues [...]
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0January 10, 2010
The Future Internet: Service Web 3.0
With over a billion users, today’s Internet is arguably the most successful human artifact ever created. The Future Internet, an initiative driven by the European Union, has become a prime research focus of STI International and the Service Web 3.0 project. In order to explain, promote, and attract new contributors, we created a video to be viewed by stakeholders, who may be non-experts, in a new [...]
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0January 06, 2010
Google’s Nexus One Mobile Phone
We’ve all heard about it, read about it and perhaps have even seen it. It’s the new Nexus One Mobile Phone the from Google.
So far, since yesterday’s release, it’s been extremely well received. From the pics and specs above, the praise seem to be justified. The Nexus One is indeed a beautiful piece of equipment and should give some smart phones a good run for their money. [...]
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0January 05, 2010
Online Video Continues To Surge
November Sees Number of U.S. Videos Viewed Online Surpass 30 Billion for First Time on Record
Hulu Extends All-Time High to 924 Million Videos Viewed
RESTON, VA, January 5, 2010 – comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released November [...]
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0December 22, 2009
Top Mobile Phones, Sites & Brands in 2009
From Nielsen Wire:
The iPhone and various Blackberry handhelds dominated the mobile device market, while Google, Yahoo! and YouTube led the way as far as most accessed sites and brands on the mobile web. [...]
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0December 20, 2009
The Internet: Past, Present & Future
As seen from comScore, and several notable users, celebrating 10 years of digital market intelligence.
This 6 minute video interviews industry luminaries including John Battelle, Mark Cuban, Wenda Harris Millard, and many more to explore how the internet has changed their lives over the past ten years. Highlighting what they were doing online in 1999, we quickly [...]
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0December 16, 2009
Facebook’s Road To An IPO
With the recent introduction of a dual-class stock structure emulating that of Google, rumors of an impending Facebook IPO abound. Though nothing has been officially announced, it seems a likely possibility in 2010. Below we look at the ever-changing and often controversial valuation time line of one of the web’s most popular [...]
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