Business Archive

• 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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• 0December 15, 2009

  Morgan Stanley’s Mobile Internet Report

  Today the good folks over at Morgan Stanley released Mary Meeker’s amazing mobile Internet tome. It’s a wealth of information for all things related to the mobile web… stats, trends, forecasts and more. There are several versions since some may be a bit intimidated by the the full 694-page report.
  Below, I’ve included each version: The Mobile Internet Report [...]

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• 0November 23, 2009

  Videos Rise 98% on Social Networking Sites

  From Nielsen Wire:
  Facebook is Top Social Networking Destination by Video Streams for the 2nd Month in a Row in October
  Time spent viewing video on social networking sites increased 98 percent year-over-year, from 503.8 million minutes in October 2008 to 999.4 million minutes in October 2009, according to Nielsen. In [...]

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• 0November 05, 2009

  Online Video Stats For 2009 And Beyond

  Key Takeaways On The Future Of Online Video:
  Online video vs. television viewership
  As the stats below demonstrate, television still dominates online video in terms of the number of eyeballs, frequency and time viewed. However, viewer engagement is another story.
  * 2009’s online video viewership is estimated to be 144 million [...]

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• 1November 03, 2009

  EpixHD - An Epic #Fail

  This weekend I participated, albeit briefly, in the new full-length movie streaming service EpixHD Preview Weekend. It gave me a good opportunity to see what they’re offering, what the quality of the streams are like, and how it’s being delivered.

  If you’re not familiar with the recently launched Epix, the service is [...]

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• 0October 28, 2009

  Google Music Search Feature

  Today, Google announced their much anticipated Google Music Search Feature. From the looks of the video promo above, this could turn out to be a huge play for Google and their music partners. According to Google:

  Every day we get millions of search queries about music. You want [...]

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