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Adobe Achieves Revenue Record

A good nine out of ten recent stock-related stories have been negative; words like "decline," "sink," and "plummet" are getting used a lot.  Adobe's bucking the trend, though, with a late and quite positive fourth-quarter financial report.

Mobile Music Revenue To Reach $11 Billion

Spending on mobile music is on track to hit $11 billion and account for 30 percent of worldwide-recorded music revenue by 2011, projects Understanding & Solutions. Mobile music currently accounts for 13 percent of global recorded music revenue. "Alongside online, mobile music is essential to the future of the music industry," says Understanding & Solutions Consultant, David Sidebottom.

YouTube Expands Partner Program

Thanks to an expansion of the YouTube Partner Program, video makers’ odds of earning money on the video-sharing site just got a little better; partners will actually be included in the ad revenue-sharing process.

Search Spam Primer

Every Internet marketer has heard about search spam, the unethical tactics that so-called "black hat" search marketers use that violate the search engines' terms of service. Now if you have no intention of doing anything unethical, you might believe that you don't need to understand search spam.

AdSense Video in UK, Ireland, Canada

As soon as news reached that AOL released Video Ticker there also was an announcement that Google will be introducing AdSense Video Units to Canada, the UK & Ireland. AOL's VIDEO TICKER ADS:

Internet Ad Revenue Tops $5.2 Billion

Big bucks continued to roll into online advertising as the Interactive Advertising Bureau reported third quarter numbers for 2007 that beat last year's figures by 25.3 percent.

AOL, LookSmart Harbinger Of Ad Weakness

While Google's shares skate above $700, troubling results at smaller online ad competitors hint at a turbulent future.

Mozilla Can Walk Away From Google's Cash

The Mozilla Foundation has tucked away enough money that they can do without Google's immense influx of revenue, courtesy of Google's default search position in the Firefox browser.

The Facebook Feeding Frenzy

More Investor Cash for Facebook... Yesterday we learned that Microsoft bought 1.6% of Facebook for $240 Million. Today there is another large investment - it’s been rumored that Facebook got an additional $500 million from two New York hedge funds.

Mozilla's Top Revenue's From Google

Mozilla CEO Mitchell Baker in a blog post writes: Mozilla’s revenues (including both Mozilla Foundation and Mozilla Corporation) for 2006 were $66,840,850, up approximately 26% from 2005 revenue of $52,906,602. As in 2005 the vast majority of this revenue is associated with the search functionality in Mozilla Firefox, and the majority of that is from Google.