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The US Isn’t Ready To Give Up On ITU Talks Just Yet

The US Isn’t Ready To Give Up On ITU Talks Just Yet

By Zach Walton December 10, 2012

As the ITU talks continue this week, one of the most worrisome proposals has been shelved. The proposal in question would have allowed nations like Russia, China and Saudi Arabia more say in how the Internet is governed. Despite that …

Will Google Phone Bring Spotify to the US?
By · January 4, 2010

Even if you haven’t used Spotify, there’s a good chance you’ve heard of it. The service’s description goes: "A world of music. Millions of songs on your computer, on your mobile and available offline. Brought to you ad free."

Business
Top 10 Most Spammed States in the US
By · September 24, 2009 · 7 Comments

Symantec’s MessageLabs revealed a list of the most spammed states in the US today, with some somewhat surprising results. And the award for state that receives the most spam is…Idaho.

Business
UK News Sites Getting Big Traffic from US
By · September 22, 2009 · 2 Comments

British news sites are starting to see a lot more traffic from the US. UK Internet visits to News and Media websites grew by 8% last year according to Hitwise, and US Internet visits to UK News and Media sites have gone up by 54%.

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Facebook Has Hit The ‘Cash Positive’ Mark
By · September 17, 2009

Facebook is still growing. They’re now at 300 million members—you know, roughly the population of the US. But unlike the US, Facebook has also entered the world of “free cash flow positive.”

Social Media
Facebook Is Now Ahead Of MySpace In The US and Globally
By · June 16, 2009
New data from ComScore shows Facebook passing MySpace in total unique US visitors for the first time in May. Facebook had 70.28 million U.S. users in May beating MySpace’s 70.26 million. According to ComScore, Facebook users almost doubled from last year while MySpace lost 5%.

The story is much the same worldwide with 123.9 million unique visitors globally visiting Facebook in May beating MySpace’s 114.6M Facebook had 50.6 billion page views compared to MySpace’s 45.4 billion.

Social Media
Online Video Viewing Increases By 16% In The US
By · June 9, 2009
April 2009 data from the comScore Video Metrix showed that U.S.

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Click Fraud Is At An All Time High
By · January 29, 2009

Click Forensics has released a study showing that click fraud has hit 17.1%, an all-time high. For those of you who are unfamiliar, click fraud represents the act of clicking on a web advertisement to inflate click-through rates.

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Facebook Lowers Ad Cost With 32% Growth
By · November 10, 2008

Last week, we took a look at Facebook’s financials and wondered if the social networking giant is headed for financial ruin, despite—or even because of—118% worldwide growth, 32% US growth (monthly unique visitors). Many commentators argued that any company would be overjoyed with even 32% growth. Unfortunately, that kind of thinking is the exact thinking that has brought Facebook to this point—and now Facebook’s ad rates have fallen 50%.

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China Produced More Web Traffic For Olympics Than The US
By · August 29, 2008

Daily online traffic on the web site of China’s largest broadcaster surpassed that of the leading U.S. broadcaster and online channel during the Olympics, according to WebTrends Analytics.

UK Receives More Blog Traffic Than The U.S.
By · June 10, 2008

Over the last 3 years, UK internet traffic to blogs and personal websites has grown by 208%, according to new data from Hitwise.

The web intelligence company has just released new data on blog readership in the United Kingdom which shows 1.19% of all UK web traffic flowed to a blog. (Not a single blog–that would be a great site to own–but to blogs in general)

Brits Pay 3x Less Than US For Telcom Bundles
By · December 12, 2007

Britain edged out the US in broadband penetration for the first time in 2006, joining a host of other countries with better broadband access. It could have something to do with the fact that US households have to pay nearly three times as much.

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