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Google Adds Real Estate to Australian Maps

Over a year ago, Google started incorporating real estate search into Google Maps in the US. Now Australia gets the feature.

Marc Andreessen: Facebook To Make Over $500M This Year

Financially speaking, Marc Andreessen believes Facebook's on the right track.  Today, the man with ties to Netscape, AOL, and Ning - and who also happens to sit on Facebook's board - supplied some big figures with respect to the social networking company.

Amazon Ordered To Pay $119 Million In Taxes To Japan

Japan's tax authorities have ordered an affiliate of Amazon.com to pay $119 million in back taxes for unreported income earned it the country during a three year span that ended in 2005. U.S. companies that do business in Japan without branch offices are not required to file tax returns or pay taxes to the Japanese government.

Top 10 Subject Line Words That Get Opens

Email list manager provider MailerMailer released its bi-annual Email Marketing Metrics Report (pdf) recently. The report revealed what the company claims to be the most popular words used in subject lines, with regards to attracting readers to open the message. According to MailerMailer's report, the top ten words are:

YouTube Dominates Video In The U.K.

The total number of videos viewed online in the U.K. in April grew 47 percent over a year ago to 4.7 billion videos, according to a new report from comScore. The report found that 21.8 million U.K. Internet users viewed a total of 971 million online display ads on multimedia sites during the month. Google sites were the most popular U.K. online video property during the month with 2.4 billion videos viewed, an increase of 58 percent compared to a year ago, driven by the popularity of YouTube, which accounted for 99 percent of all videos viewed on the property.

Is Bing Making Google Better?

Since Bing's launch, the search engine has garnered quite a bit of attention. This is no surprise since Microsoft invested so much money into marketing it. It may still be too early to tell, but it seems to be paying off so far. Bing's numbers have edged up since its launch.

Hulu Starts Sharing ABC Shows

A little more than three months ago, we learned of rumors that Hulu and ABC might partner.  About two months ago, they did.  And now, the arrangement's finally reached a stage at which real people can see the fruits, as ABC's content is becoming available on Hulu. "Grey's Anatomy" is the first show you'll be able to see, with five episodes from the most recent season online now.  Granted, this isn't a huge selection (and "Grey's Anatomy" may not be the ABC television series you've been dying to see more of, anyway), but it's a start.

Are Spammers Impeding Twitter Growth?

Over the weekend, Twitter found itself victim to the tomfoolery of 4chan as the online community's members apparently launched an initiative to make "#gorillapenis" a trending topic. They were successful, but Twitter of course responded by removing it from the trending topics. What is 4chan?

Online Advertising To Grow 10% In ‘09

Worldwide online advertising will grow 10 percent this year, accounting for 15.1 percent of global ad spending by 2011, according to a new report from ZenithOptimedia Group. The report said online advertising has performed better than what was forecast three months ago due to its transparency, accountability and flexibility. Online advertising is the only category forecast for growth in 2009.

2009 Not The Year Of Internet Explorer

Internet Explorer's days - or at least its days as king of the browser pile - may be numbered.  New statistics indicate that IE's market share has shrunk this year, and that its share is indeed now close to falling beneath the 50 percent mark.