One week after cutting 2,000 employees -- about 14% of Yahoo's workforce -- CEO Scott Thompson unveiled an internal overhaul aimed at streamlining the sprawling Internet portal.
Are you reading this article on your cell phone or tablet? These days, that makes you pretty normal, especially if you're American, according to a recent report from comScore.
Users spent just 3.3 minutes on Google+ in January compared to 7.5 hours for Facebook, according to a new comScore report.
In a smartphone world dominated by Google and Apple, Firefox browser maker Mozilla thinks it can offer something better.
It may not be over yet, but retailers are breathing a sigh of relief and celebrating a successful holiday season, thanks to a last-minute surge in sales.
updated: Wed Nov 30 2011 05:50:00
CNN's Christine Romans talks to author Martin Lindstrom on how not to get sucked into the retail machine this holiday.
Americans' clicking fingers must be sore.
After years of being more hype than highlight, Cyber Monday appears on its way to its biggest outing ever.
If your post-Thanksgiving shopping plans don't involve leaving the house, you're in increasingly good company. And Web sellers are saying, "Step right in."
updated: Sun Nov 27 2011 11:09:00
Marshall Cohen, chief industry analyst of the NPD Group, on whether Black Friday sales are best for holiday bargains.
A big push by big-box stores and online retailers to bring Black Friday to the web -- and to do so earlier than ever -- seems to have paid off this year.
Marissa Tarabocchia, a student at Villanova University in Pennsylvania, says she doesn't subscribe to any newspapers. Instead, she gets her news from the Web.
From humble feature phones to souped-up tablets, mobile devices have become a major player in America's media landscape. New research from comScore shows that nearly half of all Americans now access some kind of mobile media: browsing the mobile Web, using mobile apps or downloading content via a mobile device.
The news stormed across blogs and headlines this week: Facebook had become the first website to rack up a mind-boggling 1 trillion monthly page views.
If you've ever pretended to be talking on your cell phone to avoid talking to, or acknowledging, someone nearby -- you're not alone. One in 13 Americans have used this ploy, a new survey says.
After a running start, Google+'s growth may be slowing down a bit. A report from Experian Hitwise found both traffic and users' average time on the social network fell last week in the U.S.
updated: Tue Jul 12 2011 16:12:00
Justin Timberlake says no to a MySpace talent show, a fire stops a Rihanna concert, and a Hollywood baby boom.
Google went on the defensive about its business practices on Friday as it acknowledged that is the subject of a government probe.
Hulu is considering an unsolicited takeover offer, according to several news reports making the rounds on Wednesday.
People who regularly visit Myspace tend to be more open-minded, according to a study released Thursday.
The plain Google search box will soon be able to handle more than taps on a keyboard.
Google became a $30 billion company on the back of search advertising -- but the company thinks its other multi-billion-dollar advertising business will be its growth engine of the future.
Last week the news broke that the world's largest permissions-based e-mail marketing company, Epsilon, had been hacked -- compromising the security of an unknown number of e-mail addresses and names. Major companies with millions of customers, such as JP Morgan Chase and Target, sent e-mail notices alerting customers of the breach.
Despite online security concerns, the number of Americans who use mobile devices to access financial services is growing fast, according to new data from comScore.
After Gilt Groupies changed the 12 o'clock hour and Groupon made vouchers cool, users may finally be over it all.
Verizon said Tuesday that its first 4G smartphone, the HTC ThunderBolt, will be available in stores and online starting March 17 for $249.99 with a two-year contract.
updated: Sun Feb 13 2011 15:24:00
CNN's Howard Kurtz talks with Kara Swisher, Felix Salmon, and Mark Potts about AOL's purchase of Huffington Post.
This week comScore published its 2010 Digital Year in Review report, which covers topics ranging from e-commerce to consumer electronics.
E-mail is not usually considered as a form of mobile communication, but new research indicates that it might be time to rethink that.
Holiday shopping online was strong right through Christmas, with consumers spending a record $30.8 billion for the season, according to a research firm report issued Wednesday.
Online retailers continued to post big holiday sales numbers last week, with a jumpstart from a record-setting Cyber Monday, according to data released Wednesday.
updated: Wed Dec 01 2010 11:54:00
A personal finance expert shares tips on how to give and not break the bank this holiday season.
Yes, Virginia, there is a Cyber Monday.
Americans spent more than $1 billion on Cyber Monday, making it the biggest online shopping day in history, digital marketplace research firm comScore said Wednesday.
Online shoppers turned out in force on Cyber Monday -- the day after a strong holiday shopping weekend -- with a retail group predicting a 10% increase over last year.
Online sales increased on "Black Friday" this year, but not nearly as much as they did on Thanksgiving.
Five years ago, Shop.org published a press release:
Online sellers kick off the coming week with one of their biggest sales days of the year - Cyber Monday.
There's a photo-sharing website that, by some measures, is more popular than Flickr, Picasa and Photobucket combined.
Twitter's number of monthly unique visitors finally surpassed that of MySpace in August. Though it ranked third among social networking sites, Twitter ranked #50 in the list of top 50 properties overall. The numbers were crunched by the marketing research firm comScore.
We already know that Facebook is the web's biggest time sink. If you look at the average amount of time (according to Nielsen) users spend on the social network, Facebook is a clear winner over sites such as Google or Yahoo.
For years, Ask.com has basically been roadkill in the search-engine wars. Trailing way behind Google, Yahoo and Microsoft's Bing, it has a market share online data tracker ComScore estimates at just 3.6%.
It was the upstart rock star of the Internet in early 2009, roaring out of relative obscurity to become one of the most exposed -- some would say overexposed -- services on the Web.
Search engine wars are heating up.
In the latest sign of consumers in distress, online holiday sales registered a first-ever decline in seven years, according to sales tracker ComScore.
The online holiday shopping season unofficially began Monday, with analysts expecting a flat performance versus last year in the face of the weak U.S. economy.
Stores and online merchants were busier this weekend than they were a year ago, according to figures out Sunday, but signs persist that holiday shopping will suffer in the weakest economic climate in decades.
Growth in online spending in the U.S. slowed in the third quarter, according to a study released Friday, in yet another sign that the economic slowdown has caused the American consumers to pull back.
Last winter, when Google lost a third of its market value, analysts blamed a small web-research company based in Reston, Va., called ComScore. The firm had issued a report that said Google's domestic paid clicks - the number of times people click on an ad - had flattened. Analysts initially went berserk. Oh, my God! they gasped (we're paraphrasing here). Google's ad business is tanking!
Ask.com has bought a stable of Internet reference sites that includes Dictionary.com in its latest effort to distinguish itself from online search leader Google
New numbers point to more slowing in Google's search ad traffic - and analysts are adjusting their numbers down.
Think of it as Silicon Valley's seven-year itch. That's about the length of time needed for the typical investment, employment, and emotional bubble to inflate and then burst in the global center of the technology industry. The last bubble, known forever as the dot-com craze, started and ended in the Valley.
Some 35 million Americans have yet to start shopping for holiday gifts - meaning that the next seven days could make or break many retailers' Christmas season.
In the space of six months, startup social networking music site imeem has soared to the top of the charts.
updated: Tue Nov 27 2007 18:56:00
From free shipping to free food, there are some easy ways to save money this holiday season.
Online retailers were set to break one-day records for traffic and sales, as consumers hunted down Cyber Monday bargains.
More than half of those who downloaded Radiohead's payment-optional online album In Rainbows chose to pay nothing
How many people visited Yahoo in June? About 133 million in the U.S., says ComScore, a web measurement company. No, says its chief rival, Nielsen//NetRatings, it was 108 million. The difference - 25 million people - is hardly a rounding error. It's larger than the population of Texas.
Chain store sales jumped 1.1 percent last week, their biggest weekly gain in five months, indicating that the 2007 back-to-school season was off to a stellar start, according to an industry report Tuesday.
Much has been made about how the explosion in demand for online advertising has lifted the fortunes of companies like Google, Yahoo! and Barry Diller's IAC as well as perceived takeover targets like interactive ad agencies aQuantive and 24/7 Real Media.
Emigrant Savings Bank, owner of online bank Emigrant Direct, announced Thursday the launch of a Spanish-language bank to deepen its push into the online Hispanic market.
Online shopping jumped this past year as spending accelerated during the last two months of the holiday season, according to the latest report from market research firm ComScore Networks.
Online retail spending surged this holiday season and for the first time ever will top the $100 billion mark for the entire year, according to a report Friday.
Online shopping got a big late-season surge as many more holiday procrastinators turned to the Internet to wrap up their gift buying, according to the latest report from market research firm ComScore Networks.
Online shopping got a big late-season surge as many more holiday procrastinators turned to the Internet to wrap up their gift buying, according to the latest report from market research firm ComScore Networks.
With Christmas just four days away, the 2006 holiday shopping season is shaping up for a nail-biting finish after the latest industry survey released Monday showed millions of shoppers still haven't even started buying their gifts.
With Christmas exactly a week away, the 2006 holiday shopping season is shaping up for a nail-biting finish after the latest industry survey released Monday showed millions of shoppers still haven't even started buying their gifts.
With just two weeks to go until Christmas the nation's retailers should be getting worried that consumers have been slow to rev up the pace of their holiday shopping, industry experts said Monday.
Discounts abound, but holiday shoppers are still searching for a better deal - and they're holding off on their gift buying until those deals come along.
Total online purchases on Cyber Monday, one of the biggest shopping days for e-tailers, jumped 26 percent to a record $608 million, according to the latest numbers from ComScore Networks.
If you haven't already created a cyber profile on a social networking Web site like MySpace.com or Facebook.com, you're part of a rapidly shrinking minority.
Last month was a whirlwind month for initial public offerings, but June looks to be getting off to a quiet start.
Netizens 694 million
Did you do most of your holiday shopping online this year? Join the club.
Retail sales this weekend will be crucial as the holiday shopping season heads into what looks to be a nail-biting finish for the most important sales period of the year.
Tuesday is expected to be a very busy day for online shoppers and for cyber thieves, according to a published report.
Online shopping during this holiday season is up 23 percent from last year and is expected to reach a total of $19 billion, a research firm said Sunday.
Holiday online spending, excluding travel, jumped 24 percent over last year to $9.75 billion, according to a report Monday.
Online auctioneer eBay was the clear winner among e-tailers who garnered the most traffic this week on the "official" start of the online holiday shopping season, also known as Cyber Monday.
Cyber Monday, the online retail world's version of Black Friday, got off to a busy start as many holiday shoppers logged on at work and trolled the Internet in an effort to bag a few more bargains.
Will consumers, not wanting to use $3 a gallon gas to get to the mall, shop online this holiday season instead?
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In 1994, most people had to call the bank to check their balances. Or inquire in person, or wait for a paper statement to arrive in the mail. Baseball box scores were found in the newspaper. Weather forecasts came over the phone from the weather bureau, or on TV.
If you're reading this, you may be a tax-day procrastinator. If so, you're not alone. More and more Americans' tax filings are coming down to the wire.
More than a third of online consumers would buy pharmaceutical drugs even if they are not approved by the Food and Drug Administration, according to an international survey by comScore Networks that was conducted after blockbuster arthritis treatment drug Vioxx was pulled from the market.
GoDaddy.com, the Super Bowl advertiser caught in a post-game ruckus of Janet Jackson-like proportions, saw traffic to its site surge during Sunday night's game and the controversy that followed the next day.
Online retail spending was stronger than expected in the holiday season just ended, up 29 percent compared with 2003, according to a study released Monday.
There's a little medieval armor shop in Ohio that made a few bucks more this Christmas because of the Internet.
Despite a last-minute sales surge leading up to Christmas Eve, retail industry analysts say the 2004 holiday shopping season will go down as decent and not spectacular.
Online retailing got an early Christmas present this year as last-minute shoppers rewarded e-tailers with a huge jump in sales last week, a market research firm reported.
After enduring a deflating recession, a stall in business growth and rampant downsizing, the U.S. experienced a rejuvenation in economic performance in 2004. Most recent reports show continued GDP expansion, an increase in business investment and consumer spending, a decline in energy costs and 15 consecutive months of job creation.
Online shoppers can expect more of the intermittent outages and delays that have plagued popular retail sites in recent weeks as the holiday season reaches its peak.
"Pass the gravy! Lots and lots of gravy!" For retailers -- online and off -- that's the refrain heard around tables this time of year, because this is when the vast majority of them make their profits.
The nation's shoppers were out in force this weekend, with double-digit percentage increases seen at both brick-and-mortar stores and online, and an estimated total of $22.8 billion in sales, reports indicated Sunday.
Consumer spending for non-travel goods on U.S.-based Web sites will exceed $15 billion during the November through December holiday season, about 23 percent to 26 percent more than during last year's season, according to an online retail industry group.
Hi, welcome to my blog, where I'm going to leak my insights and comments about the election (i.e. drivel) onto the Web, diary style, for all to see. You see, I figured I'd join this fad which, for some inexplicable reason, has become all the Net rage. Sort of like chat rooms once were...
Online pornography has been lucrative for Dan Parisi. His adult website, the infamous www.whitehouse.com, attracts 2 million visitors a month and, he says, brings in revenue of more than $1 million...
More than 17 million Americans have stopped downloading music over the Internet following a recent crackdown on the practice, according to a new survey.
We're shopping more on the Net. Getting more entertainment ... doing more politicking ... and seeing more problems. Problems that are likely to grow. Maybe it's time to figure out a cohesive way to police the Net?
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