It looks like they’ll soon have to have a web show about the “rise and rise of Tumblr” because the site has seen jaw-dropping growth in the last year or so. Tumblr founder and CEO David Karp presented at the recent Digital Life Design (DLD) conference held in Munich, Germany, and gave some interesting insights [...]
February 9th, 2012 by Anthony West
Though times are hard for many with the economy down and so many people losing their jobs, gas prices being high, etc, etc for some successful businesses and companies of our time, all of these things bringing so many down are not affecting them at all. Take Google for instance who states their plans for [...]
February 9th, 2012 by Daniel Renfro
The Facebook IPO is nearly upon us, so I suppose now is as good a time as any for the social networking giant to drop its revenue figures for last year (2011). For now though, we’ll just have to rely on the data coming out of third-party Facebook assessors because the fine folks over at [...]
February 8th, 2012 by Anthony West
Getting 100,000 people to visit a website is quite an achievement in the online world, but getting 100,000 people to visit your website at the ‘same time’ is another thing entirely. Few sites are able to achieve this, and those that do, go are usually pulling in some serious traffic. The latest site to join [...]
February 8th, 2012 by Anthony West
When you are a telecoms carrier in a very competitive market, you need all the advantages you can get. And the partnership between Apple and AT&T has proven a winner—for both parties. According to the recent earnings figures released by AT&T, the company had a stellar year in 2011, and was only marred by the [...]
February 8th, 2012 by Anthony West
I guess the intrinsic value of gold jewelery is what makes a domain bearing the word gold in it sell for more than one bearing the word food in it. Just a few days ago we wrote about the sale of FoodMaps.com for a paltry $2,900. Today it’s GoldChains.com that sold on Sedo recently for [...]
February 8th, 2012 by Anthony West
Pinterest might not be household name, but with the growing number of hits the site receives, it is only a matter of time before this happens. Both Hitwise and ComScore have noted the spike in traffic, and a recent tweet by Hitwise suggests that the growth is something which is expected to continue. According to [...]
February 8th, 2012 by Anthony West
There are many social networking sites on the world wide web today. Everyone remembers Myspace which was primarily a hit about 10 years ago and which has taken a big hit from the popularity and emergence of Facebook and Twitter and various other social networking sites. Facebook is probably the most popular social networking site [...]
February 8th, 2012 by Daniel Renfro
Apple is doing so well that pretty much every division seems to be enjoying the fruits of a solid harvest. On receipt of news that Apple had its best quarter ever, the markets responded in kind, sending the stock north of the $450 mark. There was also good news regarding one of the latest additions [...]
February 7th, 2012 by Anthony West
Recipe websites are almost perennial in their popularity. Little wonder then that when one of the top recipe websites online goes up for sale, it commands big bucks. Popular recipe website AllRecipes.com was recently sold for a whopping $175 million. The buyer was Meredith Corp, the publishing house that controls the magazines Better Homes and [...]
February 7th, 2012 by Anthony West
You can’t really call a domain sale for $45,000 a weak sale, but with Channel.com going for that amount at a recent Great Domains auction, it sort of makes you question things a little bit. The odd thing too about the sale is that the reserve for the domain wasn’t met, but was sold nonetheless. [...]
February 7th, 2012 by Anthony West
It has been common knowledge for years that most users of ‘free’ platforms on the internet do so at a price. That price in cold hard terms has always been defined in terms of a user’s worth to advertisers and marketers. Different platforms have different measuring instruments and indeed unique valuation systems but Google is [...]
February 7th, 2012 by Anthony West
The growing use of smartphones and the increase overall in terms of their capacity is fueling speculation and prediction on what the smartphone landscape will look like in the next year or so. According to Slots of Vegas, a whopping 113.9 million new mobile internet users will emerge in 2012; of that number, 106. Million [...]
February 7th, 2012 by Anthony West
Facebook and Twitter may be seen by most to be the social hangouts for most people, but both platforms are increasingly being used by governments around the world to monitor the behavior and actions of its citizens. China is perhaps the biggest and most overt example of government control over the internet and social networking [...]
February 7th, 2012 by Anthony West
There are various domain name selling companies on the world wide web. These companies bring in a lot of revenue and very successful due to the popularity of having businesses online. Just as there are many different domain name selling companies to choose from when looking into purchasing a domain name, there are thousands upon [...]
February 7th, 2012 by Daniel Renfro
It’s hard to tell if it’s the daily deals component of TravelZoo’s business that is causing it to hurt because aside from that, the company is extensively invested in the travel and hospitality sector. Whatever the case, the company’s stock took a mild beating on news of it’s less than stellar fourth quarter performance for [...]
February 6th, 2012 by Anthony West
Social media traffic is becoming big business, and those who can dominate the space are fast becoming the ones who can attract the biggest advertising dollars. Right now no other player in the social media games dominates like Facebook and a recent study has helped to confirm just how much the social networking giant ‘owns’ [...]
February 6th, 2012 by Anthony West
If and when SOPA and PIPA becomes law, the number of domains currently registered may take on a different picture, but for now, registrations are booming. VeriSign, the operator for the .Com and .Net registries posted its fourth quarter results for 2011, and the numbers revealed that there is a steady increase of new domain [...]
February 6th, 2012 by Anthony West
