February

How to Open a Beer Bottle With a Magazine. Is That a Web Ad Worth Saving?

Peter Kafka in Media on January 4, 2011 at 2:01 pm PT

Web start-up AdKeeper says if advertisers make compelling ads, surfers will want to save them and look at them again. So here’s one worth looking at, at least. But is that enough?

Bing Hot on Yahoo’s Heels

John Paczkowski in News on March 17, 2010 at 10:15 am PT

Nielsen published its February search market metrics this week and it’s more good news for Microsoft. The company’s new Bing search engine saw its market share jump to 12.5 percent from 10.9 percent in January. That puts it within two percentage points of Yahoo.

Year of the Mac, Indeed: Apple Headed for a 2.9 Million Mac Quarter

John Paczkowski in News on March 15, 2010 at 12:10 pm PT

Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster has declared 2010 the “Year of the Mac,” and it’s hard to disagree when looking over the latest retail sales data from the NPD Group: Mac sales during February were up 43 percent for the month–this after a 36 percent spike in sales during January.

February Expected to Be a Great Month for Mac Sales

John Paczkowski in News on March 8, 2010 at 7:05 am PT

February 2009 was not the greatest month for Mac sales. They were down 16 percent year over year and 10 percent from January. And while that may have been unfortunate at the time, it’s good news for Apple and its investors today, because it provides a particularly soft number for comparing with Mac sales in February 2010.

Apple Tablet Coming to AT&T?

John Paczkowski in News on September 15, 2009 at 4:30 am PT

Those Apple tablet rumors just never let up, do they? Not a week after the company’s latest media event and they’re already back in force. The latest, from China Economic News, claims the device is being prepped for a February debut at a price somewhere between $799 and $999.

Apple Tablet Coming to AT&T?

John Paczkowski in News on September 15, 2009 at 4:30 am PT

Those Apple tablet rumors just never let up, do they? Not a week after the company’s latest media event and they’re already back in force. The latest, from China Economic News, claims the device is being prepped for a February debut at a price somewhere between $799 and $999.

Yahoo Search Market Share: From Worse to Worse…

John Paczkowski in News on April 10, 2009 at 3:00 am PT

Yahoo claimed 20.6 percent of all U.S. search queries in February, according to comScore. A year from now it will claim just 17.51 percent or less, its share gutted by the loss of deals that once made Yahoo’s the default search toolbar on new HP and Acer PCs. Who got those deals? Microsoft and Google, of course.