January

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.

Huffington Post Still Growing Like a Weed

Peter Kafka in Media on March 4, 2010 at 5:16 am PT

Another step in the Huffington Post’s relentless march toward world domination: The company served a staggering 40 million visitors in the last month.

Twitter’s Annual Growth Rate as of January: 1,107 Percent

John Paczkowski in Social on February 17, 2010 at 9:16 am PT

If Twitter’s astonishing month-over-month growth rate hit a ceiling last fall, the microblogging service has clearly broken through it. According to new metrics from comScore, Twitter.com saw 73.5 million unique visitors in January, up eight percent from the 65.2 million who visited it in December 2009.

Bing Is Not Google, but It Might Be Yahoo in a Year or Two

John Paczkowski in News on February 10, 2010 at 3:00 am PT

Microsoft’s Bing is steadily capturing more of the Web search market, siphoning users away from market leader Google, as well as from its new partner, Yahoo. According to comScore’s January 2010 core search volume and market share data for the U.S.–as reported by J.P. Morgan’s Imran Khan, Bing’s share of the search market rose to 11.3 percent from 10.7 percent in December.