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Mac Growth Outpaces Market for 19th Straight Quarter

in Mobile on February 17, 2011 at 4:00 am PT

The Mac has been on a growth tear for a few years now, outperforming the broader PC market in most every sector. Indeed, December 2010 marked the 19th straight quarter that it did so.
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Prediction: In Two Years, Apple Will Have Less Than 50 Percent of the Tablet Market

in Mobile on January 31, 2011 at 8:30 am PT

Android’s gains in the tablet market continue apace with no signs of slowing. In fact, if anything, the platform is growing faster. According to new research from Strategy Analytics, Android’s share of the global tablet market grew 22 percent in the fourth quarter-–a tenfold spike over the prior quarter.

Eric Who? Wall Street Says Google's CEO Swap Is No Big Deal (So Why Is It Selling?)

in Media on January 21, 2011 at 9:08 am PT

Last night, Wall Street yawned at the Eric Schmidt-Larry Page swap at the top of Google. Today, it seems a little more confused about what the change really means.

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Delicious Red Sea Parted, Users Wander to Other Bookmarking Services

in News on January 4, 2011 at 8:35 pm PT

We might have assumed that users would flee Delicious after Yahoo announced it was shuttering the popular bookmarking service. What we didn’t know was how fast the lifeboats were filling. Until now.

Amazon Beats Street; Street Beats Amazon

in News on October 21, 2010 at 1:41 pm PT

Odd that the 16 percent gain in third-quarter earnings Amazon reported Thursday afternoon would have a deleterious affect on the company’s share price, which had spiked more than 35 percent since last quarter, but that’s exactly what happened.

A Newspaper Pay Wall Goes Up–And So Do Visitor Numbers

in Media on October 19, 2010 at 10:40 am PT

The New York Times is getting ready to roll out a pay wall in January, and plenty of people fret that the paper will see its audience disappear when the gates go up. Here’s a counterargument: The Telegram & Gazette, which happens to be owned by the Times, and which has seen its traffic rise after its wall went up.

YouTube and Viacom Find Lots of Emails, but No Smoking Gun

in Media on March 18, 2010 at 7:25 pm PT

The YouTube-Viacom documents released today are chock full of interesting morsels. Feel free to ignore most of them.

Google Mistakes Michael Jackson’s Death for an “Automated Attack”

in Media on June 26, 2009 at 5:48 pm PT

One last Michael Jackson Web traffic story: Google says it received so many search queries with the late singer’s name on Thursday that it thought it was being targeted by an “automated attack.” Which meant that some visitors looking for Jackson info on Google News got an error message for about 25 minutes yesterday.
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Super Bowl Ads Web 2.0 Roundup: Watch, Tweet and Widget

in News on January 31, 2009 at 9:21 pm PT

Super Bowl XLIII is nearly upon us with ads in tow, and since there’s never been as much video, connectivity or interactivity as there is right now, the whole thing is shaping up to be quite the Web 2.0 extravaganza. From YouTube to Twitter to Facebook and beyond, here’s your guide to all the digital venues available to view, vote on and even interact with this year’s lineup of ad campaigns.

Stock ManAAPLation? [Updated]

in News on January 2, 2009 at 11:38 am PT

On Dec. 30, with just a couple of hours left in the penultimate trading session of the year, Apple’s shares hit $87.99 and seemed to be well on their way back to $90. But before they could break $88, claims that Steve Jobs’s declining health is the real reason the Apple CEO won’t deliver the keynote at Macworld 2009 cut the legs out from under them. The rumor was quickly dismissed, but not before AAPL plunged to $85.04.