Tuesday: January 26, 2010
- AOL decides to acquire an Internet video firm for $36.5 million.
AOL is looking to do a stronger nationwide video push across their numerous web properties. I guess they are banking on this video thing really taking off on the Interwebs. Anything is possible right?
Wednesday: December 9, 2009
- Dell would like you to know they made $6.5 million in sales via Twitter.
Dell now considers Twitter to be a 'significant new channel' in which to reach customers. If Twitter landed me a couple million in sales I'm guessing that I'd think it would be pretty significant as well.
Tuesday: December 1, 2009
- Cyber Monday brought in a staggering four million shoppers per minute.
Akamai said that its Net Usage Index -- which monitors North American visitors to sites such as American Eagle Outfitters, Overstock.com, QVC.com and eBags.com -- said traffic was up nearly 39% compared to the same time last year.
Friday: October 30, 2009
- Spam marketer ordered to pay Facebook a whopping $711 million.
The company said the judgment marks the second-largest anti-spam award ever. In November 2008, Facebook won an $873 million judgment against Adam Guerbuez and his business, Atlantis Blue Capital, who bombarded users with sexually explicit spam messages.
Wednesday: October 28, 2009
- Firefox manages to gain thirty million new users in just eight weeks.
The folks at Mozilla are quite proud of their recent little growth spurt which was measured by tracking the amount of times that Firefox actually phones home to check for software updates (apparently it does this every 24 hours).
Monday: August 17, 2009
- Brewster's Millions remake apparently in the works.
They will probably have to change the title to Brewster's Billions for dramatic effect and rate of inflation.
Thursday: July 16, 2009
- Facebook would like you to know they now have 250 million active users.
Facebook's growth explosion as of late has been largely overseas, and some would argue that the next frontier for the massive social network would be to make better inroads into countries where people are more likely to be accessing the Web on a mobile device than on a computer.