YouTube Dominates Video In The U.K.

The total number of videos viewed online in the U.K. in April grew 47 percent over a year ago to 4.7 billion videos, according to a new report from comScore. The report found that 21.8 million U.K. Internet users viewed a total of 971 million online display ads on multimedia sites during the month. Google sites were the most popular U.K. online video property during…

Are Spammers Impeding Twitter Growth?

Over the weekend, Twitter found itself victim to the tomfoolery of 4chan as the online community's members apparently launched an initiative to make "#gorillapenis" a trending topic. They were successful, but Twitter of course responded by removing it from the trending topics. What is 4chan?

Online Advertising To Grow 10% In

Worldwide online advertising will grow 10 percent this year, accounting for 15.1 percent of global ad spending by 2011, according to a new report from ZenithOptimedia Group. The report said online advertising has performed better than what was forecast three months ago due to its transparency, accountability and flexibility. Online advertising is the only category forecast for growth in 2009.

Marc Andreessen & Ben Horowitz Look for Investments

Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz have started a new venture capital firm called (appropriately) Andreessen Horowitz. Andreessen serves on the boards of both eBay and Facebook, and is a chairman of the board of Ning, which he also co-founded. His biggest claim to fame was co-founding Netscape.