EU Fines Intel A Record $1.45 Billion

The European Commission has imposed a record fine against Intel Corp of $1.45 billion (1.06 billion euros) for violating antitrust rules and other practices used to exclude competitor AMD from the computer chip market.

Mobile Advertising Booming in Britain

Despite being a nascent industry in tough economic times, mobile advertising in the UK is growing at a faster rate than previously expected. The IAB and PricewaterhouseCoopers research demonstrates that mobile advertising has experienced an impressive and steady growth in the UK in an overall declining market. In 2008, as more brands trialed and embraced the medium, spending increased by a whopping 99.2% to $44…

Twitter Quadruples Audience in 2 Months

Twitter has more than quadrupled its total audience over the last two months according to new data from comScore. Everybody knows that Twitter has been growing ridiculously, but this growth is astounding. Compete data even showed that Twitter had surpassed the New York Times and Wall Street Journal sites in unique visitors. Here is the graph on that:

Malicious Content Found More on Well Established Sites

MessageLabs Intelligence released some new  information today indicating that the assumption that most web-based malware resides on fly-by-night websites touting adult content, is an "old-fashioned notion." Instead, a MessageLabs (part of Symantec) spokesperson tells Webproworld that cybercriminals are more likely to be hiding on legitimate web sites tha have been compromised. Data from the week of May 5th shows that: