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Online Gaming Attracting More Females
Growth in online gaming had significant user growth among teenage girls between the ages of 12 and 17 and women between the…
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Baidu Blocked By Major Chinese Sites
It appears that Baidu, the Chinese search giant, has hit a bit of a stumbling block. Some major portals and social networks in its home market have stopped the company's spiders from indexing their sites.
You Can’t Just Make New Friends on Facebook!
Facebook is not a social network. Who knew? That's what they have told their users anyway. TechCrunch shares an email that a user was sent when their account was deleted. In that email, Lauren of User Operations for Facebook says:
Mobile Search Growth Up 68 Percent
Mobile search is increasing in both popularity and frequency in the U.S. and Western Europe.In June 2008, 20.8 million U.S. mobile subscribers and 4.5 million European mobile subscribers used mobile search during the month, an increase of 68 and 38 percent from June 2007, respectively, according to comScore M: Metrics.The U.K. had the highest penetration of mobile subscribers using search at 9.5 percent, trailed closely…
Napster Is Best Buy For Best Buy
Best Buy will have some music to offer alongside all that portable gadgetry soon. The company announced this morning the acquisition of Napster for $121 million in cash.
World Association of Newspapers Tries to Block Google-Yahoo! Deal
A couple weeks ago, Google said it would go forward with its proposed deal with Yahoo!, which would see Google supplying ads to Yahoo!, if the U.S. Department of Justice had not yet blocked them from doing so. In other words, they aren't gong to wait for an investigation to play out before they begin.
