Getty Images Sells For $2.4 Billion
Just a couple of weeks after Getty Images, the world's largest stock images company, appeared to have failed to find a buyer…
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Just a couple of weeks after Getty Images, the world's largest stock images company, appeared to have failed to find a buyer…
What Apple needs is to branch out beyond its cultish following. The company's done pretty well at that lately with the iPod and iPhone and all the hysterical ecstasy that followed. They've got something cool with this Apple TV idea, but the computer-to-TV market has been a more difficult one to break.
It's one thing when it appears that Facebook has lost numbers in Britain. Facebook wasn't alone. Social networking in general was down in that one country, where habits have never exactly been a mirror of the larger situation. Bebo, for example, is still relatively unknown in the States.
Some new Hitwise statistics have led to two takeaways. First, people follow Oprah. Second, people like free stuff. Simple enough, eh?
Mozilla reached a milestone recently as Firefox hit 500 million downloads. If that were people, that'd be about a twelfth of the earth, or about eight percent of everybody.
In December 2007 U.S. Internet users viewed more than 10 billion videos online and it was the busiest month for online video consumption since comScore, which authored the report, began tracking online video.