The New York Times says that Google News, Google’s semi-automated mainstream and blog news indexing service, is experiencing slow growth: … traffic growth is sluggish. With 11.4 million users in May, Google News ranked No. 8 among news sites, far behind Yahoo News, which was No. 1 with 35.8 million visitors, according to Nielsen Online.
High Tech Sector Sees Strong Growth
New York City has the largest amount of technology workers in the U.S. according to a new study from the American Electronics Association (AeA)New York City led the nation with 316,500 technology jobs in 2006, according to the most current data available from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. The region added 6,400 tech jobs in 2006, the second fastest growing cybercity behind Seattle, which added 7,800 jobs. The average wage was $91,500, 46 percent higher than the average private sector wage in the area.
Report: Blinkx Achieves 1,000 Percent YOY Growth
Blinkx might not be up for sale; an official source denied acquisition rumors that started last week. But corporate statements don’t necessarily mean much, and new Hitwise stats portray Blinkx as a tempting target.
(Lack Of) Growth In Online Job Ads Ominous
More job ads were posted online this February than last, and if the stats stopped there, we’d say they made for good news. The amount of growth only equaled three percent, however, which isn’t at all encouraging.
The Growth Of Twitter
An interesting stat posted on the Twitter blog shows which are the top ten countries with the most people using the Twitter social network as determined from Twitter’s public timeline.That’s how I describe Twitter, incidentally – a social network, not the original descriptor ‘micro blogging tool.’ My perception of Twitter has evolved.
AOL Experiences Interesting January Growth
Companies are always trying to pass off deceiving statements or misleading data, and we pride ourselves on being suspicious types. January AOL numbers have been presented by Frank Gruber, however, and they look pretty good in terms of both believability and AOL’s performance.
The Irony of Mahalo Traffic Growth
A couple of weeks ago, Heather Hopkins at Hitwise noted that the human-powered Mahalo search engine has been showing a very strong curve of increasing traffic:
Chase: 29% Holiday Online Retail Growth
Any interesting report is out today from Chase Paymentech, saying that the online holiday retail sales for 2007 grew by a whopping twenty nine percent.
Facebook’s Growth Unaffected By Beacon
Skeptical investors have decided that Facebook does not abide by the “another day, another dollar” rule. It does, however, follow an “another month, more traffic” guideline, and the latest Compete stats prove the social network’s adherence to this trend.
Vint Cerf Foresees Growth
Children are illogical and unpredictable little things, but their parents are still among the best-qualified people to calculate their futures. And when Vint Cerf recently discussed the future of the Internet, much of the conversation focused on the concept of “bigger.”