In February, more than 35 million people in France accessed the Internet from a home or work computer, up 19 percent over the previous year, according to comScore.
French Internet users spent a combined total of 932 million hours online in February, an average of 27 hours per person. Instant messaging was the most popular activity with total share of time spent at 14.3 percent, followed by social networking at 5.7 percent. Together the two categories accounted for one out of every five minutes spent online during the month.
Salesforce Signs “Largest Deal Ever”
Citigroup and Salesforce.com are both big companies, and a new deal between them isn’t insignificant, either – Citigroup chose Salesforce to provide software to 30,000 financial advisors.
Google – The Web’s Largest Social Network
Blogging, email, IM, and telephone make it easy to keep in touch with your real friends. Social networks are hyped, but tend to have low value traffic because they don’t effectively separate signal from noise. The only people who have time for them are people hawking crap, people looking to waste time, and spam bots.
Sure Google owns Orkut, but they don’t need it. Google already is a social network, and became one by targeting and partnering with the power users and influencers, but few people think of them as a social network.
SEM – The World’s Largest Popularity Contest
Currently, search engine marketing is best described by the phrase “popular.” This may change in the future, but right now, to rank in a competitive search term, you have to be popular; you know, like way back in high school where there was a division between the “cool kids” and everyone else.
Asia World’s Largest Internet Market
Research and Markets has released “2006 Asia Telecoms, Mobile and Broadband Market Overview” which contains information on the trends and developments in telecommunications, mobile, Internet, broadband and broadcasting for the Asian region.
China To Have The Largest Internet Population
China is on pace to surpass the number of Internet users in the U.S. Last year the country had a 23 percent increase in Internet users brining the total to 137 million.
Bank of America To Become One of Nation’s Largest Credit Issuers
Yesterday, Bank of America announced that it will become one of the largest credit issuers in the United States as it acquires MBNA Corporation.
The Largest Tech Buyout … Ever
The Mercury News reports on the largest tech buyout, ever. Silver Lake Partners and other private equity firms are acquiring SunGard Data Systems, a risk management software company, for $11.3 billion.
Samsung Announces Worlds Largest HDTV TFT-LCD
At a startling 82 inches, Samsung has announced the world’s largest thin film transistor (TFT), high-definition LCD display.
Where Is Our Largest Technological Plan?
The period, more or less one year before September 11, the White House Technology Advisor worked on mankind’s largest plan until now, to install a fantastic communications and IT network of 100 Mb/s in 100 million houses in the next 10 years.