It’s a little stunning to contemplate how wrong things have gone for Google (NSDQ: GOOG) in just the first month of 2012, as the company hopes to put a disastrous January in the rear-view mirror with perhaps another tear-jerking Super Bowl ad this Sunday. Larry Page and Sergey Brin haven’t turned into Jim...
Social Network Ads: LinkedIn Falls Behind Twitter; Facebook Biggest Of All
It remains to be seen whether all social networks can be profitable on advertising alone—and crucially what formats will work best alongside people’s communications with each other—but for now we are at least seeing some big growth in the space.
Facebook’s Latest Scoop: Thousands Of Journalists Use Subscribe Feature
For many news sites, Facebook has become one of the biggest sources of referral traffic to its stories, and today the social network revealed some numbers that underscored how it is continuing to build up its cred as a news aggregator: it says it now has “thousands” of journalists using its new Subscribe feature, an...
2012 Mobile Ad Spend Revised Up To $2.6 Billion, Google Fueling The Machine
A big endorsement today for mobile advertising from eMarketer: their analysts today said they were revising up their forecasts for U.S. mobile ad spend to $2.61 billion, from their previous estimates of $1.8 billion. Why the rise? Google’s “exceptional” mobile advertising performance in mobile search advertising, and more reliable market data.
New Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson Has Big Plans, but Can’t Tell You About Them
In the meantime, you've got to be comfortable with the fact that he has plans.
Yahoo: Revenues Slightly Down, Investors Await Words Of Wisdom From New CEO
In its first earnings announcement since recently appointing Scott Thompson as its new CEO and the seeing off founder Jerry Yang, Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) today reported Q4 revenues of $1.169 billion, down three percent on the same quarter last year.
Digital Music Sales Grow Worldwide, but Big Music Still Frets About Pirates
Give people a choice, and they might pay for digital music, after all.Also, it helps if they can't steal it.
Microsoft On Target In Fourth Quarter But Windows Sales Still Sliding
Microsoft’s fourth-quarter earnings came in about where Wall Street had expected, but the decline of its Windows business continued during a holiday quarter when it seems pretty clear other gadgets dominated shopping lists.
Updated: Google Miss Sends Stock Down 9 Percent On Cost-Per-Click Questions
Google (NSDQ: GOOG) missed analyst expectations for earnings per share during the fourth quarter, sending its stock plunging in after-hours trading Thursday. The company had been expected to produce earnings per share of $10.49, but it chalked up just $9.50 in earnings per share excluding special items and also missed revenue targets.
Yawn — And Get Ready for Another Giant Quarter From Google
Investors are already convinced the search giant is still booming, which is why they've pushed shares up to near-record levels. (Of course, if they're wrong ...)
Can Facebook Control 5 Percent Of Online Advertising By End Of 2012?
While many of the top Internet companies faced a volatile ad market in the fourth quarter of last year, Facebook saw its share of the overall online advertising market increase to 2.7 percent during the period. In fact, by the time 2012 is over, the social network could control up to 5 percent of online...
This Week in Review: Google and the social search wars, and the Post’s in-house innovation critic
Plus: 'Truth vigilantes' and objectivity, debating the value of political journalism, unique paywall models, and the rest of the week's must-reads in the future of news.
