According to Nielsen, the average US web visitor visited 83 domains, surfed 2,614 pages and spent an average of 56 seconds per page in December 2009. Google ranked # 1 with over 155 million unique users followed by Microsoft, Yahoo and Facebook.
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TechCrunch reported that the company has walked away from Google’s $550 million offer.
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The social-networking site will get about $25 million from agreements with Google and Microsoft, enough to push it into the black for the first time, sources say. Twitter Inc. will make about $25 million from Internet-search deals with Google Inc. and Microsoft Corp. announced in October, enough to push the site into profitability, people familiar [...]
Mozzila and Google are strong supporters of mobile web are pushing their products, Fennec and Crome, to support apps which could be coded with HMTL and JavaScript rather than apps that should be for multiple smartphone platforms, such as iPhone OS, Google Android or Windows Mobile.
“In the interim period, apps will be very successful,” said [...]
According to TechCrunch, Google is negotiating to buy Yelp, a local business review platform for $500 million or more. Google has started its own directory of local services, but with over 20 billion in cash why not acquire a highly successful one. Yelp is growing 80 percent a year, while its closest competitor, Citysearch, remains [...]
Google and Facebook launch short-URL services – Goo.gl and Fb.me which could potentially challenge bit.ly as the most popular online web address shortener. Meanwhile, Bit.ly has released Bit.ly Pro, a service that lets publishers create their own custom short URLs that use the Bit.ly platform.
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Reuters – Google Inc plans to sell two versions of its own-branded cell phone: one with a service contract with T-Mobile USA and another that is unlocked, a source familiar with the matter said.
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A picture of an experimental Android handset given out to Google employees had blogs buzzing over the weekend amid signs that the company could offer a Google-branded smartphone next year.
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Reuters – Google Inc plans to sell its own cellphone direct to consumers as soon as next year, bypassing wireless operators in a rare strategic move, the Wall Street Journal cited sources as saying on Saturday.
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Google announced the addition of three new Web Elements to its Google Web Elements mechanism which allows easy embedding Google products onto a Web site according to the Google Code Blog.
Translate element which enables visitors to automatically translate web pages
Reader element which embeds the headlines from recent shared items on Google Reader
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