via qz.com
The takeaway from Google’s prematurely released earnings report: They still haven’t figured out mobile. The company came up a half a billion dollars short of what analysts had projected for the quarter. Here are some explanations.
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Friday, October 19, 2012
Tuesday, July 31, 2012
Does Twitter Have Half a Billion Users?
via mashable.com
Has Twitter really hit 500 million users, as a new study claims — or is the company drowning in fake accounts?
Twitter tends to be very careful when it comes to announcing user numbers. Wary of its problem with bots and spam accounts — such as the thousands that have started following Mitt Romney in the past few weeks — the company appears to have a policy of only discussing the number of active users.
Back in September 2011, in a State of the Union-style talk at Twitter headquarters, CEO Dick Costolo said there were 100 million active users who log in at least once a month, while 50 million log in every day. On the company’s sixth birthday back in March, it announced the number of active users had reached 140 million — though it didn’t specify whether or not that was monthly logins...
Friday, March 2, 2012
Nearly half of America has smartphones now
In the past year, smartphone ownership among Americans has increased from 35 to 46 percent, says the Pew Internet & American Life Project.
The jump is attributed, in part, to the ongoing Android-iPhone invasion: 20 percent of cellphone owners say their phone uses Android's operating system, up from 15 percent last May; 19 percent say they have an iPhone, up from 10 percent last May; and 6 percent say they have a BlackBerry -- down from 10 percent last May.
Wednesday, January 11, 2012
China's Internet users breach half billion mark
via reuters.com
The number of Internet users in China have crossed the half billion mark, reaching 505 million users at the end of November last year, the China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) reported.
China Internet users top half a billion, many more to go
China's Internet user tally is growing by tens of millions of people every year, the China Internet Network Information Center has revealed.
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