Post-holiday Android Tablet Web Traffic Has Increased
Web traffic on Android tablets from various vendors enjoyed substantial growth after the Christmas holiday, slicing Apple’s iPads share by more than 7%. Nonetheless, Web traffic on Apple’s iPad...
View ArticleYahoo Inks Global Ad Deal With Google
Yahoo has inked a global advertising deal with Google that will result in Google ads appearing on some of Yahoo’s websites, both companies announced on Wednesday. The alliance could be good for both...
View ArticleBrowser Ad-Blocking Causing Trouble For Free Content Websites
Nearly one in four browsers contains an ad-blocking tool, reducing revenue at free-content websites, an Irish company said on Thursday. The growing popularity of ad blocking — driven by users’...
View ArticleReddit In Pursuit Of Profits
Social news hub Reddit enjoyed a major get when it interviewed Barack Obama last year. The big get for 2013 was reaching 90 million unique visitors a month, according to the company, on par with the...
View ArticleFacebook To Start Displaying Video Ads
A variety of video ads will soon make their debut in Facebook users’ feeds as the company grasps at a larger slice of the lucrative TV advertising market. The ads will be 15 seconds long, similar to...
View ArticleChrome Climbs To Second Place In Browser Wars
Google’s Chrome browser in July broke the 20% user share bar for the first time, according to recently published statistics by Web measurement vendor Net Applications. But because the browser war is a...
View ArticleGoogle Lowers Search Ranking Of Websites That Lack Encryption
Websites that do not encrypt connections with their visitors may get a lower ranking on Google’s search engine, a step the company said it is taking to promote better online security practices. The...
View ArticleMicrosoft Unveils A Re-designed MSN
Microsoft has unveiled its complete makeover of the MSN portal that now combines easy access to personal productivity tools and content from a large number of providers. As the company tries to revive...
View ArticleWill Google’s Algorithm Change Stop Piracy?
"We've now refined the signal in ways we expect to visibly affect the rankings of some of the most notorious sites. This update will roll out globally starting next week," Google said, adding that it...
View ArticleChrome Browser Breaks Through The 25% User Share Mark
Google’s Chrome browser surpassed the 25% user share mark last month, putting it in the position that Firefox briefly attained but quickly lost. In April, Chrome accounted for 25.7% of the total...
View ArticleIs Chrome A Resource Hog?
Since its inception Chrome has been focusing on security and performance of the web across all supported platforms. Performance sometimes has come at the cost of resource usage, but given the...
View ArticleFacebook Wants To Keep Tracking Non-members
Facebook announced that it would appeal a court ruling ordering it to stop tracking the online activities of non-Facebook users in Belgium who visit Facebook pages, or face a 250,000 euro ($269,000)...
View ArticleMicrosoft’s IE Falls Below 50% Market Share
Microsoft’s once dominant Internet Explorer browser lost its majority position last month, according to a Web metrics vendor, falling under the 50% bar for the first time since it thrashed Netscape...
View ArticleMicrosoft’s Edge Showing Signs Of Life
Microsoft’s Edge browser notched some gains in users and usage share last month, but the default browser of Windows 10 remained the choice of a minority of users — according to some sources, a very...
View ArticleHalf Of Web Traffic Is Bot Generated, Says Recent Report
Nearly half of all Web traffic comes from bots and crawlers, and that’s costing companies lots of money. That’s one finding from a report released by DeviceAtlas, which makes software to help companies...
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