As reports of the swine flu outbreak reached beyond Mexican borders and into the U.S. late last week, the Internet has been buzzing at a high level about risks, symptoms and other updates for information The volume of conversations about the epidemic is already nearly ten times those surrounding the salmonella and peanut butter scares [...]

The number of online banking customers continued to grow strongly in 2008 despite the challenging financial environment, according to comScore. The growth was fueled by banks’ aggressive customer acquisition strategies and heightened financial interest among online banking customers wanting to keep a closer eye on their personal finances. After several years of particularly strong growth [...]

A big surge in the annual growth of local search outpaced growth of overall Web search, according to a study by comScore and released by the Yellow Pages Association. The study found that local search grew 58 percent in 2008, reaching an annual total of 15.7 billion searches. By comparison, overall U.S. Web core searches [...]

In 2009 companies will continue to invest significantly in online marketing, but less than half (47%) of marketers use analytics to measure their campaigns, according to a recent survey by Alterian. Online marketing investment is predicted to increase for the 6th year in a row as organizations begin to look to social networks as well [...]

A record number of more than 1.4 billion mobile messages are expected to be delivered nationwide on Inauguration Day, according to estimates based on industry analyst and calculated by the Messaging and Mobile Media division of VeriSign. Based on the continued rise in mobile messaging and the historic nature of the inaugural, VeriSign expects the [...]

Google has introduced a new version of iGoogle to users in the U.S. The main feature of the updated version of iGoogle is canvas view gadgets, which allows users to expand a gadget to access more content. Users can now read news, play games and watch videos in full-page view, without leaving their homepage. Some [...]

After starting a competition of our own, I thought it would be nice to make a blog post about Blog contests and what they can do for your blog. Why start a blog contest? Two words, TRAFFIC, and EXPOSURE. The PS3 contest we started, doubled our number of visitors in under three days, and this [...]

Google trends is one of those sites which I love to play around with, I can spend hours happily inputting different keywords, anticipating what strange pattern may be created next. So as you might expect I was pretty pleased to find out about the new feature that allows you to find out statistics on particular [...]