Facebook to trademark the word "face"
Facebook has moved one step closer in its efforts to trademark the word "face", after receiving the green light from the US Patent and Trademark Office. The Office has issued a notice of allowance to the social networking juggernaut, allowing the company to own the word after paying a fee, the NY Post reported. The [...]
Corporate Blogging Goes Mainstream
Becoming fully incorporated into media and marketing Blogging has been around for well over a decade—an eternity in internet time. Whereas blogs used to be a thorn in the side of traditional journalism, today they’re an essential ingredient in the media mix. Hardly a news organization exists that does not have a blog where its [...]
Google Gains Search Ground
Google gained ground in its dominance of the US explicit and total core search markets in September 2010, according to monthly comScore qSearch analysis. Google Takes Larger Share of Explicit Core Search Google Sites held 66.1% of the US explicit core search market (which measures user engagement with a search service with the intent to [...]
More Americans Own Mobile Phones than Computers
A higher percentage of US adults owns a mobile phone than owns a computer, according to new data from the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project. Cell Phones, Computers Top Gadgets Pew data indicates that 85% of Americans now own a cell phone. Cell phone ownership rates among young adults have reached 96% [...]
Google eyes online consumer index
US internet titan Google is readying its own ‘Google Price Index’ based on a vast database of online purchases, providing a daily measure of inflation, said a top company official quoted in the Financial Times. Google has not yet decided whether it will publish the index (GPI), which is still in development, the group’s chief [...]
