Should be around half of them, at least. Barracuda Networks surveyed 2400 customers. Percentage of customers who blocked Facebook and MySpace at office: 50.2 %

Digg is internet’s most famous Social news site. Digg is recently rumored to be discussing a sale to a major media company. The site is said to be valued at aroun $300 to $400 million.

Growth is slowing down. Third quarter results show a revenue of $540 million from advertisements. Growth rate is about 13% year-on-year But why is growth rate slowing down? Decrease of display and search advertising on AOL site and partner sites Continued pricing pressure due to competitors and drop in paid click ads on the search [...]

Techcrunch reports spotting a Google PC at Wal-mart What makes it stand out, however, is GOS, a version of Linux specially made to run Google applications like GMail and Google Documents. It also runs OpenOffice, an open-source office suite that can handle Microsoft Word documents, and some multimedia applications. Price of Google PC: $200

Google Stock price at the end of the first day of trading: $108.31 Time taken to rise from $200 to $700: 30 months Time taken to rise from $500 to $700: 5 months Stock price necessary to make Google America’s biggest company: $1572.5 Projected time for Google to reach this target: October 2009

Mininova is a peer-to-peer BitTorrent site. It has reached a landmark 3 billion downloads. Daily visits to the site: 3 Million Daily downloads: 10 Million Mininova targets 4 billion downloads by the end of the year.

Current plan charges $0.0195 per kilobyte of data processed. In the new plan, AT&T offers 50MB of data per month to browse, check email. The charge for the new plan works out to be around $1 per MB of data. This new plan is available for international travelers to 29 countries including China, Canada, and [...]

eMarketer report on the population of Hispanic Americans: Number of Hispanic Americans online in 2006: 17.5 million Number of Hispanic Americans online in 2007: 18.8 million Number of Hispanic Americans online in 2008: 20.2 million Number of Hispanic Americans online in 2009: 21.6 million Number of Hispanic Americans online in 2010: 23.0 million Number of [...]

Facebook application developers have been given their first monetizing solution on Facebook mobile through AdMob. Developers can download ads from their huge inventory for their applications. About AdMob: Founded in 2006 Funded by Sequoia and Accel partners Serves 1.5 billion ads a month

AOL’s new behavior targeted ads shall serve ads to consumers based on what they have searched. This will reach almost 91% of America’s online audience. A twist in the tale: The company plans to entrust greater consumer trust by making the behavioral targeting easy to opt out.