If you thought Facebook, with its 400 million registered users was huge, then consider this : Skype has 560 million users and unlike on Facebook, these users are not to casually surf away. Instead a significantly big chunk of them actually pay money to make calls. That makes the business model so impressive. Find below [...]

Managed security company, Network Box has studied over 13 billion URLs visited by businesses in the first quarter of 2010. The results are not too surprising. Facebook leads the pack in terms of the number of visits. The study concludes that a good 6.8% of all website traffic from businesses was to Facebook.com. Here are [...]

Though media tycoons like Rupert Murdoch may lament the slow death of print media in the hands of their online counterpart, there is no gainsaying the fact that online media is now an important element in the scheme of things for any publisher. A recent study by Hitwise looked into the major print media companies [...]

With an increasing number of desktop and mobile devices available to surf the internet from, the internet is seeing an amazing growth in terms of the number of unique IP addresses. Akamai’s recent “State of the Internet” report looks into the global growth of this parameter and notes that US is still very much the [...]

Online radio listeners in the US have grown from a mere 2% of the internet audience in 2001 to over 17% of the internet audience in 2010. That is approximately 43 million users per week. The study was conducted as part of “The Infinite Dial 2010: Digital Platforms and the Future of Radio” by Arbitron [...]

The internet penetration in the US will breach the 70% mark this year. In a recently published report, eMarketer studies the internet growth rate in US as well as how the different racial groups are progressing in this regard. According to this study, over three-fourths of white Americans now access the internet which is the [...]

This is one stat that could be truly misleading. A recent study published by Hitwise looks into the most searched brands in the US and concludes that Facebook was a brand that was more searched than Google. Why is it misleading? Because it is well known that many users use Google (or other search engines) [...]

The online travel market is huge and in USA, this market is expected to cross the $100 billion mark in another couple of years. This is according to a recent article on eMarketer that sees growth back on track after the travel market slumped by 6.7% last year thanks to recession. Here are estimates for [...]

All the prominent websites out there including Google, Yahoo, Facebook, Twitter and MySpace are out there with their data portability offerings that let users sign into third party websites without having to separately create a login ID or having to divulge private information to these third party websites. Interestingly, Yahoo ID is leading the pack [...]

In a recent release, the World Intellectual Property Organization published a stat on the number of internet cybersquatting cases dealt in the past one year. Clearly, they are on a rise Number of domain names dealt with in 2008 : 3985 Number of domain names dealt with in 2009 : 4688 Number of countries involved [...]