ComScore: More Advertising Coming to Online Videos

Research firm ComScore projects that spending on online-video advertising will more than triple between 2010 and 2015. But that doesn’t mean you’ll necessarily see more commercials per video. Spending will continue to lag behin…

Yahoo Is Pleasing Investors, Instead of Its Users

Ever since rebuffing Microsoft’s takeover bid, Yahoo has been keen to placate angry shareholders, and Carol Bartz’s latest moves are doing that still. But by failing to keep up with true social networking a la Facebook, Yahoo r…

In 2010, One Site Ruled Them All: Facebook

Facebook ruled the Internet in 2010. It was both the most-searched term — accounting for 2.11% of all searches — and the top-visited website, attracting 8.93% of all U.S. visits, compared to Google’s 7.19%.
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Last-Minute Shopping Boosts Online Holiday Sales 12%

So far this holiday season, U.S. online retail spending is up 12% from a year ago. More people took to the Internet last weekend to finish up their last-minute shopping, according to a ComScore report.
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