A new browser have been getting a lot of buzz in the last couple of weeks and it hasn't even launched yet. RockMelt.com, is a browser which incorporates a lot of social networking capability and including your Facebook friends, their tweets and such sites like Yelp.com. If you watch the 2 minute video posted on their site you will see the browser acts more like a portal and may lead to less … [Read more...]

PaidContent.org is reporting that just "three years after purchasing Business.com for $345 million, the owner, Dex One is shutting down the site". "In a statement, Dex One says the “Business.com operations are no longer viable and are not a part of our long-term plans” and it will instead focus on its other online operations, which include DexKnows.com." According to the post the site of … [Read more...]

SearchIgnite.com, which claims to manage more than $600 million in pay-per-click (PPC) spending every year, just released its latest report on the paid search market in the US for the third quarter. According to the company, spending on PPC advertising increased 5.8%, year-over-year. Month-over-month figures also increased with July growing 4.9%, August 5.8% and September 6.7%. The … [Read more...]

According to the browser analytics firm Statcounter,  Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser has fallen below 50% of the worldwide market for the first time. Microsoft IE fell to 49.87% in September followed by Firefox with 31.5%. "Google's Chrome continues to increase market share at an impressive rate and has more than tripled from 3.69% in September 2009 to 11.54% in September this … [Read more...]

TechCrunch just published a story today saying how they believe that Faceook.com will be bigger than Google in 5 years. "What do I mean by bigger? Facebook already has more page views than Google. People already spend more time spent on Facebook than Google. I’m referring to the life blood of any business: revenues." "Google’s 2010 revenues will be $28 billion, give or take a billion. The … [Read more...]

Facebook announced today that it was splitting its shares 5 for 1. Although the company's shares are not yet publicly traded they have been selling privately though sites like SharesPost and SecondMarket.com. Spiting the shares increases the amount of share the company has available for employees and investors. The last shares I have seen trade privately have been at … [Read more...]

Microsoft has launched another attempt to get people to use it search engine by paying or in this case rewarding them to do so. The Bing Rewards Program unlike Microsoft's Live.com Search program that paid people cash to use it for searches, will reward people with items like gift cards, movies tickets and electronics to name a view rewards that can be earned. "Become a member of the Bing … [Read more...]