According to the market research firm Hitwise, Facebook.com has overtaken Google to become the most popular website in the United States for the first time. For the week ending March 13, Facebook had a 7.07% market share, beating Google's 7.03% market share. "The market share of visits to Facebook.com increased 185% last week as compared to the same week in 2009, while visits to … [Read more...]
Even A WIPO Panelist Says Even He’s Concerned With Inconsistent Decisions: You Got To Read This Quote
Yesterday in a decision a sole panelist had some interesting words about the WIPO decisions: """This Panel is concerned that if panelists develop their interpretation of the Policy as they go along to meet the needs of trademark owners who are suffering at the hands of domain name registrants, a stage will be reached where they will be acting beyond their remit. At some stage the issue must … [Read more...]
Head Of Sales Of Yahoo Quits To Join Demand Media
According to AllThingsDigital, Yahoo's Senior Vice President of U.S. Revenue and Market Development, is planning on leaving Yahoo for a new gig at Demand Media. Joanne Bradford will according to report, leave Yahoo just after 18 months on the job and will join Demand Media as Chief Revenue Officer. In addition to serving as Yahoo's top sales executive, Ms. Bradford was leading the sales … [Read more...]
Geraldo.com Sells On NameJet.com For $15K, What Would You Do With It?
The domain name Geraldo.com sold today on NameJet.com for $14,888. The domain according to Alexa and Compete.com has traffic Alexa ranks it between 1.5M & 2M and Compete says its gets around 2K visitors a month. However a look at Alexa reveals that 48% of the people visiting the site are looking for info on Geraldo Rivera, and another 20% are looking for info about one of his … [Read more...]
Is Internet Access a Fundamental Right? BBC: 87% Of Users Say Yes
According to a new poll released by the BBC, 80% of 87% of internet users feel internet access should be the "fundamental right of all people", like water and air. The survey was of more than 27,000 adults across 26 countries. According to the BBC, The UN is pushing for universal net access. "The right to communicate cannot be ignored," Dr Hamadoun Toure, secretary-general of the … [Read more...]
Australian Trademark Office: Apple Does Not Own The Letter “i”
In a case decided last week by the Australian trademark office, Apple, Inc objected to the trademark application filed by another company on the term, DOPi (iPod spelled backwards with emphasis on the "i"). Apple argued that the application of the trademark should be rejected as an infringement on its trademark because the "particular coloring and orientation of the letter “i” in the mark, … [Read more...]
MediaPost.com Covers Root Orange
Mediapost.com just published a story on one of the new companies in our space, Root Orange. The story give you some back ground on how it got started and its location splitting technology and the roll out of attorney.com. Basically as we discussed a couple of weeks ago the technology allows for many different, in the case of attorney.com, lawyers around the country to use and market the same … [Read more...]