Twitter is still on a tear!  comScore has released new figures showing that Twitter’s global unique visitors figure in April, 2009 was an astounding 32 million, up from 19 million the month before.
To put it another way, Twitter has just blown past Digg (23 million), LinkedIn (16 million), and the NYTimes.com (17.5 million) in unique [...]

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Microsoft’s new Kumo engine is coming, probably as early as next week.
Sources are indicating that the company will demonstrate it at the D: All Things Digital conference next week.
Dubbed “Kumo”, the new search engine is Microsoft’s attempt to gain back some of the market share it has lost to Google. This is something that Microsoft [...]

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Facebook is absolutely laying the smack down on MySpace.
Facebook is currently more than double the size of “rival” MySpace, according to the latest Comscore data.
To top it off, MySpace lost 2 percent of its users in just one month where Facebook grew by almost 40 million members last month.  MySpace now has 124 [...]

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Getting news via the mobile web is hot – and it’s getting even hotter.
comScore has just released a report detailing the news-digging habits of U.S. users. The number of people who access news and information daily from their cell phones has doubled. It was 10.8 million in January of last year and it was [...]

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According to comScore, YouTube has just exceeded 100 million U.S. viewers for the very first time.
According to the January 2009 data sent out by the comScore Video Metrix service today, more than 147 million U.S. web surfers watched an average of 101 videos per viewer in January.  More than 76 percent of the total U.S. [...]

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Google ended 2008 with a bang.
They took 63.5 percent market share of all search queries performed in the U.S., according to comScore. Additionally, that that market share slowly crept up from 58.5 percent in January of ‘08. According to comScore’s 2008 Digital Year In Review, Google accounted for 85 billion of the 137 [...]

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The internet has finally done it.
The number of people on the web has passed the one billion mark, as of December, according to comScore. Really only between 15 and 22 percent of the world’s population is on the net. There are still a LOT of people yet to go.go.
Using the comScore numbers, here is the [...]

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I’m hoping that they didn’t spend too much money on this research.
With the economy in the crapper and layoffs taking place left and right, it should come as no surprise that the job search niche is the fastest growing online content category, according to comScore. The niche has grown an astounding 51 percent to 18.8 [...]

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The latest data from comScore Video Metrix shows that the number of videos viewed by Americans over the past twelve months increased by 34 percent, with 12.7 billion videos viewed in November 2008. That’s up from 9.5 billion last November.
Looks like Americans spent a whopping 40 percent more time watching online videos [...]

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More people now search videos on YouTube than make actual searches on Yahoo. In fact, YouTube searches now make up 25% of all Google searches in the U.S., according to the latest search figures from comScore.
Its latest report, released Thursday, reveals the number of searches done on YouTube. The amazing [...]

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