Yahoo has released it’s 2nd quarter 2011 financial report, showing a 23% decline in revenues year over year, but with a 9% increase in income. Yahoo’s report is a stark contrast to Google’s recent 2nd quarter report of record revenue and profits. Click through for more details of the financial impact of the Bing/Yahoo merger on Yahoo.
Google’s entry into social networks has brought us the first full-scale social network war for users, and in the early stages Facebook appears to be blundering with awkward attempts at smear campaign, and paranoid-looking policies that are actually driving users to Google+. Added to this a recent user satisfaction study puts Facebook’s satisfaction rating in the bottom 6%, on the same level as cable companies and utilities, while Google is firmly at the top of the list.
Google has released their Second Quarter 2011 Financial Results, showing a record-breaking $9 billion in revenue — a 32% growth over 2nd quarter 2010. Fifteen years after Google was founded and after a decade of doomsayers predicting Google’s downfall, Google still shows no signs of slowing down.
Do you need a mobile version of your website? With the meteoric rise in smartphones over the last few years more and more people are accessing the internet via their mobile devices. Ecreativeworks has just published a whitepaper examining the percentage of traffic to both industrial and B2C website from mobile devices, the share of each mobile platform, and the projected growth of mobile access to industrial and B2C sites.
Google is updating the required fields for Google shopping feeds. These new fields will become required Sept 22nd.
