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Video game industry is expected to shoot from $41.9 bln in global sales 2007 to $68.3 bln in 2012, a compound annual growth rate of 10.3%, PriceWaterhouseCoopers reported. Online and wireless games will grow the fastest at 16.9% and 19%, respectively. Online will jump from $6.6 bln 2007 to $14.4 bln in 2012, while wireless […]

VeriSign found that “.cn” overtook “.net” sometime in Q1 2008. ‘.cn’ registrations grew 23% from Q4 2007 and were triple those in Q1 2007. The organization that runs Germany’s “.de” domain pegged “.cn” registrations at 11.8 mln and “.net” at 11.6 mln as of May 2008. The number of Internet users in China has soared […]

Core Search Entity
March 08
April 08
Growth, MTM
Total Core Search
10,771
10,582
-2%
Google Sites
6,438
6,514
1%
Yahoo! Sites
2,296
2,159
-6%
Microsoft Sites
1,012
961
-5%
AOL LLC
521
491
-6%
Ask Network
503
458
-9%
Source: comScore

The Internet will overtake TV as the biggest advertising medium in UK in 2008, with over 19% of total ad spend, according to Enders Analysis. Online advertising expenditure will grow 26.4% in nominal terms to 3.56 bln pounds ($7 bln), overtaking TV ad spend, which will fall 2.5% to 3.39 bln pounds. Google would remain […]

Provider
Searches, 000
Growth
Share
1. Google Search
5,109,444
35.4%
62.0%
2. Yahoo! Search
1,446,410
-3.4%
17.5%
3. Live Search
796,038
30.0%
9.7%
4. AOL Search
352,039
-5.1%
4.3%
5. Ask.com Search
171,545
35.8%
2.1%
6. My Web Search
57,057
-16.0%
0.7%
7. Comcast Search
46,156
31.0%
0.6%
8. AT&T Worldnet Search
28,059
200.9%
0.3%
9. NexTag Search
21,996
25.4%
0.3%
10. My Way Search
16,742
-37.6%
0.2%
Source: Nielsen

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The IAB announced that Internet advertising revenues reached $5.8 bln for Q1 2008. The Q1 2008 revenues are an 18.2% increase over Q1 2007, and represent the second highest quarter ever recorded, after Q4 2007 $5.9 bln.

Technorati Tags: internet

British Music Rights published its findings on the state of digital music in UK.

More than 60% of internet users drawn to online retailers that employ Web 2.0 tools and techniques. 35% of them say they’re most likely to return to a shopping website if it makes recommendations on products or services for sale, according to Guidance and Synovate. 26% want “a unique experience each time” they shop. 18% […]

Fully 41% of those age 18-24, the prime demographic for the social web, say they’re most likely to return to a site that makes recommendations, according to Guidance and Synovate. Only 29% of those 55-64 say so. Women are far more likely to be influenced by a welcome greeting - with 20% saying it’s the […]

Core Search Entity
Feb-08
Mar-08
Growth, MTM
Total Core Search
100.0%
100.0%
0.0
Google Sites
59.2%
59.8%
0.6
Yahoo! Sites
21.6%
21.3%
-0.3
Microsoft Sites
9.6%
9.4%
-0.2
AOL
4.9%
4.8%
-0.1
Ask Network
4.6%
4.7%
0.1
Source: comScore