Search wars: Google loses ground to Yahoo in US

Mozilla’s move to make Yahoo default search engine, among other things, have led to Google’s search dominance experiencing its biggest drop since 2009, according to new research. In December Yahoo achieved its highest US search share for over five years according to...

China now rivalling US dominance of digital media

China accounts for two of the six companies with the highest online media revenues and four of the 10 fastest-growing, according to the latest Digital Media Index from global research and advisory firm Strategy Analytics which analyses revenue trends across 44 public...

New York Times ramps up mobile strategy

The New York Times this week hired Kinsey Wilson, formerly of USA Today and NPR, as its new editor for innovation and strategy as the publisher looks to boost its mobile efforts as well as developing new digital products, including mobile applications Wilson will be...

Netflix accounts for third of traffic in North America

Netflix accounts for about a third of Internet traffic in North America on “fixed” connections, but the video streaming service also accounts for a tenth of all uploaded traffic too, second only to BitTorrent, according to new research. Sandvine’s latest Global...

The Impact of Halloween on eCommerce

158 million Americans celebrated Halloween in 2013, with an astonishing $6.9bn spent on halloween costumes (both online and offline). This infographic from Nextopia looks at why the holiday is now big business for brands. Key findings from the infographic: • 41% of...