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Facebook Celebrates 10th Birthday – A Look Back Over The Past 10 Years
On the 4th of February, 2004 – TheFacebook went live to college students at Harvard University. Today, over 1.2 billion people from all around the world use Facebook to connect with family, friends and organisations. Let’s have a look back at Facebook over the past 10 years and their major milestones. Feb 2004 – Service […]
Read More | ShareTwitter celebrates 5th Birthday, reveals stats
Twitter is celebrating it’s 5th birthday this week and have revealed some interesting statistics on how their social network is growing. It’s actually hard to believe Twitter has been going for 5 years. Adoption was a little slow in Australia, as in 2009 in the service really started to take off here. Here are the […]
Read More | ShareOnline Gaming Statistics
Online gaming is nothing new, but nowdays console systems are able to connected to the internet allowing users to play with other gamers all around the world. Here are some interesting statistics relevant to the online gaming industry today: – The online gaming market is worth around $15 Billion USD. – With XBOX live, 20 […]
Read More | ShareSTATS of the Internet!
We all know the internet is big, and growing by the second. It is estimated that 5 new sites are being created every second. Here is some more info on the modern day internet- Google estimates the internet is now about 5 million terabytes of data (5 billion GB) Google has only indexed .004% of […]
Read More | ShareYouTube facts and figures
YouTube has grown into the largest video sharing and video content site there is today. Have a read over some very interesting facts about the site: 2005 February 2005, the origional founders registered the domain youtube.com April 23, 2005 – first video uploaded to the site May 2005 – beta launch June 2005 – embedding […]
Read More | ShareMore Google Admob acquisition details revealed
More details have emerged about Google’s acquisition of the mobile advertising network AdMob. We aleady know the Google purchased Admob for US$750 million in stock and cash – but what was the exact split? The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) have released details that Google sold $530 million in stock, indicating that Admob investors […]
Read More | ShareAre we addicted to the internet?
The internet is a tool many of us use everyday for work or personal reasons. In fact we recently celebrated the internet becoming 20 years old. Fact is the first 10 years of the internet slowly gathered new users. The last 10 years – user numbers have exploded! It is reported now 1 in 8 […]
Read More | Share20 Interesting Social Media statistics
20 Interesting Facts about Social Media #1 – Social media spending is expected to increase from $716 million in 2008 to $3.1 billion in 2014, which is a compound annual growth rate of 34% (CAGR) #2 – That 34% CAGR means that social media spending is growing faster than any other interactive marketing category #3 […]
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