Tag: "market"
Search Engine Market Share – July/August 2011
It’s been a little while since we looked at the Search Engine market shares in Australia. We reported some figures in April and wanted to check now and see if there has been any movement. According to the gs.statcounter website these are the Australian market share figures for July 2011: Google – 94.02% Bing - 3.87% Yahoo […]
Read More | Share3 Benefits of Twitter in Social Media Marketing
The success of a business rises and falls on marketing. It doesn’t matter how great your product is. If people don’t know about it then it won’t sell. For this reason, huge companies have made a science out of marketing. They continually study and improve the way they market their products. Right now, the trend […]
Read More | ShareThe Future of Facebook, 7:30 Report Video
What is the future of Facebook? Will they get into the lucrative and enormous Chinese market? It looks like Facebook has this goal in mind. How will other social networks like Twitter and Google Plus impact Facebook’s growth past it’s current 750 million members? If you missed the 7:30 Report last night on ABC – […]
Read More | ShareFoursquare integrates with LivingSocial
Geolocation application Foursquare has released version 3.3 of their iOS app and this includes some big new features, mainly integration with deal-a-day websites LivingSocial and GiltCity. LivingSocial has deals for the Australian market, whereas GiltCity is only servicing the US at the moment – however international expansion is probably high on their list. Another handy […]
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 | ShareFacebook looking to move into China?
At the moment Facebook is blocked in China – thanks to the great firewall of China. Facebook is looking to soon push north of 600 million users. Many western internet companies have failed to capture the Chinese internet market – mainly for 2 reasons. 1. Government intervention/ policies 2. The western companies do not understand […]
Read More | ShareAustralian Search Engine Market update October 2010
Looking at the Search Engine market shares for October there really are not many surprises. Unlike the USA – Yahoo in Australia has never commanded much of the search queries generated whilst Google has been around. Even with the Yahoo7! partnership and limited TV advertising Yahoo receives this has not impacted their search market share […]
Read More | ShareAndroid Market Update – September 2010
With so much media attention always going to Apple and their iOS platform, its worth taking a look at how Android is fairing in the competitive mobile market. Here are some new stats worth taking note of in regards to the Android mobile platform: – 200,000 Android phones are sold everyday. – 97,000 (approx) applications […]
Read More | Share10 Reasons Why Facebook wont Enter the Search Market
Facebook is very close to hitting 500 million users worldwide – 500 million users who spent a lot of time on the site. Many people are questing if Facebook could become a viable search engine with the mass following they currently have. Getting people to come to Facebook and making it their default place for […]
Read More | ShareFoursquare v Gowalla [FACTS]
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Over the past year there has been lot of talk about Geolocation mobile services Foursquare and Gowalla. There are more players in this space but these 2 hold a majority of the location market. A recent report by RJMetrics compared the services via their API data. Some key facts to note: – Foursquare now has […]
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