Most Widely Read Online Newspaper in UK
The Sun was the most widely read online UK newspaper for the month of March 2008. Here is a list of the Top 10:
1. The Sun Online
2. Guardian.co.uk
3. Telegraph Group
4. Times Online
5. DailyMail.co.uk
6. Independent.co.uk
7. Mirror.co.uk
8. Financial Times Group
9. Metro.co.uk
10. ThisIsLondon.co.uk
14 May 08 | Miscellaneous | What Percent of Mother’s Day Shopping is Online?
Mother’s day is two days away. And people are busy making purchases for gifting their moms. So, what percent of that is online?
Malls - 28%
Discount Stores - 23%
Department Stores - 21%
Online - 16%
Catalog - 2%
09 May 08 | Miscellaneous | Top Ten Canadian Website Companies for March 2008
The ranking takes all individual websites cumulatively under the banner of the parent company:
1. Google sites
2. Microsoft sites
3. Yahoo sites
4. Facebook
5. eBay
6. Wikipedia sites
7. AOL LLC
8. YellowPages Group
9. Amazon sites
10. Canoe Network
06 May 08 | Miscellaneous | Interesting Facts About LinkedIn Users
LinkedIn.com is World’s leading Social Network for Business Professionals. Here are a few interesting facts about the site:
User base: 17 21 million
Average Age: 41 years
Average Salary: $110,000
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01 May 08 | Miscellaneous | Market Share of Web Servers Based On Active Sites
The study was conducted on 162,662,052 sites for the month of March 2008. The market share rankings are:
1. Apache : 49.38%
2. Microsoft : 35.20%
3. Google : 8.33%
4. Sun : 0.26%
5. Lighttpd : 0.12%
26 Mar 08 | Miscellaneous | Perceived Impact of American Recession on Consumer Tech Spending
The currently unstable American market has taken its toll on the consumer tech spending. In a recent survey to understand the same,
only 19% respondents shall spend more on tech gadgets in the next 90 days
33% shall spend less on tech gadgets in the next 90 days
People tending to spend more in the coming months was close to 40 percent in November 2007 that dropped to 27 percent in January 2008.
20 Mar 08 | Miscellaneous | American Venture Capitalist Investments on Web 2.0 Companies in 2007
The list of VC investments in web 2.0 companies region-wise for the year 2007:
Bay Area : 72 deals worth $721 million (Including Facebook)
New England : 20 deals worth $158 million
Southern California : 14 deals worth $115 million
New York Metro : 25 deals worth $58 million
Pacific Northwest : 13 deals worth $140 million
South East : 7 deals worth $47 million
CO, AZ, UT : 7 deals worth $31 million
Texas : 2 deals worth $4 million
North Carolina : 2 deals worth $10 million
20 Mar 08 | Miscellaneous | Top 5 Videos on Youtube
Here is the most recent list of the top 5 videos on Youtube:
1. CANSEI DE SER SEXY Music is My Hot Hot Sex
2. Evolution of Dance
3. Avril Lavigne - Girlfriend
4. My Chemical Romance - Teenagers
5. My Chemical Romance - Famous Last Words
05 Mar 08 | Miscellaneous | Europeans Spend on Technology and Their Technology Handicap
The combined worth of all the TVs, HiFis, speakers, video and DVD players, digital recorders and satellite boxes in their homes is estimated to be worth €362 billion. However, in 24% of the European households, only one person knows to operate all the technology at home. The reason is not hard to see:
49% of households have five or more remote controls
87% of households have three or more remote controls
05 Mar 08 | Miscellaneous | Share of Digital Music Among Music Sales
In USA, Digital Music now accounts of nearly 30 percent of the total sales in the music industry. In Europe, this share is around 20 percent. Sales from Digital music is estimated to have reached $2.9 billion by the end of 2007. This is about 40 percent of the figures for 2006. The revenues of 2007 come from the legal downloads of nearly 1.7 billion music tracks.
29 Feb 08 | Miscellaneous |