Image: Flickr Today, digital researcher comScore released figures for Europe’s Internet usage for September this year. The results showed that there were over 373 million unique users of the Internet in Europe during that month. Those users spent an average of 26.4 hours online during September, visiting almost 3,000 web pages each. We’ve ranked...
See Also: A Perfect Snapshot Of The Confusion At AOL’s Most Important Site Brad Garlinghouse Is Quitting AOL A rough day for AOL… First comes news that the head of Commerce and Applications, Brad Garlinghouse, is quitting. And now, says Bloomberg, TechCrunch writer Sarah Lacy is quitting, too. No word yet on what Sarah...
Roger McNamee might think that we are in the midst of the revolution, but according to Microsoft Chief Strategy and Research Officer Craig Mundie, the race to become the dominant technology company of the digital age hasn’t really even begun yet. Mundie, whom I interviewed yesterday in Tucson, Arizona at Techonomy, believes that the...
The web is less than enthused by Google Music, which made its debut today with the usual fanfare. The criticism is withering in the usual semi-entitled way. “Where’s the Spotify killer?” “Rdio already does this!” “So it’s basically iTunes match?” There are two things the critics decline to acknowledge: that Google is providing a...
In a blog post today, MailRank announced that its founders would be moving to Facebook in December. Is Facebook trying to revamp last year’s failed email experiment? For now, the answer is no. Facebook is not acquiring any technology or other assets from MailRank. We reached out to a Facebook spokesperson who confirmed that...
Google has an uphill battle in front of it when it comes to competing with Apple in this space, which is currently dominated by iTunes. To do that, Google is throwing in some extra features and exclusive content, which it hopes will draw people to Google Music and at the same time, help bolster...
Facebook is pursuing legal action after it identified the perpetrator of a virus which saw the site flooded by pornographic and violent images after large numbers of user accounts fell victim to spam. According to a statement from Facebook, via The Register, it has identified the source responsible for the issue, which is thought to have been caused...
Technology podcast This Week in Asia (TWiA) has just posted its 100th episode which we thought was the perfect excuse to catch up with the guys behind the show. Starting out The podcast is run by Malaysia-based Daniel Cerventus, the man behind Entrepreneurs Malaysia website, and Singapore-based Dr Bernard Leong, who is CTO at Chalkboard. The duo,...
Brad Garlinghouse, President of the Applications and Commerce Group and head of AOL’s Silicon Valley operations is leaving the beleaguered online service AOL, according to multiple sources. Garlinghouse is well known in Silicon Valley as the author of the 2006 Peanut Butter Manifesto that outlined many of the problems with Yahoo. Various sources inside AOL...
ATT’s proposed WCS spectrum sale Sprint believes it has caught to have ATT in a ‘gotcha!’ moment. While ATT is using the threat of a spectrum crunch as justification to buy T-Mobile, Ma Bell is trying to sell off mobile broadband airwaves it already owns. In a letter to the Federal Communications Commission, Sprint...