Tag: Yahoo

Google grabs majority of US mobile search revenue

Google will end 2010 with a 59% share of the $877 million US mobile advertising market, according to a new report from IDC. The US mobile-ad market, including search and display ads, has more than doubled since last year, when it reached $368 million in sales. IDC attributes the growth to companies devoting larger slices…

iPad users are big consumers of business news

Yahoo’s Ashley Cheng has released a second analysis of iPad usage across their various services eg Flickr, Yahoo Finance, Yahoo News etc and the results confirmed what we thought eg iPad users are predominantly male, middle-aged (35+) and are all crazy for news, and the UK has one of the geekiest iPad markets in the…

Yahoo launches Sketch-a-search for iPhone

Yahoo has launched two new search apps for the iPhone Sketch-a-Search http://itunes.com/apps/yahoosketchasearch and Yahoo Search http://itunes.com/apps/yahoosearch Yahoo has partnered with more than 80 leading carriers and original equipment manufacturers around the world to deliver what it calls a “an industry-leading mobile search experience” and Sketch-a-search certainly fits the bill. Here’s Yahoo’s explanation of it Yahoo…