My response to an acquaintance regarding the new .Co domains and one’s ability to appraise their market potential - .Co’s are new and like all the other new TLDs that have came after .Com, the majority of their value will lie in the eyes of their beholders.
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The Hindu Google Blasts Apple's New iPhone Advertising Terms > GOOG AAPL Wall Street Journal US regulators agreed, clearing Google to buy rival mobile advertising firm AdMob in May for $750 million, and noting that Apple's entry into the market ... Google slams Apple over iPhone ad ban Reuters Google upset with Apple's new advertising rules Mobile Burn Google slams Apple over ads policy Inquirer GigaOm (blog) all 1,058 news articles??
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From ABI Research: Global shipments of mobile handsets grew 19% year-over-year during Q1 2010. In total, 303 million mobile handsets shipped worldwide during Q1 2010. This puts annual global mobile handset shipments on pace to reach about 1.3 billion in 2010. Strongest handset shipment growth was seen in the Middle East and Africa (20% year-over-year) followed by the Americas, particularly the US (11%). Europe, on the other hand, is languishing with single-digit growth. It is also notable that 3G handset shipments eclipsed 2G handset shipments globally. Nokia held one-third (34%) of global mobile handset market share during Q1 2010. New smartphones such as the N8 are helping Nokia to shore up its handset portfolio, according to ABI Research analysis, as its loss of traction in the smartphone sector hit sales hard. Revamped efforts in Nokia’s Symbian product line are intended to help it regain momentum. Mobile Handset Vendor Market Share World Market 1Q 2010
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From Compete: Shopping Search Volume What Compete’s data tells us: The fact that the overall search query volume in March is lower than December’s total shouldn’t come as a surprise, given that it’s no longer the season for gift giving. Shopping search volume did experience a slight lift – 1.0% – from February to March. Not exactly earth-shattering news; however, interesting trends start to emerge in terms of search market share among the major engines when looking specifically at the shopping vertical. As opposed to web search overall, where Google dominates, Bing is growing, and Yahoo is declining (or staying steady at least for now) – the picture is quite different: Ask and AOL remain minor players, that hasn’t changed. While Google is still the market share leader, Yahoo and Bing each own over 30% of the total shopping vertical search volume. In fact, Yahoo experienced the highest M-O-M lift with a 4.6% lift from February.Ask and AOL remain minor players, that hasn’t changed. While Google is still the market share leader, Yahoo and Bing each own over 30% of the total shopping vertical search volume. In fact, Yahoo experienced the highest M-O-M lift with a 4.6% lift from February. I’m not sure how Compete arrives at their determination of what constitutes a shopping query but it seems somewhat unlikely that the top three properties could have a nearly even share of shopping search queries while also having significantly different search volume market shares.
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