january

YouTube received 9.8 billion video views in the U.S. for the month of January, down slightly from December's record-breaking totals of 10.1 billion, comScore reported today.

Following the holiday bonanza, January can be a dead month for many retailers.  Recent numbers from Nielsen revealed the ten companies that best survived (in terms of online conversion rates) the quiet time.

Research firm the NPD Group has released its U.S. retail sales figures for January 2008. Software sales for the month were up by 11 percent to $611 million, hardware sales dropped by a quarter to $378 million. Overall the industry was down 6 percent for the month managing to reach $1.18 billion compared to January 2007 sales of $1.25 billion.

Companies are always trying to pass off deceiving statements or misleading data, and we pride ourselves on being suspicious types.  January AOL numbers have been presented by Frank Gruber, however, and they look pretty good in terms of both believability and AOL's performance.

It’s no secret that Google is the top dog in the realm of search. Perched atop the mountain, the company has yet to be knocked off of its perch, or even face any serious threat to its dominance in the industry. According to January’s figure, don’t look for that trend to change anytime soon.

The New Year started for the Mozilla Foundation's Firefox browser as it did for a lot of people, with a little bit of an unsteady step backwards.

A recent trademark filing by Apple for the iPhone moniker all but solidifies that a mobile mp3-media-gaming-wifi-everything phone could be announced as early as January.

From August 2005 to January 2006, monthly sponsored link ad impressions from Yahoo and Google rose from 55.4 billion to 64.3 billion, according to the latest research from Nielsen//NetRatings.