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The advertising industry as a whole isn't looking so great.  Yet ZenithOptimedia found that, in comparison to traditional competitors, online advertising appears to be healthy and growing.

New York City has the largest amount of technology workers in the U.S. according to a new study from the American Electronics Association (AeA)New York City led the nation with 316,500 technology jobs in 2006, according to the most current data available from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. The region added 6,400 tech jobs in 2006, the second fastest growing cybercity behind Seattle, which added 7,800 jobs. The average wage was $91,500, 46 percent higher than the average private sector wage in the area.

Anecdotal evidence and personal experience are all well and good, especially where popularity contests are concerned.  Hard data works, too, though, and Hitwise's Heather Hopkins has weighed in with stats on how Twitter is doing.

Since the beginning of October, the Dow has dropped nearly 1,400 points.  Even Google's lost its glow.  But Salesforce.com just posted fourth quarter financial numbers that beat analysts' expectations and represent year-over-year increases in almost every way possible.

Jason Schramm registered the domain KindleReport.com a while ago to report on Amazon’s ebook, the Kindle*.

Nintendo holiday sales of the Wii game console are off to a "fantastic start" according to a top executive with the company.

BuddeComm, an independent Australian telecommunications research firm has released a study that indicates strong new businesses models and booming growth in online advertising are rapidly building the foundations of the new Internet economy.

A new survey from the Arketi Group finds that 84 percent of journalists say they would or already have used blogs as a main source or secondary source for articles.