The latest stats for search engine use have come in from metrics firm StatCounter. According to the firm, Bing has passed Yahoo globally in the number of users for the first time ever. The research firm has noted that Bing reached 4.37% of the global search market in February whereas Yahoo has 3.93% of the global search market.
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Bing beats Yahoo globally for first time
Google To Invest Millions On Celebrity Youtube Channels
The recent boom of YouTube stars may get pushed aside by established Hollywood stars. Google is looking to entice established celebrities with $5 million dollars for their own YouTube channel of original content. The money would cover salaries, production values, and the celebrity would get full ownership of the show. Google hopes to get twenty celebrity channels, which equals to a $100 million investment. They can afford the price tag by making it back quickly with the premium advertising they plan to run on the channels. The move mirrors what AOL and Yahoo are doing with personal celebrity channels, but YouTube has a much larger footprint and distribution network.
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Photos From Obama’s Tech Dinner
The White House has released photos of President Obama’s tech leader consortium at a dinner last night. The dinner was attended by most of Silicon Valley’s top CEO’s and people who generally manage and direct your digital lives.
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Yahoo Announces LiveStand Digital Newstand
Yahoo has unveiled details on its latest push into the mobile media market with Livestand, a digital newsstand platform that will land sometime in the first half of 2011. Livestand will cater the content to the reader’s interest by giving personalized digital newsstand from publishers based on their choices.
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Yahoo! IMAP issue affects iPhone too reveals email sniffing
Yahoo! wasn't happy with Microsoft blaming their email systems for the Windows Phone 7 "phantom data" bug; the company pulled out a long list of rival OSes and suggested since none of them issues it was actually Microsoft's flaky IMAP support to blame. Unfortunately it seems they can't shake responsibility quite that easily; Within Windows' Rafael - who actually figured out the original Yahoo! issue hours before Microsoft announced it - has discovered that a similar problem occurs on the iPhone, too.
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Yahoo! strikes back over Windows Phone 7 email bug: Microsoft IMAP app to blame
Yahoo! has responded to Microsoft publicly naming & shaming them over the Windows Phone 7 phantom data bug, arguing that it's in fact a poor IMAP implementation that is at fault. In a statement to Pocket-lint, the company pointed out that "Yahoo! Mail is widely available on tens of millions of mobile phones," and that "the issue on the Windows Phones is specific to how Microsoft chose to implement IMAP for Yahoo! Mail and does not impact Yahoo! Mail on these other mobile devices."
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Yahoo! Mail cause of Windows Phone 7 phantom data use
Microsoft has blamed Yahoo! Mail and an "inefficiency" with the Windows Phone 7 email client for the phantom data use some users have reported. The confirmation, sent to WindowsPhoneSecrets, follows Microsoft's previous statement that an unnamed third-party service was the cause of the issue, which saw Windows Phone 7 devices using large quantities of 3G data without apparent reason.
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Haier Unveils Line of New WiFi-Enabled TVs at CES 2011
For TVs, having a connection to the Internet, where users can access applications in some fashion or another, has been a big point at this year's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. For Haier, which have officially unveiled a new line of Internet-connected TVs, it's about the hardware as much as it is the partnership that they've developed with Yahoo!.
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Facebook Visited More Than Google in 2010, Traffic Analyst Firm Says
To be "bigger than Google" in the tech world is a pretty big feat. But for Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, it's something that he can officially mark off of his "to-do" list, if he's got one. According to Hitwise, a traffic analyst firm, the social networking site has officially surpassed the search giant as the most visited website in 2010, and by a pretty significant margin, no less. These numbers, though, reflect traffic based in the United States only, though.
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SlashGear Morning Wrap-Up: December 29 2010
Take a peek at a prediction column by Chris Davies: 2011: The Year of Pentaband? Glance in awe as Paul Allen sues Apple, Google, YouTube, Facebook, Yahoo, AOL, eBay, Netflix, OfficeMax, and Staples, all at once. Giggle to yourself as you see France enact a tablet tax which exempts only Windows devices. Scratch your head as Verizon plans to focus on Android, not a new iPhone, at CES. Dance with glee as Sony Ericsson's 1GHz XPeria Mini Pro's replacement leaks with stats! Wonder at Rovios elite strategy as ad consistency, location, method changes for Angry Birds on Android devices. All this and MORE on SlashGear Morning Wrap-Up!
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Paul Allen patent suit refiled: App Store, iTunes, Gmail & more all cited
As expected, Paul Allen and his legal team have resubmitted a revised legal suit in its broad-ranging patent infringement case, after a judge threw the previous version out of court for being insufficiently detailed. Allen claims Apple, Google, YouTube, Facebook, Yahoo, AOL, eBay, Netflix, OfficeMax and Staples all impinge on patented tech developed at short-lived investment Interval Research Corp.; the new submission details specific products and services each defendant offers that the lawyers believe impinges on the patents. In Apple's case, that includes item-comparison functionality in iTunes, Apple TV, the App Store and the Dashboard.
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Foursquare Users Pass 5 Million, Gets Offered $140 Million Bucks for Ownership
You know what this means? You know what the fact that Foursquare has 5 million users means? I means they're doing quite well, especially considering the fact that at SXSW (March) of 2010, Foursquare announced they had more than a half million users. Everyone thought that was gigantic. In April of 2010, they passed 1 million. Now Foursquare CEO and co-founder stands on a stage at LeWeb (say hi to Vince!) Conference in Paris noting that Foursquare had surpassed the five million user mark. That's a lot of shouts.
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