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Tumblr In 2012: More Original Content, Less F*** Yeah Memes

Tumblr, the microblogging service which allows users to share images at the click of a button, has big plans to begin creating original content. This follows a year in which they gained more than 20 million new users. But what will they do about those pesky service outages and spam problems?READ»

SAM FORD   |  Comment

Did Retailers Risk Damage to Their Brands Despite Hit Holiday Online Sales?

Amid e-commerce glitches and technology's growing pains, retailers can still win the loyalty of customers. Here's how. READ»

How $1.25 Billion Gets Spent In A Day: "Austerity Fatigue" And High Tech

Checking in with IBM, comScore, Mercent, and Envirosell to play Cyber Monday quarterback. Or, as IBM's John Squire calls it: "The best day ever."READ»

In Mobile, Majority Of Ad Impressions And Clicks Come From Tablet Users

The iPad might only be 18 months old, but she and her Android siblings are getting users to pay attention and click. Tablets are also taking the lion's share of mobile advertising dollars. READ»

To Spread Your Brand On Facebook, Don't Target Your Fans--Target Their Friends

Facebook and ComScore have teamed up for a new service, Social Essentials. It offers unprecedented insights into the influence of brands on social media, complete with detailed credit card behavior, and findings suggest it's not really your brand's fans you need to worry about--it's their friends. READ»

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ComScore: Groupon-Living Social Battle Brewing In The New Wild West

A new analysis shows that the race between online discount services Groupon, Living Social, and others is less about what they're offering or even how they're offering it and more about where they're prospecting. READ»

IFIVE   |  Comment

iFive: Facebook Slimes Google And Doubts China Expansion, New York Times Traffic Slip, Asian Software Piracy, Yelp In Spain

Slow getting into the swing of the day? Here's iFive, our early news summary, to help:READ»

HULU   |  Comment

Does Hulu Have Too Many Ads?

According to a recent report by comScore, Hulu delivers more video ads than Google, AOL, Microsoft, and CBS Interactive--combined.READ»

Top Google Engineer: Google Instant Has No Brand Bias

Noticed how the Instant results tend to focus on brand names like Amazon and Target when you start typing? Top Google search engineer Amit Singhal puts lingering rumors to rest on that: it's just math.READ»

IFIVE   |  Comment

iFive: Gawker Hacked, WikiLeaks Rival Out, Holiday Spending Goes Digital, The Atlantic Magazine's Money, Sports Illustrated App

Another week begins, innovation slaps on its office attire, downs a coffee and catches the train into work: So here's the early news, ready for you to do the same:READ»

GOOGLE   |  Comment

How Google Instant's New Rules Turn a Sneeze Into Ad Impressions

Analytics guru Dr. Sid Shah discusses how the search giant has quietly and massively changed the online ad game again--in favor of big brands. READ»

APPLE   |  Comment

As Consumers Steer Clear of Mobile Music Downloads, iTunes Continues to Run the Show

New data released last night by ComScore shows that we might be waiting a while for the much speculated about mobile version of iTunes (or else, it'll pop up in Vietnam). Consumers, it seems, are continuing to manage their media ...READ»

Dumbphone Statistics: Oh Right, Not Everyone Has a Smartphone

It's easy to forget that smartphones don't dominate the mobile phone market. Here are the stats for the first quarter of 2010: The top cellphone sellers might surprise you. RIM (BlackBerry)? Nope. Apple? Forget about it. Keep guessing.READ»

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Today in Most Innovative Companies

News of note from our Most Innovative Companies, including Hulu, PG&E, and Huawei.READ»

Seeking Mobile Magic as Search Engine Use Shrinks

Short of a cataclysmic event (such as discovering a planet with little aliens who deliver your queries via cute bubbles out of their mouths) nothing will loosen Google's stranglehold of the search engine market. However, the firm's ...READ»

New E-Commerce Report: Get Happy

Let's talk about happiness. (We'll save sex for another day--again!) When folks are happy they tend to be more confident, right? Or is it the other way around? In any case, plenty of people were both happy and confident enough about ...READ»

ComScore's New Study Finds Dope on "Movie Junkies"

Research group comScore released its study on "movie junkies" yesterday that surveyed the behavior of 500,000 moviegoers who bought tickets online in September 2009.READ»

You Are Now Entering the Touchscreen Smartphone Era

Touchscreen smartphones are the thing in the U.S. this year, with sales growing so rapidly it would give the Ares I-X a run for its money. And next year the pace of the change is going to be even faster. Welcome to the touchscreen ...READ»

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Americans Watched a Record-Setting 21.4 Billion Web Videos in July

Ah, summertime. There's no better time of year to shutter oneself indoors and watch videos on the Web--at least that's what the latest numbers released by comScore would suggest. In July, 158 million U.S. Internet users watched a ...READ»