A new eMarketer report analyzes the maturing, but still growing, US Internet market. Although growth has slowed to the low single digits in recent years—projected to be just 3.1% in 2008—US Internet users can be counted in the hundreds of millions. eMarketer projects that this year there will be 193.9 million US Internet users—about two-thirds [...]
You’ve gotta see these guys. Talk about unhappy customers! Apple should include this in a viral marketing program and point out the fact that none of these people are using Mac’s glumbert – Bad Day at the Office
Posted on February 12, 2008, 12:57 pm, by sharilee, under
Web.
Asia-Pacific and Latin America will see the highest growth rates in Internet use over the next 5 years according to eMarketer. Of course there’s still plenty of room for growth as 82.5% of the world’s population is not online. According to recent estimates there were 6.6 billion people in the world in 2007. Of that [...]
Posted on February 9, 2008, 3:20 pm, by sharilee, under
Media.
This in today’s Wall Street Journal: Yahoo Inc.’s board plans to reject Microsoft Corp.’s unsolicited $44.6 billion offer to acquire the Web giant, a person familiar with the situation says. After a series of meetings over the past week, Yahoo’s board determined that the $31 per share offer “massively undervalues” Yahoo, the person said. It [...]
Lyme Disease affects hundreds of thousands across the US. It’s become a political minefield, for no good reason. So activists have taken to grassroots marketing to fight the medical professionals who are standing in the way of a cure. This wonderful kid we know who has Lyme Disease, wrote this the other day: It’s 3:18 [...]
Posted on February 2, 2008, 3:57 pm, by sharilee, under
Blogs.
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Will such a monstrous combination be good or bad for the world of online marketing? The acquisition, valued at about $44.6 billion, would certainly be a good move for Microsoft, whose MSN.com site has been running a distant third in terms of search traffic and online ad revenue for years. Google dominates and Yahoo consistently [...]