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RSS comscoreGoogle helps measure up audiences
News The company was confirming details first reported by the Wall Street Journal about Google's plans to compete with established providers of eeb audience measurement tools such as comScore and Nielsen Media. [24 Jun 2008]
Battle of the social networks: Facebook outpaces MySpace
News New figures from metrics firm comScore show that, in May, the battle of the social-networking sites may have gained a new front-runner: Facebook appears to have surpassed long-time rival MySpace in worldwide unique visitors for the first time. [24 Jun 2008]
Microsoft-HP deal plans to boost Live Search
News Research firm comScore said Google's US web search market share rose to a record 61.5 per cent in April, while Yahoo! Microsoft has struck a deal with the world's largest PC maker, HP, to place a toolbar on new PCs that leads to its Live Search... [03 Jun 2008]
Microsoft's next plan: Make over Live Search
News Microsoft has been a distant third in search, accounting for 9.4 per cent of core US search queries in February, according to ComScore. Microsoft hopes to back up its refrain that it has a plan to catch Google by showing off some improvements to... [08 May 2008]
CNET launches internet TV
News Around 80 per cent of the UK's broadband users watch online video content, according to figures from Comscore. Online publisher CNET Networks UK has launched a standalone video website featuring exclusive TV content. [19 Nov 2007]
Online shoppers think plastic is fantastic for Xmas
News According to a survey of 2,500 consumers across France, Germany and the UK conducted by online behaviour research specialist comScore, 76 per cent of French online shoppers plan to buy presents now and pay later on their credit cards. [14 Nov 2007]
Facebook founder tops Agenda Setters list
News According to ComScore, the number of UK users has tripled to nine million during the past six months alone. Mark Zuckerberg, the 23-year-old founder and CEO of social networking site, Facebook, has been named the most influential person in tech for... [17 Oct 2007]
Microsoft blogger spills beans on search tweaks
News ComScore's August search results show Microsoft lost a percentage point of market share compared with July, attracting 12.3 per cent of searches. A Microsoft employee has posted details about planned changes to Microsoft's Live Search, ahead of an... [24 Sep 2007]
Shopping.com tops retail ranking
News Further data from ComScore Media Matrix found a 30 per cent year-on-year growth within the shopping comparison market as a whole, excluding finance, travel and utility comparison sites.eBay acquired Shopping.com in 2005 in a $620m cash transaction. [18 Sep 2007]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Media wars
Comment xml=/news/2007/08/23/nofcom123.xml http://tinyurl.com/37n7th (Daily Mail) http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30400-1281020,00.html http://www.comscore.com/press/release.asp? Written at the Institute of Directors in London and dispatched via... [31 Aug 2007]
Who's afraid of user-generated content?
News According to recent ComScore research, the site has year-on-year user growth here of more than 2,000 per cent over the past 12 months. The government's Central Office of Information (COI) has put a freeze on advertising on user-generated pages of... [06 Aug 2007]
MySpace vs Facebook: The race is on...
News According to figures from digital research group ComScore, MySpace had 10.76 million unique UK visitors in June 2007 and Facebook attracted slightly more than six million. Bob Ivins, executive VP of international markets at ComScore, said the... [01 Aug 2007]
In brief: Google university boost, Xerox print advance and graduate jobs
News Young adults between the ages of 15 and 25 spent 24 per cent more time online than the average UK internet user in April 2007, according to research from comScore. Trinity College Dublin has switched to using Google's email service, with the... [12 Jun 2007]
Ask revamps its search site
News and Microsoft but just ahead of AOL, with just more than five per cent market share, according to research company comScore. Ask is expected to launch a new search site that has analysts impressed but it may not appeal enough to consumers to get... [05 Jun 2007]
Brits are web addicts of Europe
News According to an internet activity study by comScore, the UK has the most active online population in Europe, with the highest average number of daily users (21.8 million), the greatest number of days of internet usage per month (21 per user) and... [04 Jun 2007]
