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News The announcement of a partnership with Nielsen on a product called BrandLift, which polls Facebook users on ads they see on the social network, was first reported by The Wall Street Journal. Nielsen... [22 Sep 2009]
Microsoft Bing gets Visual: Searching to gain on Google
News Latest Nielsen data says Bing gained 22 per cent month-over-month in August, taking it to 10.7 per cent of all US searches. Microsoft launched a new feature for its Bing search engine called Visual Search on Monday. [15 Sep 2009]
Apple working on a musical Cocktail with record labels?
News In 2008, according to industry tracker Nielsen, consumers bought over one billion digital tracks, compared with just 65 million digital albums. Apple and the major record labels are teaming up to create bundles of... [27 Jul 2009]
How much SEO is too much?
Comment Web design guru Jakob Nielsen certainly thinks so. You want your website to be noticed - but not without sacrificing quality. Stewart Baines weighs up the pros and cons of search engine optimisation. In my previous... [01 Jul 2009]
Microsoft's Kumo wrestling to keep things fresh?
News In April, the company had 9.9 per cent of the US search market, according to Nielsen Online. Once again, Microsoft is finding itself beaten to the punch in the search game. While it has been readying Kumo for its first... [21 May 2009]
Microsoft lets some users 'Kumo it'
News According to March numbers from Nielsen Online, Microsoft had 10.3 per cent of the US search market, as compared to 15.8 per cent for Yahoo! Microsoft has begun to broaden the testing of its next-generation search... [18 May 2009]
Twitter not for sale says Biz Stone
News According to Nielsen Online, which measures internet traffic, Twitter's website had more than seven million unique visitors in February, compared to 475,000 in February 2008. The popular microblogging and social... [08 May 2009]
Three-tier iTunes pricing to save digital music?
News Data from Nielsen SoundScan show album sales, once the profit engine of the music business, fell by 14 per cent in the US. Apple and major music labels are betting that the launch of three-tier pricing at the iTunes... [07 Apr 2009]
BBC's web TV project to "spawn a whole new industry"
News However, research by market researcher Nielsen last year found the average time spent watching TV has actually increased year-on-year. Project Canvas, the broadcast industry initiative to establish a common IPTV... [19 Feb 2009]
Mobile broadband usage to grow despite crunch
News The survey, which was commissioned by Tellabs and carried out by the Nielsen Company, was conducted in November last year and is based on responses from mobile users in France, Germany, Italy, the Spain, UK and the US. [16 Feb 2009]
Web sales no match for worst December in 14 years
News In addition to the BRC figures, market researcher Nielsen Online found the number of unique users for the top 10 online retailers between October and December was an average of 37 per cent higher year-on-year. [13 Jan 2009]
Borland CEO leaves for VMware COO job
News VMware on Tuesday named Tod Nielsen to be its chief operating officer, his sixth different company since the millennium. Nielsen had been Borland's chief executive since November 2005. In the role of... [07 Jan 2009]
Google grabs a bigger slice of search pie
News Searches at Microsoft's Windows Live Search site dropped again in November from a year ago, while Google's continued to rise, according to Nielsen Online figures released on Monday. Searches at Windows Live Search fell... [06 Jan 2009]
Digital leads music sales growth
News For 2008, total music sales rose 10 per cent to 1.51 billion units sold, up from 1.36 billion units the year before, according to industry tracker Nielsen. The biggest contributor to the growth was digital music,... [02 Jan 2009]
Microsoft nears Verizon search deal
News While mobile search is still a nascent market, Google controls the lion's share with 61 per cent, followed distantly by Yahoo with 18 per cent and Microsoft with 5 per cent, according to research company Nielsen. [12 Nov 2008]
