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Rebecca Lee

Google sites top Yahoo as No. 1 internet destination « News [Brafton] - 0 views

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Yahoo vs Google

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  • Google sites – ranging from the company's search engine to YouTube
  • This is only the second time in the past six months that Google has managed to come out on top of the company's web property rankings.
  • Microsoft, Facebook and AOL rounded out the top five, with Microsoft garnering 174 million visitors, Facebook attracting 162 million and AOL drawing 105 million visitors. Overall, more than 215 million Americans used the web in July, up 1 million from the previous month
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  • Given the timing with the launch of Google+ on June 28
  • strates how many American consumers use Google and the other major search engines. The top three internet destinations are all owned by companies with search engines, and by leveraging search-optimized news content, businesses will be able to extend their companies' reach and generate more exposure.#dd_ajax_float{background:none;float:left;margin-left:-120px;margin-right:10px;margin-top:10px;position:absolute;z-index:1}.fb_iframe_widget{margin-left:10px}.dd_button_v{padding:8px 0}Want to receive Brafton news automatically? Join our daily or weekly email list! Filed under News · Tagged with: Bing, Google, Yahoo Disqus Login About Disqus Glad you liked it. Would you like to share? Facebook Twitter Share No thanks Sharing this page … Thanks! Close Login Add New Comment Post as … Image Sort by popular now Sort by best rating Sort by newest first Sort by oldest first Showing 0 comments M Subscribe by email S RSS Reactions Google sites top Yahoo as No. 1 internet destination http://t.co/4iUX7kI 7 hours ago <d
  • ComScore's data illustrates how many American consumers use Google and the other major search engine
  • op three internet destinations are all owned by companies with search engines
Giang V

What HP's TouchPad fire sale tells iPad rivals - Telegraph - 0 views

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HP TouchPad fire sale tells iPad rivals Amazon Kindle

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  • What HP's TouchPad fire sale tells iPad rivals For a short time this week, the TouchPad was the world’s most wanted gadget. Now with stocks sold out, HP is left to wonder what might have been.
  • Hundreds of thousands of TouchPads have been sold in days, after HP announced it would stop manufacturing its would-be iPad competitor.
  • The sudden desirability of the device was of course due to heavy discounting. Currys and PC World were selling their stocks off for just £89, down from the original RRP of £399.
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  • each of the gadgets cost HP at least £180 just to build, so selling the Touchpad for £89 would never have been considered until the firm decided to abandon it.
  • others hoping to loosen Apple’s stranglehold on the tablet computing market.
  • The main Google Android tablets, made by Samsung and Motorola, are pitched at around the same £400-ish price point as the iPad. But, put together with all the other Android tablets, it’s estimated they are outsold by Apple’s devices eight to one.
  • Amazon, which is rumoured to be preparing to release an Android tablet this autumn. Like Apple with the iPad, it has built and dominated a market for itself with the Kindle, its hugely successful e-reader.
  • Kindle’s success is its relatively low price of £111
Hye Rin Bae

Google says it would pay more tax in UK - Telegraph - 0 views

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UK google would be willing to pay higher taxes

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  • Dr Eric Schmidt said Google would be willing to pay higher taxes.
  • The technology giant has come under heavy fire for using tax laws to avoid paying a more
  • The technology giant has come under heavy fire for using tax laws to avoid paying a more significant level of corporate tax in the past.
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  • tax in the past.
  • significant
  • level of
  • corporate
  • Mr Schmidt told the Edinburgh Television Festival yesterday that Google "loves" Britain and would pay more tax if it were legally required to do so. He said the company's hands were tied by Britain's low tax demands.
  • "It is true we could pay more tax but we would have to do so voluntarily. It's called paying the legally minimum amount of tax required," he said.
  • Mr Schmidt's comments come after months of
  • surrounding the UK's corporate tax system, which has seen campaign group UK
  • controversy
  • Uncut
  • target high street chains including Vodafone, Boots and Barclays.
Mojo joanne

Mozilla Firefox 6 review - PC Advisor - 0 views

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technology firefox webbrowser

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  • It was only a couple of months ago that we reviewed Mozilla’s Firefox 5 web browser, which came hot on the heels of our Firefox 4 review
  • Firefox 6. It’s hard to keep up with these rapid-fire web browser updates.
  • Firefox updates used to creep out under small incremental version numbers, such as 3.6.4
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  • There are more than a thousand changes under the hood of the latest version of Firefox.
  • Google's Chrome web browser isn't much better - already reaching version 10
  • Ancient browser Microsoft Interner Explorer has only recently&nbsp; staggered to version 9
  • Firefox 6 isn’t a minor upgrade
  • only a few of these changes provide worthwhile reasons for upgrading to the newest release of the browser.
  • Firefox 6 speed increases The first reason to upgrade to Firefox 6 is speed, although that point is debatable.
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