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"Today brought yet another forecast for ther 2009 display advertising. Since it’s hard to keep all the various ad forecasts straight—particularly with the frequent revisions—here’s a quick rundown of some from the past three months from prominent internet ad revenue prognosticators"
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"Last year we announced the launch of local news in the U.S., and this week we launched this feature of Google News to users in the UK, India, and Canada."
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"The UK Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB UK), based on polling data from Lightspeed Research, has released information on how the content of digital advertisements affects viewer interest—as well as on the effectiveness of different online ad formats. "
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"Research conducted exclusively for Marketing by Nielsen shows that some of the UK's top telecoms, technology and gambling brands increased their investment in online advertising in 2008. However, finance brands, which previously dominated the medium, severely curtailed their budgets in response to the global financial crisis."
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"Microsoft last week lost European browser market leadership for the first time in years, when Mozilla's Firefox 3 took the top spot from Internet Explorer 7, Web analytics firm StatCounter said on Tuesday." [via @gregsterling]
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"The Knot is launching 75 new localized sites in the hopes of reaching brides-to-be from Tampa to Tucson."
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"The results from the seventh annual AOP Census survey released today reveals that UK online publishers predict a 16% growth in their digital revenues in 2009 "
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US: "According to data released yesterday by the IAB/PwC on Q4 and full year 2008 online advertising revenues, performance-based advertising and search gained while other segments declined slightly or were flat. Overall, online advertising grew 10.6% in 2008 to reach $23.4 billion."
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US: "Internet advertising revenues in the US remain strong, with Q408 revenues hitting $6.1 billion, and revenues for the year topping $23 billion, according to the 2008 Internet Advertising Revenue Report from the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) and PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PwC). "
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"The long awaited Google venture capital fund, Google Ventures, is now open for business. The Fund is led by managing partners Bill Maris and Rich Miner."
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"Up to 71% of consumers in the US and 41% in parts of Western Europe anticipate that they will use the mobile internet and other mobile data services on a daily basis over the next two years – with a significant ramp-up in the next 12 months, according to a survey from Tellabs."
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"As promised by no less a personage than Om Malik himself, the official Skype iPhone client has arrived. Although video streaming is a no-show, both full IM and voice communication is supported directly over wireless networks."
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"Today I would like to share my thoughts on various mobile phone user interfaces." [via @mattcutts]
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"Just over a year after launching his Wikia Search engine, Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales is closing it down, citing the economy. Wikia Search attempted to duplicate Wikipedia’s success by allowing users to edit and suggest search results for different queries."
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"It’s been three years since I started this blog. The first (on topic) post was back in 2006 and it was a short post blogging Katie Couric’s move to NBC which prompted Newsweek to ponder if “the real action in TV news may be happening on the Web”"
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