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Google got a late Christmas present from IBM last week when it purchased 217 patents from the company in areas such as data caching, video conferencing, instant messaging software and network performance. The transfer of the patents — 188 already granted with a further 29 pending — was noted by SEO by the Sea blogger [...]
Well, now you can guess how many people got iPads, iPhones and Android devices for Christmas: Last week saw a massive jump in the number of devices activated and apps downloaded, with the latter number reaching a record 1.2 billion apps across iOS and Android devices. That’s significantly up from the previous record of 857 million. [...]
The Tweet Smarter blog has released a chart of 2011′s most popular subjects in terms of how many tweets they produced per second, and the leader by a wide margin is the December 13 Japanese television screening of Hayao Miyazaki’s animated movie Castle in the Sky, which resulted in a staggering 25,088 tweets per second.
Around 40% of Facebook users access the social networking site via mobile app, according to a research firm, with half of all active iOS and Android users (as well as an estimated 70% of BlackBerry users) installing the Facebook app.
Google+ may be considered the ugly duckling of social networks by some, but as Google+ statistician Paul Allen explains, the network is growing at an impressive rate, adding 625,000 new users per day.
Online movie piracy dropped in 2011 compared with the previous year, with the most torrented movie of the year—Fast Five, the fifth in the The Fast and The Furious series—only shared nine million times, compared with 2010′s top pirated flick, Avatar, downloaded 16 million times.
Rebecca Black has another reason to celebrate Friday, with her disturbingly catchy song named by YouTube as its most-watched video of the year, with a staggering 180 million views since it was first uploaded in March, but the title comes with a catch.
It sounds like Yahoo! likes its Facebook integration—the company announced yesterday that it will roll out the feature to 26 additional sites, including Yahoo! TV, Yahoo! Movies and Yahoo! Games, following the success of the launch period, which has seen more than one million Yahoo! stories shared on the social network, with a daily average of 500,000 referrals to Yahoo! from Facebook.
If you thought the $4 billion charge that AT&T was left owing Deutsche Telekom after abandoning the merger with their subsidiary T-Mobile seemed a little steep, don’t worry—they’re only likely to pay a small chunk of that, thanks to the wonders of tax deductions.
If you build the content, they will come. Hulu.com saw an impressive 23% bump in traffic for November compared with the same period last year, according to comScore’s analysis, with 34.5 million unique viewers for the month.
With more people watching online video in the U.S., we can be reassured that advertisers have done their best to stay on top of what is clearly a growing market for their business. According to comScore’s November 2011 U.S. Online Video Rankings, 15% of all videos viewed online last month were advertisements.
