Congratulations, American internet consumers: You’ve just set a new weekly record for online spending. ComScore is reporting that three days last week saw individual sales break the $1 billion barrier, with Cyber Monday spending setting an all-new one-day record of $1.25 billion. Overall, online spending for the week reached almost $6 billion–$5,959,000,000 to be more [...]
A new report reveals that Research in Motion lost 1.8 million BlackBerry subscribers in the third quarter of the year, marking a 10% drop in subscriber numbers despite the release of the new BlackBerry 7 towards the end of that period.
Almost 7% of the web traffic in the U.S. is coming from smartphones and tablets. As of August 2011, “the share of non-computer traffic for the U.S. stood at 6.8 percent,” reports ComScore, “with approximately two-thirds of that traffic coming from mobile phones, and tablets accounting for much of the remainder.” Guess which tablet grabbed [...]
Who watches the men that watch the world wide web? Apparently, the answer is “each other.” The Nielsen Company has filed a lawsuit against ComScore over five patents connected to the tracking, reporting and analysis of web traffic and computer activity, which Nielsen claims are being violated by ComScore. Interestingly enough, one of the patents, [...]
Its future may be uncertain, but when it comes to watching television online, users still prefer Hulu, it seems. According to ComScore’s new Digital Year in Review report, Hulu’s audience watched 19.4 million minutes of video, more than twice as much as the combined total of video streamed from the websites of ABC, CBS, the [...]
Do you spend as much time watching television as you do online? Apparently, it depends on who you ask. A survey released by Forrester Research earlier this week got a lot of attention for its claim that the average American spends an equal time – around 13 hours per week – doing both, the first [...]
For those of you who made an online purchase on Cyber Monday, congratulations you helped set the record for the biggest shopping day in online history. About $1.3 billion dollars was spent the Monday after Thanksgiving alone, up 16 percent since last year, according to comScore.
ComScore has just released its numbers for May for U.S. smartphone owners over the age of 13. Wait. What does a 13-year-old need a smartphone for? According to comScore, 49.1 million Americans owned a smartphone from February to the end of May, which is an 8.1 percent increase from the previous three-month period ending in [...]
