Yahoo! has posted a 10% quarterly lift in revenue for the last three months of 2009, driven by a significant increase in demand for its premium display advertising.
The global internet company achieved revenue of $1.73bn in the fourth quarter, still down 4% year on year, but its best performance of 2009. It also achieved profits [...]
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Yahoo’s display ads boost revenue
Posted by melissa in January 27th 2010
Manchester United players banned from social networking sites
Posted by melissa in January 21st 2010
Manchester United has banned players from using social networking sites, which has led to the Twitter accounts of stars Wayne Rooney and Ryan Giggs disappearing from the web.
In an official statement on the Manchester United website last night entitled “Player websites warning” the club said all official news relating to the club would appear on [...]
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Vitamin Water’s Facebook flavour launched
Posted by melissa in January 11th 2010
Coca-Cola has unveiled a new flavour for its Glaceau Vitaminwater drink called Connect, after a promotion run on social network site Facebook.
The drink, available in the US from March, carries Facebook branding and descriptive text, using references to untagging, friend requests and photo stalking.
Connect is the result of a competition run on Vitaminwater’s Facebook site, [...]
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Ronaldo named as top sports star on Facebook
Posted by melissa in January 7th 2010
Real Madrid’s Portuguese international striker Cristiano Ronaldo is the most popular sports star on popular social networking site, Facebook.
The flamboyant footballer could count 3.2 million fans on his social network site on Wednesday, putting him ahead of Swiss tennis star Roger Federer with 3.18 million and US swimmer Michael Phelps, 2.86 million.Ronaldo, 24, arrived in Real Madrid from [...]
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