Ramolimendos » Yahoo http://ramolimendos.com Tue, 07 Apr 2009 05:05:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 en hourly 1 Google’s increased market share in October 08 – 71.7% http://ramolimendos.com/2008/11/googles-increased-market-share-in-october-08/ http://ramolimendos.com/2008/11/googles-increased-market-share-in-october-08/#comments Fri, 14 Nov 2008 23:39:17 +0000 ramolimendos http://ramolimendos.com/?p=420

Google continued to increase its U.S. search share dominance in October, widening its lead over Yahoo and Microsoft. In October, Google’s share of Web searches by people in the U.S. rose to 71.7 percent, up from 71.2 percent in September and 64.5 percent in October of 2007, according to market research company Hitwise.

At the same time, Yahoo’s share slipped to 17.7 percent, from 18.1 percent a month earlier and 21.7 percent a year ago. Microsoft’s share rose slightly in October to 5.4 percent from 5.36 percent in September, but the down from 7.4 percent in October of last year. Internet searches at Ask.com fell to 3.5 percent from 3.6 percent a month ago, and from 4.8 percent last year.

Hitwise bases its data on a sample of 10 million U.S. Internet users over four week rolling periods. The Microsoft figures include Live.com and MSN Search but does not include Club.Live.com.

The remaining 43 search engines Hitwise tracks accounted for 1.6 percent of U.S. searches in October.

Source: Macworld

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Scour is a new search engine that combines the results of the most famous search engines: Google, MSN and Yahoo. You can also rate the results as you do in Pandora. By this, Scour is getting better!

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The unemployment issue is getting bigger and serious! These are some of the Tech companies that fire 19,556 employees.

  • Total Layoffs: 36
  • Total Employees: 19,556
    • Company Date Location # % Source
    Haute Secure October 23, 2008 Seattle 3 50% TechCrunch
    XeroxCorp October 23, 2008 world-wide 3,000 5% WSJ
    Cake Financial October 23, 2008 30% internal blog
    Mercent October 22, 2008 Seattle 6 12% Seattle Times
    Dell October 22, 2008 Round Rock, Texas 8,900 Reuters
    imeem October 22, 2008 San Francisco, CA 20 25% TechCrunch
    Mahalo October 22, 2008 Santa Monica, CA 6 10% TechCrunch
    TicketMaster October 22, 2008 New York, NY 300 5% Billboard.biz
    Veoh October 21, 2008 St. Petersburg, Russia 15 Silicon Alley Insider
    Yahoo October 21, 2008 Sunnyvale, CA 1,500 10% TechCrunch
    Eons October 20, 2008 Boston, MA 8 24% Boston Globe
    Wikia October 20, 2008 San Mateo, California 3 10% TechCrunch
    Meraki October 20, 2008 San Francisco, CA 10 20% TechCrunch
    Break.com October 20, 2008 Los Angeles 11 12% CNet
    Pandora October 17, 2008 Oakland, CA 20 TechCrunch
    Zillow October 17, 2008 Seattle, WA 35 TechCrunch
    SearchMe October 17, 2008 Mountain View, CA 11 20% VentureBeat
    Heavy October 17, 2008 New York, NY 12 Silicon Alley Insider
    Jaxtr October 17, 2008 Menlo Park, CA 13 TechCrunch
    Appcelerator October 17, 2008 Atlanta, GA 6 CNET
    Sirius XM October 17, 2008 Washington, DC 50 CNET
    Adbrite October 16, 2008 San Francisco, CA 40 TechCrunch
    hi5 October 16, 2008 San Francisco, CA 15 13% TechCrunch
    Zivity October 16, 2008 San Francisco, CA 7 TechCrunch
    Tesla Motors October 15, 2008 San Carlos, CA Tesla Motors
    Jive Software October 14, 2008 Portland, OR 40 TechCrunch
    Qimonda October 14, 2008 Worldwide 3,000 22% Financial Times
    Redfin October 13, 2008 Seattle, WA 20% Redfin
    Seesmic October 10, 2008 San Francisco, CA 7 TechCrunch
    Lulu October 9, 2008 Raleigh, NC 24 24% News & Observer
    eBay October 3, 2008 San Jose, CA 1,500 10% TechCrunch
    Gawker Media October 3, 2008 New York, NY 19 14% New York Times
    Sony Ericsson September 29, 2008 RTP, NC 450 Triangle Buisness Journal
    Autobytel September 26, 2008 IRVINE, Calif 75 33% Kelsey Blog
    NeoMagic Corporation September 24, 2008 Santa Clara 90 90% Bizjournals
    Nvidia September 18, 2008 Santa Clara, CA 360 6% NetworkWorld

    Source: Tech Crunch

    ]]>     http://ramolimendos.com/2008/10/layoffs-in-usa-october-2008/feed/ 0     Yahoo fires the 10% of its employees! http://ramolimendos.com/2008/10/yahoo-fires-the-10-of-employees/ http://ramolimendos.com/2008/10/yahoo-fires-the-10-of-employees/#comments Tue, 21 Oct 2008 22:38:01 +0000 ramolimendos http://www.redroom.gr/?p=322

    This morning, all the employees of Yahoo had a surprise email from their boss. Jerry Yang, CEO amd co-founder of Yahoo, sent an email to all the Yahoo’s employees worldwide.

    In the email Jerry Yang explained the reasons of his decision According to his words, Yahoo has to eliminate its costs by $400 millions!

    The big economic crisis affects also Silicon Valley, the place that US invests its 70%!

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