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In the second quarter of this year, China’s online game revenues grew 39.5 percent year-on-year to $906 million, with online operator Tencent Holdings leading the charge ahead of competitors Shanda and World of Warcraft operator NetEase. via gamasutra.com Posted via web from Paul’s posterous

In the UK, Internet ad spending just surpassed TV adverting, according to a report by the Internet Advertising Bureau and PricewaterhouseCoopers, as the Web now accounts for 23.5% of all ad money, while TV ad spend accounts for 21.9% of marketing budgets. via mediapost.com This same article states that digital ad spending in the U.S.Continue reading “MediaPost Publications U.S. Online Spend Might Not Equal UK’s, But It’s Getting There 10/01/2009”

Derivative securities bills Below are the bills that are related to the “Derivative securities” subject term. Click the Add Tracker button to the right to subscribe to this subject term. There is no legislation in this session of Congress for this subject term. This subject term is no longer used. In 2009, the Congressional ResearchContinue reading “GovTrack: Bills by Subject: Derivative Securities”

Have you bought  a Kindle? Do you plan on buying a Kindle? If you answered yes to either question, you’re part of a not-that-small group: JP Morgan estimates that some 10 million Americans either own one of Amazon’s e-book readers or plan to get one soon. That projection comes from a survey of Web usersContinue reading “Prediction: Amazon to Sell 10 Million Kindle E-Book Readers”

More than one in five of all online ads are served on social networks. MySpace still leads the pack with 9.2% of all online ads, and Facebook is a close second with 8.2%. The 3.7% of online ads served on social networks is split among such sites as Tagged.com, MocoSpace.com, Hi5.com, Bebo, Classmates.com and otherContinue reading “20% of Online Advertising is on Social Networks”

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Princeton economist and former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich agrees that Wall Street’s biggest problem right now is the collapse of trust: The problem is, government bailouts, subsidies, and insurance aren’t really helping Wall Street. The Street’s fundamental problem isn’t lack of capital. It’s lack of trust. And without trust, Wall Street might as wellContinue reading “Financial Crisis Stems From Lack of Trust, Disappearance of “True Value””

Indeed, Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes helped organize the social media parts of Barack Obama’s presidential campaign last year. For example, it was the first presidential campaign to launch Facebook Connect support — early in the campaign, in the fall of 2008. Obama’s campaign went on to trounce opponents in terms of Facebook fans, with hisContinue reading “Importance of Facebook in Political Campaigns”