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comScore: Amazon Kindle Fire Now Has Over Half Of Android Tablet Market
Today comScore has announced the next generation of their Device Essentials service. Device Essentials is based on comScore’s Unified Digital Measurement (UDM) data, which uses census-level information from tagged web page content. Device Essentials includes reporting of brand and operating system for digital devices and Internet page views from computers, smartphones, and tablets. Using this new method of analysis, comScore has reported that the Amazon Kindle Fire has doubled its share of the Android tablet market in two months, giving them the lead in the Android tablet market. Check out the graph below to see a breakdown of the Android tablet numbers.
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YouTube Surpasses 21 Billion Video Views In One Month
Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) subsidiary YouTube.com has hit 20 billion views in October. This is 50% of all the videos that was watched in the U.S. according to comScore. U.S. Internet users watched 42.6 billion videos in October and YouTube accounted for 20.9 billion of those views. comScore also revealed that YouTube has the highest engagement with users by averaging over 7 hours of video each during the month. [comScore]
comScore: Cyber Monday Spending Hits $1.25 Billion and Is Heaviest Online Spending Day In History
comScore (NASDAQ:SCOR) has released some numbers about the holiday season spending for U.S. retail e-commerce spending. During teh holiday season about $15 billion was spent online, which makes it a 15% increase versus the year before. Cyber Monday accounted for $1.25 billion in online spending, which is 22% higher than last year. This makes it the heaviest online spending day in history and the second day on record to pass the billion dollar threshold. Nice job, consumers!
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Nielsen Suing comScore For Patent Infringement
The Nielsen Company is accusing comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ:SCOR) of infringing on five patents that relates to measuring and displaying online content. The lawsuit was filed in a Virginia federal court. In the lawsuit filing, Nielsen lists 30 different comScore products that violates their patent rights.
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comScore: Microsoft Windows Phone 7 Market Share Slips To 8%
According to comScore, Microsoft’s share of the U.S. smartphone market is about 8%. It slid down from 9.7% at the end of October. Windows Phone 7 was released on October 21 in Europe and Asia and November 8 in North America. Google Android’s market share increase to 31.2% from 23.5%. Apple remains on top at 24.7% at the end of January. It is highly likely that the Nokia-Microsoft deal could help Windows Phone 7 increase in market share. [Seattle Pi]
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Canadians Spend More Time Online Than Any Other Country [STATS]
O Canada! Our home and native land is the Internet! What I mean is that Canadians rank the most enthusiastic users of the Internet. According to comScore, Canada also had the highest penetration of Internet access. About 68% of Canadians are online. Compare this to 62% of France, 60% in Germany, 57% in Japan, 59% in the U.S. Canada is also the only country where an average user logged over 2,500 minutes online per month.
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Cyber Monday 2010 Was The Heaviest Online Shopping Day In History
November 29, 2010 (known as Cyber Monday) was the heaviest online shopping day in history. According to comScore (NASDAQ:SCOR), over $1 billion was spent online on that day. This is a 16% increase from the year ago. During the holiday season-to-date, about $13.55 billion has been spent online. This is a 13% increase during the same time last year.
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Facebook Was The 2nd Biggest Video Website After Passing Yahoo! In August [comScore]
comScore has released some new figures about the amount of video that has been watched over the past month. According to comScore, 178 million Internet users watched video content in August at an average of 14.3 hours per viewer. About 5.2 billion viewing sessions took place in the month of August and 85.1% of users in the U.S. viewed online video as well.
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comScore: Users Spent More Time On Facebook and Yahoo! In August
According to comScore, Americans spent more time on Facebook and Yahoo! for the first time in August. Users spent 41.1 billion minutes on Facebook and 39.8 billion minutes on Google. Users spent 37.7 billion minutes on Yahoo!, but Yahoo! edged Google in monthly traffic by a little bit.
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Facebook Surpasses 140 Million U.S. Unique Visitors In June
According to comScore, Facebook has hit 141 million unique U.S. visitors in June of this year, breaking all previous traffic records. Facebook has almost doubled in traffic every year. In the same month last year, Facebook had about 77 million unique U.S. visitors. Facebook is quickly catching up to Google in traffic according to comScore. Google had 179 million monthly unique visitors across their websites in May 2010. [Mashable]
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