Online & Radio Use Rises

Americans are increasingly turning to online and radio sources for news and information, and are spending less time with daily newspapers and TV, according to a media use and credibility survey commissioned by ARAnet and conducted by Opinion Research Corporation....

Microsoft Bing Pings Google

Bing lunges ahead to grab 11% of the search market in August. Microsoft Corp.’s Bing had a really strong August as the company takes another step in its effort to boost its place in the search engine business. The new search engine, which was first brought out...

Online Shopping Cart Deserters Come Back

A study by security firm McAfee has found that 65% of online shoppers wait a day or more to fully convert on a purchase. The study, Digital Window Shopping: The Long Journey to Buy, reviewed 163 million online transactions. Released September 17, it observed that this...

Bing Creeps Up Steadily

Bing increased Microsoft’s share of the US search market by 1% last month and continues to slowly but steadily chip away at Yahoo and Google, according to an analysis conducted by StatCounter. Data for the month of June reveal that Microsoft (whose search share...

Employers Use SocNets to Probe Candidates

Nearly half (45%) of US employers use social networking sites to dig up information about job candidates, a significant jump from 22% last year, according to a survey commissioned by CareerBuilder, which also found that another 11% of employers have plans in the works...