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Internet Advertising Reaches Record $26 Billion In 2010
Internet advertising revenues reached $26 billion in 2010, up 15 percent from 2009, according to a new report from the IAB and PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC).
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Date: 2011-04-15

Worldwide IT Spending To Total $3.6 Trillion In 2011
Global IT spending is on track to total $3.6 trillion in 2011, a 5.6 percent increase from $3.4 trillion in 2010, according to the latest forecast from Gartner.
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Date: 2011-04-01

Angry Birds Lands Rovio $42 Million In Funding
Rovio the company behind the popular Angry Birds game, said today it has raised $42 million in Series A investment to help it expand.
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Date: 2011-03-11

Global IT Spending Reached $1.5 Trillion In 2010
Global spending on information technology climbed to its fastest rate of growth since 2007 last year, driven by pent-up demand for hardware upgrades and infrastructure investment after the financial crisis and global recession of 2009, according to a new report from IDC.
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Date: 2011-02-18

TD Ameritrade Settles With SEC For $10 Million
Online brokerage firm TD Ameritrade will reimburse $10 million to customers to settle Securities and Exchange Commission charges it misled them when selling shares of the Reserve Yield Plus Fund, a mutual fund that "broke the buck" in September 2008.
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Date: 2011-02-04

Google Q4 Revenue Tops $8 Billion, Schmidt To Step Down As CEO
Google's fourth quarter earnings surpassed analysts expectations giving the company its best profitability since 2006.
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Date: 2011-01-21

Facebook Revenue Stronger Than Expected
Facebook is bringing in revenue at a higher rate than expected, and is set to attract so many investors this year that it will likely have to release financial information similar to a publicly traded company by April 2012, according to a document from Goldman Sachs.
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Date: 2011-01-07

Adobe Reaches Record $1 Billion In Revenue
Adobe Systems reported its financial results for the fourth quarter beating analysts expectations and raising its outlook.
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Date: 2010-12-23

Amazon.com Invests $175 Million In LivingSocial
Local social shopping website LivingSocial has secured a $175 million investment from Amazon.com.
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Date: 2010-12-10

Holiday Gift Card Spending To Reach $24 Billion
Americans plan to spend an average of $145.61 on gift cards this holiday season, up from $139.91 last year, according to a new survey from the National Retail Federation (NRF), conducted by BIGresearch.
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Date: 2010-11-19

Robert W. Baird Sets $410 Price Target On Apple
Whatever Apple's stock does (or doesn't do) today, Apple investors have reason to be optimistic about the future. Financial services firm Robert W. Baird has initiated coverage of Apple with an "outperform" rating and a $410 price target.
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Date: 2010-11-05

Baidu Releases Impressive Q3 Earnings Report
The third quarter of this year was kind to Chinese search giant Baidu, judging from the company's own stats. Baidu released an earnings report late yesterday, and it beat most Wall Street analysts' estimates by a fair amount.
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Date: 2010-10-22

HP Gives $5 Million Gift To Newseum
Newseum said today it has received a $5 million gift from HP to design and build a new gallery focused on the changing media landscape in an effort to help people better understand the impact technology has on news.
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Date: 2010-10-01

Halo Reach Brings In $200 Million On First Day
Microsoft has announced its new video game Halo: Reach has generated up to $200 million in global sales on its first day of availability.
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Date: 2010-09-17

comScore Acquired Dutch Web Software
This past year has certainly been the year of acquisitions. First went Omniture, next Coremetrics, then Unica and now NedStat. comScore has acquired Dutch web software: NedStat, to unify their digital management platform.
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Date: 2010-09-03

Intel Buys McAfee For $7.6 Billion
Intel has entered into an agreement to acquire security firm McAfee, through the purchase of all of the companys stock at $48 per share in cash, for $7.68 billion.
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Date: 2010-08-20

Ecommerce Regains Double Digit Growth
July retail sales in the U.S. remained generally flat in most categories compared to July 2009, according to a new report by MasterCard Advisors' Spending Pulse.
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Date: 2010-08-06

Google Misses Earnings Estimates For First Time In Two Years
Google reported solid second quarter earnings with revenue up 24 percent but missed analyst's estimates for the first time in two years.
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Date: 2010-07-16

GetJar Receives $11 Million In Funding From Accel Partners
GetJar, the second largest app store, has closed $11 million in Series B funding from Accel Partners.
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Date: 2010-06-25

Global Online Advertising To Reach $61 Billion
Global online advertising is on track to increase by 12.4 percent in 2010, to $61 billion, according to a new forecast by MagnaGlobal.
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Date: 2010-06-11

Global PC Spending To Reach $245 Billion
Global PC shipments are on track to total 376. 6 million units in 2010, a 22 percent increase from 308.3 million units shipped in 2009, according to a preliminary forecast by Gartner.
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Date: 2010-05-28

Online Ad Revenue Reaches Record $5.9 Billion In Q1
Internet advertising revenue in the U.S. reached $5.9 billion in the first quarter of 2010, representing a 7.5 percent increase over the same period in 2009.
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Date: 2010-05-14

Time Warner Cable Revenue Up 5.4% In Q1
Time Warner Cable posted a first-quarter 30 percent increase in profit driven by the strong growth of its Internet, phone and digital cable customers.
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Date: 2010-04-30

Google Reports Solid Q1 Earnings
Google has released its financial results for the first quarter of 2010 and the company reported revenues of $6.77 billion, an increase of 23 percent compared to the first quarter of 2009.
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Date: 2010-04-16

UK Online Ad Spending Reaches $5.3 Billion
The UK Internet advertising sector increased revenues by 4.2 percent to $5.3 billion in 2009, up from $5 billion in 2008, according to the Interactive Advertising Bureau and PricewaterhouseCoopers.
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Date: 2010-04-02


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