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 ... Re ... Read more

About half of its 250 million monthly users worldwide log-in everyday. About a quarter, or 65 million, used the site from mobile devices in August, according to Henri Moissinac, director of Facebook Mobile. That's more than three times what it was in December, when 20 million users were using Facebo ... Read more

The valuations of large social networks like MySpace (NWS), Facebook, and Twitters is that a visitor to a social network as the same value as a visitor to Yahoo! (YHOO), AOL, or Ask.com (IACI). Facebook is worth $10 billion because its number of members is close to the number of people who come to Y ... Read more

I am not a fan of Reality TV Shows. When I watch them I get the feeling someone wants me to outsource my life to them. I get the feeling that we can feel like we are getting the emotions or satisfactions of surviving a desert island or dropping 40 pounds without having to endure the mosquitoes or th ... Read more

Rupert Murdoch's News Corp (NWS) has hit a rough patch as the recession erodes revenue at a number of his properties including Dow Jones and his other newspapers. The company's Fox movie and TV units could also be hurt. Murdoch has hoped that his online initiatives would take off and that new media ... Read more

There was a fashion, once, for industrial conglomerates.  Companies would buy each other up and the market would reward the result with a higher PE than the components.  This got going in the 1960s and worked into the '70s, but went into reverse with the fashion for down-sizing, right-si ... Read more