Chart: U.S. Virtual Goods Revenue Ready To Explode | SAI The virtual goods market in the U.S. is ready to take off. Right now, the U.S. only has 28% of the total market. By 2013, the U.S. will make up 41% of the market with $2.5 billion in sales, according to research from Piper Jaffray ... Read more

Social Media’s Share of the Online Marketing Budget Click here to see larger, printable version of this chart Social media, which would have accounted for a very small increment of the “Other online marketing” slice just a few years ago, is now garnishing 11% of the ... Read the full ... Read more

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It’s still a well-kept secret, but last month FamilyLink was the fastest growing web site in the US according to Comscore . But you wouldn’t know it from the (low) number of requests we get for part-time employment or internships. If you are studying web development, marketing, mu ... Read ... Read more

via ir.comscore.com comScore Top 10 Gaining Properties by Percentage Change in Unique Visitors* (U.S.) ---------------------------------------------------------- December 2009 vs. November 2009 ------------------------------- Total U.S. - Home, Work and University Locations ------ ... R ... Read more

20 years ago when I started my first company, I wrote code. (Quickbasic and Turbo Pascal – nothing fancy.) In fact, my partner sold our products and I developed them, for about the first 4 years. As our company grew, we hired developers and I haven’t really written code since. (I did a ... Read more

Entrepreneurs have leveraged the power of platforms offered by companies like Facebook, Google and Apple to kick-start a phenomenon we call the “app economy.” In 2009, this revolution took significant strides in funding, acquisitions and job creation for an economic sector of educational and ... Read more

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A couple of weeks ago my brother-in-law, who lives in Washington, DC, told me he was reading the multi-volume world history by Will & Ariel Durrant called “The Story of Civilization.” I was impressed. I have always wanted to read this series but haven’t yet done it. So I orde ... Read more