While many of the top Internet companies faced a volatile ad market in the fourth quarter of last year, Facebook saw its share of the overall online advertising market increase to 2.7 percent during the period… Tweet This Post

Tom Hanks. Louis C.K. Lisa Kudrow. Kevin Spacey. David Fincher. Bill Maher. Jennifer Lopez. Judy Greer. Steven Van Zandt. Morgan Spurlock. Ed Begley, Jr. Heidi Klum. What do these Hollywood A-Listers (or near A-Listers) and other stars all have in common? They’re all involved in original online video projects which are helping upend the Hollywood [...]

In the world of search advertising, mobile phones and tablets continue to outpace performance of search ads on PCs, although they still represent only a fraction of impressions and investment, according to a new report… Tweet This Post

While Google moves and Apple rumors have attracted most internet TV hype, Yahoo has been busy moving units, racking up 8 million widget TVs in the market and over a million active users every month. The broadcast interactivity it demonstrated at least year’s show is already live on the 2011 lineup of Sony Bravias and [...]

All Scott Thompson has to do is show up as CEO of Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) for the next year or so and he stands to make around $25 million. If he actually meets a few performance goals, make that $27 million… Tweet This Post

The markets didn’t punish Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) today when it announced it would appoint a payments technology specialist, Scott Thompson, as its CEO to run a business largely built on content, search and advertising… Tweet This Post

Yahoo! Inc. ended months of speculation and named Scott Thompson, president of eBay Inc.’s PayPal unit, its new Chief Executive. Thompson, who officially starts on Monday, replaces Tim Morse, Yahoo’s chief financial officer, who had been interim chief executive since September… Tweet This Post

Yahoo’s freshly minted CEO Scott Thompson is a believer, and he did his darnedest during his first public call as Yahoo’s new leader to convince everyone else that the company is ready to return to “the forefront on innovation online and with the businesses that benefit from online… Tweet This Post

Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) this morning confirmed that it has appointed a new CEO, Scott Thompson, formerly the president of eBay’s payment division, PayPal. His appointment comes four months after Carol Bartz was fired from the job… Tweet This Post

Those perpetual rankers over at Nielsen unveiled their “Tops of 2011″ list this week, revealing the most popular brands and products across all manner of categories. There’s nothing particularly shocking over on the digital side of things — Google topped the list of Top US Web Brands, followed by Facebook… Tweet This Post

Last Friday, troubled Internet giant Yahoo filed a new trademark application with the USPTO. I can’t find any record of an existing Yahoo product or service by the name, so I figured I should just throw it out here for all of you to speculate what the company has up its sleeves… Tweet This Post

Some research out from Xyologic today on app store download trends in 2011 indicates that while games have remained a popular category across both Apple’s App Store for free apps and the Android Market, they appear far more popular on with iPhone users than they are with Android users when looking at the top downloads [...]