Microsoft Takes a Beating, Gmail Takes a Nap
Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) More about Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer told a gathering of analysts that the company won’t be making any further layoffs, and once word got out, Wall Street proceeded to pummel the company mercilessly, sending its stock to an 11-year low.
Analyst Rob Enderle told us the no-more-layoffs decision made sense because there just [...]
Firefox 3.0 Becomes Most Popular Web Browser in Europe for First Time
Dublin and London; Tuesday, 31st March, 2009: Mozilla Firefox 3.0 became the most popular web browser in Europe last week, overtaking Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.0 for the first time on a weekly basis according to web analytics firm StatCounter (http://gs.statcounter.com). Firefox 3.0 took 35.05% of the European web browser market followed by 34.54% for IE [...]
Bing Overtakes Yahoo!
New York (US) and Dublin (Ireland); Friday, 5th June, 2009:
Microsoft’s Bing overtook Yahoo! as the number two search engine in the United States and worldwide Thursday (4th June) according to data from StatCounter Global Stats. StatCounter says that Bing grabbed market share from Google.
“It remains to be seen if Bing falls away after the initial [...]