Archive for September, 2008

Are Your Financials Minty Fresh?

Are Your Financials Minty Fresh?

In July, we posted a blog about the rising traffic of the finance sections of the major portals (e.g. Yahoo! Finance, MSN MoneyCentral). In the blog, we hypothesized...

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QWERTY and Touchscreen: Better Together?

QWERTY and Touchscreen: Better Together?

The much anticipated T-Mobile G1, the HTC-made answer to the iPhone that will run Google’s Android operating system, was announced Tuesday. Like other smart...

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Why BankRate is so (G)RATE

Why BankRate is so (G)RATE

I admit it — I love using Bankrate.com to find the best savings account rates and to use their online calculators. I’m not the only one, between 3 and...

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Accountable Advertising on the Internet:  A unique perspective from Avinash Kaushik

Accountable Advertising on the Internet: A unique perspective from Avinash Kaushik

2008 has been a year of unprecedented change in the automotive industry: with declining new vehicle sales, tightened credit markets, and rapidly changing fuel prices,...

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Compete PRO now has Referral Analytics!

Compete PRO now has Referral Analytics!

Imagine a world where you could see where your competitors were getting traffic, and also know where 97% of your potential customers were going after visiting your...

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August Online Video Market Share: Politics and the Olympics Take the Top 5 by Storm

August Online Video Market Share: Politics and the Olympics Take the Top 5 by Storm

Growth at Google’s YouTube slowed dramatically in August, coming in essentially flat after months of consecutive gains of 3 — 5%. Despite the slowdown,...

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Will Consumers Flip for the Newest Member of the BlackBerry Family?

Will Consumers Flip for the Newest Member of the BlackBerry Family?

I love new cell phone releases — a new cell phone makes me as happy as a kid in a candy store! Partly because I study cell phones here at Compete, but I also...

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August Search Market Share Update: Rivals Cede to Google's Lead

August Search Market Share Update: Rivals Cede to Google's Lead

From the Beijing Olympic Games to war on Russia’s doorstep to the DNC Convention and Hurricane Gustav, 2008 livened up the dog days of August and, not to be...

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Is the iPod Touch Really an iPod?

Is the iPod Touch Really an iPod?

Analysts generally weren’t too impressed with Steve Jobs’ announcements about new iPod features and lower prices last week in San Francisco. But in...

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Lipstick Happens:  McCain's VP Pick Shakes up the Race, Online Too

Lipstick Happens: McCain's VP Pick Shakes up the Race, Online Too

Now this race is really getting interesting. The announcements in August of Senator Joe Biden and Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as their party’s Vice Presidential...

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