Mobile search spend increased 17 percent over the previous quarter and for the first time tablet CPCs surpassed desktop CPCs. Covario reports, “On a global platform basis, mobile advertising grew 17 percent in the third quarter when compared to Q2...
Investors seemed pleased despite Facebook’s $59 million loss, compared to a $227 million profit for the same quarter in 2011, before they became a public company. Advertising revenue represented 86 percent of total revenue and a 36 percent increase...
As we reported last quarter, this was to be the first reporting period with Motorola completely factored in. Google revenues topped $10 billion for the fourth quarter in a row, up substantially from the $12.2 billion reported in Q22012.
According to Facebook, revenue from advertising was $992 million, representing 84 percent of total revenue and a 28 percent increase from the same quarter last year. Payments and other fees revenue for the second quarter was $192 million.
Google revenues from outside of the United States totaled $5.96 billion, representing 54% of Google revenues in the second quarter of 2012, compared to 54% in the firstquarter of 2012 and 54% in the second quarter of 2011.
But will that be the story when 200-300 new TLDs suddenly become available Domain name registrations continue to grow quarter over quarter, with an increase of 5.2 million domain names from Q1 to Q2 2011 up to a heady baseline of 215 million...