Microsoft Reports Third-Quarter Results – Microsoft News Center"The Online Services Division reported revenue of $832 million, an 18% increase from the prior year period. Reports First Quarter 2013 Results – Yahoo Investor RelationsYahoo reported...
Online commerce continues to growth in the double digits every quarter, and with more money being spent online, online vendors are constantly being presented with the opportunity to increase their online sales.
CPC rates saw a general increase cross the board during the last quarter. Amazon Product Ads had the best conversion rates for Q4 2012, notably even beating its own numbers for the previous quarter. In CPC Strategy's 2012 Ecommerce Industry Report...
The stock has lost more than a quarter of its value in the following weeks. 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.
The average cost per click is now $0.35, down 18.2 percent from the quarter before. Despite investor disappointment, Google just raked in their largest quarterly revenue to date, reporting $14.10 billion for Q3 2012.
Payments and other fees revenue for the third quarter was $176 million, a 13 percent increase over the same quarter in the prior year and a 9 percent decline sequentially from the second quarter of 2012.
The reported Q3 2012 $14.10 billion in revenue is another new record and reflects a 45 percent increase over the same quarter last year. Google revenues from outside of the United States totaled $6.11 billion, representing 53% of total Google...
Revenue for About.com, which has declined to $25.4 million in the second quarter (a drop of 8.7 percent), is generated by advertising (display and click-through), so it follows that it would be negatively affected by a large drop in internet traffic.
In the second quarter of 2012, they averaged 78 million unique visitors per month. Based on that result, they estimated that brands “could boost traffic and revenue by as much as 30% if they close the gaps in SEO performance by ranking at the same...
The second quarter of 2012 looked a lot better than the first for small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) using Facebook as a direct selling tool. More businesses are jumping on board, with 26 percent more Facebook stores operating this quarter.
Payments and other fees revenue for the second quarter was $192 million. 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.
The Q2 2012 $12.21 billion in revenue is another new record and reflects a 35 percent increase over the same quarter last year, when Motorola is factored in. In their pre-earnings call press release, Google quoted CEO and co-founder Larry Page on...
Yahoo's 2012 Q1 search revenue was $470 million, up 3 percent compared to the same quarter for the previous year. It marks the second straight quarter where display sales were slightly down, as the Internet company posted 3 percent dip for 2011 Q4.
Amid an otherwise strong earnings report, Google for the second consecutive quarter announced CPC prices were down, by 12 percent year over year for the quarter. Overall, Google reported Q1 2012 revenue at $10.65 billion, a 24 percent growth...
The Q1 2012 $10.65 billion in revenue is a new record and reflects a 24 percent increase over the same quarter last year. Google revenues topped $10 billion for the second quarter in a row, coming in only slightly higher than their Q4 2011 $10.58...
Yahoo and Microsoft announced that "The European roll out is scheduled to begin with the UK, Ireland and France in the second quarter of 2012. The two companies have been splitting the cost of the transition, and Bing receives 12 percent of the...
Yahoo's second quarter report doesn't look pretty at first glance: GAAP revenue is down 23 percent. Microsoft then receives 12 percent of the generated ad revenue, which totaled to $36 million in the second quarter.
Online bookings grew from 33% of all bookings in 2007 to 40% in 2010, and another quarter of total bookings are influenced by online customer research. Again, in my own investigation I came across many landing pages that made suggestions for...
Design changes in cost-per-click advertisements served by Google had a negative effect on click through rates in the quarter, and we expect that to be the case through the second quarter as well," said Janet Robinson, president and CEO.
Google's second quarter earnings figures were good, with a 24 percent year-over-year increase, and yet still weren't good enough as they came below market expectations. Google, which has gained more search market and paid search shares, and...
