While social networking gained the most penetration in U.S. mobile market use in April, searches also recorded hefty increases, both via apps and browsers, according to freshly released comScore data . Click to read the rest of this post.

With the much publicized launch of Google TV , all eyes are now on internet TV growth and how it will impact both areas, i.e. the web and the television business. Cisco issued its Visual Networking Index forecast through 2014 and gives a thorough idea of the role of video in the internet landscape to come. Read on. Click to read the rest of this post.

add a background image to the Google.com search page . Users can upload pictures from their own computer or Picasa web album or public galleries and featured photos from the Picasa community. Click to read the rest of this post.

Link Building has changed in recent years. Buying links is out. Content marketing is in. It's about reaching out and building solid relationships across the web. Wordtracker has launched Link Builder , a new tool to help SEOs and website owners find quality link prospects, organize them into campaigns and keep track of the people they contact. Click to read the rest of this post.

Who doesn't need or want good SEO? The good news is that now Wordtracker goes beyond keyword identification to provide link building management services thanks to its new partnership with competitive link intelligence firm Majestic SEO. Click to read the rest of this post.

In nine days exactly, the World Cup kicks off in South Africa and already, the event is starting to shape the UK search landscape. Click to read the rest of this post.

They knew it would be big. Advertisers have invested massive sums to get hot spots during ABC's finale of Lost on May 23rd and they were right to do so, according to various reports and studies following the airing of the six-year long series' closing episode. According to research firm Nielsen, the finale gathered an average 13.5 million viewers. Click to read the rest of this post.

The 2006 FIFA World Cup final between Italy and France was watched by a global cumulative audience of 715.1 million viewers. So, it's now wonder that the 2010 FIFA World Cup is already generating some amazing commercials and YouTube video ads. Click to read the rest of this post.

comScore Video Metrix today announced that 178 million American Internet users watched online video during April 2010. In other words, 83.5 percent of the total U.S. Internet audience viewed online video that month. Click to read the rest of this post.

Ripples In The Golden Pond. Apple's recent honeymoon seems to be short-lived with reports of regulatory scrutiny coming from the Department of Justice and from the Federal Trade Commission on various grounds. The issues at hand: Adobe, music and videos as well as mobile ads. Click to read the rest of this post.

FourSquare and Singapore's Refinery Media have entered a partnership deal under which the geo location service will be meshed into Refinery's Supermodelme Season 2 show. Click to read the rest of this post.

It looks like Facebook's efforts to assuage users fears on private data protection did not do too well with U.S. authorities as the company now faces scrutiny by the U.S. House Judiciary Committee. Click to read the rest of this post.

What Google calls "the buzzing blogger community" has been blogging about SES Toronto 2010 , which will be held June 9-11 at the Hyatt Regency Toronto. So, what's the buzz? Click to read the rest of this post.

Google announced it has closed its acquisition of AdMob , in a move that will likely open wide the doors of mobile online advertising of emerging markets. Click to read the rest of this post.

Bits and bobs to keep up with search agency news...: Rosetta, Kenshoo and WebVisible Click to read the rest of this post.

Starting today, YouTube has integrated the ability to use Google Moderator into your YouTube channel. Moderator is a social platform that allows you to solicit ideas or questions on any topic, and have the community vote the best ones up to the top in real-time. YouTube previously used Google Moderator as part of its interviews with American President Barack Obama and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper. Click to read the rest of this post.

This is huge. Literally. At the close of the stock market on Wednesday, Apple became the first company of the Nasdaq, meaning its value finally surpassed that of rival Microsoft. Click to read the rest of this post.

Apple may have just overtaken Microsoft as the biggest U.S. technology company but Google is already positioning itself as the iPad maker's next competitor. Case in point, Google has issued a report on its impact on the U.S. economy in 2009, showing that the company has generated $54 billion worth of business activity across the country. Click to read the rest of this post.

CEO Mark Zuckerberg told the world on Monday that Facebook's " drastically simplified " privacy settings would roll out in the weeks to come and here they are. Zuckerberg presented them at a press conference, just two days after his op-ed in the Washington Post and some of the changes are already in place. Click to read the rest of this post.

Magnetic announced integration of their search data marketplace with leading ad networks on monday. This partnership will enable display ad buyers on the Collective, interCLICK and Undertone ad networks to retarget users of second tier search engines who have performed a search in the last 30 days. Click to read the rest of this post.