Last week 7.07 % of all US Internet visits were to Facebook, while Google could only attract 7.03 % of visitors. This is the first time that Facebook has surpassed Google. A year ago, only 2% of Internet visits were to Facebook, making this a truly phenomenal growth. But while Facebook may have surpassed Google by a sliver, in terms of revenue there is no contest: Revenues at the social media company are estimated to be in the range of $1bn to $1.5bn this year, while Google took in $23.7bn last year.

Soleo Communications, a leading provider of carrier‐grade solutions for information service providers, announced the completion of its acquisition of Local Matters Voice & Wireless Division, formerly part of IBM’s Telecommunications business unit. Soleo will acquire most of the assets of the Voice and Wireless Division and has also signed a reseller agreement with the division’s parent company Local Matters Inc. for other products and services.

Yell.com has developed an Augmented Reality version of its number one business App, available free on the App Store.
The free Augmented Reality iPhone Beta App has been designed by Yell Labs.

The App allows users to ‘see’ local shops, offices, restaurants and other useful services through the iPhone’s camera viewer - even if they’re round the corner or in the next street.


It’s a grim time for newspapers in America – and European papers are probably not much better off. Pew Internet found in a recent survey of news consumption that 92% of Americans are using multiple platforms to get their news each day. The most popular platforms for news are local and cable TV news, followed by the Internet, and ahead of newspapers and radio. News has become mobile and participatory: 33% of cell phone users access news on their mobile; 28% of Net users have a customized home page; and 37% of online news consumers have also created content, commented or passed on news through social networks. The choice is there but it may be too much: 70% feel overwhelmed by it all.(Source: Pew Internet & American Life Project)

There is a new social networking service with a silly name about: Bubbly, the Twitter for people who can’t read. Bubbly has been developed by the mobile and social app firm Bubble Motion based in Silicon Valley and Singapore. Is growing like wildfire in India, where the service will be launched first, bypassing the USA and Europe. Bubbly hasn't launched officially, but the service saw an estimated 500,000 users in about four weeks after some of Bollywood's biggest stars started using it. Bubbly is like a person-to-person voice message, but it goes out to anyone willing to listen.

In an interview with the business TV channel CNBC, the CEO of the global advertising group WPP, Sir Martin Sorrell likened the last year to a football “"a game of two halves" for his group. He also forecasted a return to growth in the second quarter this year. Sorrell said: "In the first half of the year I think we were staring into the abyss. In the second half we certainly saw things becoming less worse." Last year WPP had stopped hiring new people in order to cut costs, but now, Sorrell said the company was hiring again.