To say that News Corp has had some problems over the past few years would be a grievous understatement, but that's about the best way in which it can be stated. In...

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Microsoft has reported its earnings for its first fiscal quarter. Revenue totaled some $17.37 billion, a 7% increase year over year. Operating income totaled $7.2 billion, with net income clocking...

Read More: Microsoft reports first-quarter revenue of $17.37 billion, up 7%

People from all over the world have tapped the "check-in" button on the foursquare app. The foursquare community team put together a video based on a call for check-in clips...

Read More: Foursquare celebrates its over 1 billion check-ins with a #4sqVid [video]

200 Amazon fulfillment centers are supported by Amazon's own services. Its engineers are focused on supporting big issues and problems, and the Amazon S3 services expansion over the past five...

Read More: Amazon announces 566 billion objects stored on S3 Service

Only eighteen YouTube channels have accomplished the feat of surpassing 1 billion YouTube views, among them Machinima, FAIL Blog, Expert Village, Ray William Johnson, and Barely Political.  Mondo Media, the animation distributor behind Happy Tree Friends, Dick Figures and other "deadly funny" series, is about to become number 19.


Read More: YouTube’s Billion Views Club About To Welcome A New Member

The social networking service known as foursquare, which launched in 2009, announced this week that it hit a whole new place value with its check-ins – billions.


Read More: Foursquare Makes it to a Billion Check-ins

Just last week, foursquare passed 1billion check-ins on its service after opening up the location-based social networking platform to over 1.5 billion more people by integrating five new languages. 1...

Read More: Foursquare Hits 1 Billion Check-Ins [Video]

Just last week, foursquare passed 1billion check-ins on its service after opening up the location-based social networking platform to over 1.5 billion more people by integrating five new languages. 1 billion check-ins represents a huge metric for the company launched in 2009.To celebrate, foursquare put together a birds-eye view video of the world as it populates with foursquare check-ins, along with an updated version of its mobile app that now displays its new Lists feature. As for the video, [...]

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The Android Market continues to explode. Recent statistics published by research firm Ovum predict that app downloads in Android's marketplace could reach 8.1 billion this year, compared to 6 billion for iOS, with total growth in app downloads expected to be as much as 144 percent this year. Today, mobile research firm Research2Guidance is releasing a report that gives a detailed look into the Android marketplace's current escalating growth, what's trending, and what categories of apps are makin [...]

Read More: Report: Android Market Nearing 6 Billion Downloads; Weather Apps Are Makin’ It Rain

As TechCrunch writer MC Siegler logged into his Tumblr account this morning where he operates his personal blog from, he noticed a little something at the top of his dashboard. It read "We've just hit our 10 billionth post! Thank you so much for being a part of this awesome journey". The number 10 billion ...

Read More: Tumblr Reaches 10 Billion Post Mark

Facebook might seem like a social media behemoth, but according to StatCounter StumbleUpon made up 47.11 percent of all social traffic in the U.S. as of July 2011.


Read More: StumbleUpon Logs 1 Billion Stumbles a Month

Google has decided to buy phone hardware maker Motorola Mobility Holdings for $12.5 billion in cash to reinforce its intellectual property and placing itself directly into the handset business of its Android mobile software.Google is set to pay $40 per share, a 63 percent premium to Motorola Mobility's Friday closing price on the New York Stock Exchange. The deal will close at the end of this year or early 2012.One can easily assume that the omnipresent internet company wants to provide a total [...]

Read More: Google Will Own Motorola Mobility for $12.5 Billion

Back in November of 2008, YouTube’s Promoted Videos concept was born.  Creators could pay to have their videos highlighted at the top of YouTube search results pages and in suggested videos for maximized visibility and viewership.  This week YouTube Promoted Videos have hit a huge milestone—they have now reached one billion views globally.


Read More: YouTube Promoted Videos Hit 1 Billion Views

Social summary service Summify has passed the two billion aggregated stories milestone, marking the occasion with the launch of slick new email summaries, web summaries and social features.Summify works by automatically identifying the most important news stories for you across all of your networks and tells why they are important, so you can read what really matters. With this in mind, the Summify team has redesigned its email notifications to include clearly indicate the headline, highlight th [...]

Read More: Summify passes 2 billion aggregated stories, launches new design and social features

Popular photo-sharing website Flickr announced on Thursday that it had surpassed the 6 billion photos, reaching the milestone in just under seven and a half years.Flickr says that over the last five years, uploads have increased 20% year-over-year, a respectable growth rate. The company is quick to point out that its tagging, camera data, groups, comments and favourites make the photo sharing website unique, perhaps in light of its small footprint compared to other photo sharing websites.In comp [...]

Read More: Flickr hits 6 billion total photos, but Facebook does that every 2 months

Square is the company that provides a free credit card reader for a Android, iPhone or iPad. Its service and free app lets you accept credit card payments without a merchant account monthly fees. So, how's this working out? TechCrunch reports that:Square Now Processing $4 Million In Mobile Payments Per DayA little arithmetic will tell you that this is over $1 billion a year. And, Square's transaction rate is on the upswing. They reported $3 million per day in payments just a few months ago in Ma [...]

Read More: Square Mobile Credit Card Transactions on Track for $1 Billion Per Year

Today at a special event at its headquarters in Palo Alto, California, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has taken the stage to unveil some key new announcements (you can find our live notes and a live stream right here). One of the first things Zuckerberg announced: Facebook has observed the the rate that its users are sharing is increasing at an exponential rate.

He explains that if you look at any Facebook user, on average, the amount they share today is twice what they shared a year ago — and in [...]

Read More: Zuckerberg: Online Sharing Is Growing At An Exponential Rate (And Users Are Sharing 4 Billion ...

Years ago McDonalds used the slogan “Over N billions served” where N changed as the number of customers served grew ever larger. Apple could use a similar slogan for their apps. They announced this week that more than 15 billion apps have been downloaded from their App Store.Apple’s App Store Downloads Top 15 BillionHere are some other numbers revealed in the press release:- More than 425,000 apps of all kinds
- More than 100,000 apps specifically for the iPad
- 20 categori [...]

Read More: Apple: 15+ Billion Apps Downloaded, $2.5 Billion Paid to Developers