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After the closing bell on Thursday, LinkedIn (NYSE: LNKD) reported its fourth quarter results. The company announced an EPS of $0.39, beating the consensus estimate of $0.38. Revenue of $447.2 million beat the consensus estimate $438.28 million. Net income for the quarter fell from $11.5...

Reports vary depending on who you ask but by most accounts, Black Friday was strong. Shoppers spent about $1.2 billion on Black Friday alone representing a 15 percent year over year increase from 2012, according to comScore but did Cyber Monday retailers see the same kind of interest?...

Black Friday may be deeply ingrained in the American shopping psyche, but Black Friday sales this year were relatively weak according to The National Retail Federation. NRF said compared with last year, consumers spent about four percent less over the holiday weekend this year – despite the...

There was a lot of speculation on whether this year’s Black Friday would be a shopping bonanza or an epic bust. It appears that the former is true if comScore's (NASDAQ: SCOR) data is correct. The data break down like this. American shoppers spent about $1.2 billion on Black Friday ($1.198 to...

Remember when Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) was the butt of every map joke when it released its map app along with iOS 6? The feedback was so negative that CEO Tim Cook apologized and told people to download Google's (NASDAQ: GOOG) version until the problem was corrected. Since then, people have said...

The latest comScore (NASDAQ: SCOR) data were released and it’s a win for Apple. The report covers the three-month period ending August 2013. Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) is, again, the top smartphone manufacturer with 40.7 percent of OEM market share. That represents a 1.5 percent increase from the...

For the first time since May 2011, Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) had more visitors to its sites than Google (NASDAQ: GOOG), according to comScore based on data from its Media Metrix service for July 2013. Yahoo hosted 196.6 million unique visitors, up 20 percent compared to July 2012. Google saw 192.3...

After a disastrous earnings announcement that left the stock down nearly 32 percent since June 26, Blackberry (NASDAQ: BBRY) executives have some explaining to do. They’ll get that chance Tuesday as the company hosts its annual shareholder meeting 10:00 a.m. EST. Let’s hope CEO Thorsten Heins...

Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) is still #1. That’s not just Apple fans talking. Research firm, comScore (NASDAQ: SCOR) released its latest data based on surveys of more than 30, 000 mobile subscribers in the U.S. and the surveys said: Of the 138.5 million smartphones out there, 39.2 percent (54.3 million...

In a move described by Bloomberg as “creepy,” Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) Monday began telling users of their popular email service that they must agree to have their email messages (incoming and outgoing), as well as instant and SMS messaging scanned and analyzed to help drive targeted ads. Oh...

Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) has had its fair share of negative headlines since the stock has taken an epic drop but the latest comScore numbers paint a more positive picture. On Thursday, comScore (NASDAQ: SCOR) released new usage data for December 2012 through February of 2013. According to the...

Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) has spent a great deal of time promoting the fact that it has more users than any other social network. Up until now, no one knew how many of those users were actually real. The good news is that Facebook's own estimates, which come from the company's 10-Q, are relatively...

Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) gained the most U.S. smartphone market share in the second quarter, making strides against category leader Google according to a report from comScore on Wednesday. There are now 110 million U.S. residents using smartphones, up 4 percent from last year based on the latest...