The bad U.S. economy didn’t stop consumers from emptying their wallets on Black Friday. comScore reports Black Friday online spending in 2011 increased 26 percent from $648 million last year, to $816 million. Black Friday also was the most profitable day of the year for online stores. comScore believes Cyber Monday spending will be even greater than Black Friday.

According to a comScore study, Google accounted for over 90% of the searches in Latin America. The region continues to be on the upswing in terms of searching per capita with over 18 billion searches, an increase of 21% over the year prior.The #2 name in searches in the region might surprise you. With Google more »

People on the street are always stopping us to ask, “where are people in Argentina surfing to on the net?” Well today, I can provide an honest answer: Microsoft, Google and Facebook. comScore has released their State of the Internet Argentina report that puts the three popular US sites at the top of their destination more »

comScore has an interesting report which compares three month average trends in the mobile world. In the three month average ending in May, comScore’s report finds RIM still atop the smartphone platform and Samsung the leading OEM manufacturer, but it is worth noting the growth Android experienced during this time. RIM went from 42.1% to more »

comScore released their report of mobile phone operating system shares for February of 2010. The winners (over November of 2009) are Android and RIM. Palm and Microsoft Windows continue to bleed users while the iPhone OS held almost steady. Is it any wonder that Android will continue to gain market share as they launch phones more »

It is no secret that Netflix is pushing their Watch Instantly movie streaming, and according to the December comScore numbers that push seems to be working. It seems that Netflix has broken into the top 20, albeit just barely at position 19 falling in between Break Media at 20 and Justin.tv at 18. comScore Video more »

MySpace is so five minutes ago. Well, at least that’s the consensus according to a new statistics report from ComScore. The report shows that Facebook receives nearly double the amount of unique worldwide visitors to its site than their competitor MySpace.

The data shows that approximately 222 million people logged on Facebook in December while only 125 million people visited MySpace. Facebook has steadily increased their number of visitors an average of 10 percent each month. It also has about 100 million more registered users than MySpace. However, MySpace still leads in the United States according to page view data and time spent on the website. These statistics indicate though that this year, Facebook may surpass MySpace in the United States as well.

Now that Black Friday and Cyber Monday are behind us, it’s time we enjoy those gadgets that we bought, whether it be a brand new HDTV, gaming system, MP3 player, or computer. Of course for us techie people, we like to see how this year compares with previous years in terms of money spent. With the economy in a slump, experts predicted this shopping season to be down, but Cyber Monday managed to persuade many consumers to open their wallets, punch in their credit card number, and eagerly await their arrival of their new gadget(s).

Statistically speaking, last year on Cyber Monday had bought in $733 million in revenue, and this year bought in a 15% increase – an astonishing $846 million spent, stated ComScore in a report. This came as a relief to many retail stores because sales had dropped by 2% or $12 billion from November 1 to Cyber Monday of this year as compared to last year.

With the deal closed on the Dictionary.com purchase, Ask.com has now become, at least according to comScore, the ninth-largest web property. The all-cash deal originally began back in mid-May and had Ask.com purchasing Lexico Publishing Group LLC. The web properties that were included were Dictionary.com, Thesaurus.com and Reference.com. Ask.com is reporting that this will give more »

We all knew that is was just a matter of time before Facebook would finally catch up with MySpace, well at least in the total number of worldwide unique visitors. The latest numbers from comScore show that both MySpace and Facebook registered around 115 million unique visitors coming from all over the world this past April. So, with that we can officially declare that Facebook is no longer the second largest social network. Likewise MySpace is no longer the largest social network. So whoever is the largest social network today would depend on which of the two you like better.