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Online advertising spending is growing fast. Global spending on advertising will grow by 4.5% in 2011, double the rate of the previous year, according to ZenithOptimedia, an ad agency.

via www.economist.com

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Google began strictly as a search company, and it’s still their bread and butter. However, as the company has grown, it’s spread its tentacles like a giant octopus out to most parts of the Web. A benevolent giant octopus, providing lots of highly useful services, but a giant nonetheless. Try surfing the Web without touching a single Google service. It’s impossible.

How Google dominates the Web?

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Perfumes market and new fragrances.

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Despite strong sales, is the iPhone the leading smartphone or the leading mobile device in the world? As the smartphone war continues to heat up with the introduction of new Android-powered devices, the smartphone market share can look different from quarter to quarter. What will an iPhone, BlackBerry, and Android owner buy next for their new mobile device? Some of the answers to these questions might just surprise you.

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These are dark days, job-wise -- and the deck is stacked against men, whose unemployment rates top women's across the board

via www.askmen.com

As we have seen over the past decade, putting your money in gold and gold funds can be a safe haven during times of economic uncertainty and market volatility.

Is gold really just an option of fear?

via kiplinger.com

In times of great uncertainty and fear people want to invest in something that they can physically store and transport.

Here is a graphic look at some potentially troublesome sectors.

via www.focus.com

Google has been dominating the search engine market for years, but at least there are some competitors that have a few percent each.

But if you look at mobile search, i.e. search on mobile devices, which is more or less the smartphone market, Google is utterly crushing the competition to a level that it’s never managed in the regular search market.

Just look at this very telling chart, showing Google’s overall search and mobile search market shares in relation to those of Yahoo and Bing, its two closest rivals. (These are global stats.)

via royal.pingdom.com

via hothardware.com

We've got a very interesting infographic from hothardware.com detailing many little-known facts about the mobile app market, how the apps are being used, how quickly the market is expanding and how the competitors stack up. You learn something new every day, as they say.