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U.S. Online Display Advertising Market Delivers 22 Percent Increase in Impressions vs. Year Ago

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*Facebook.com Now Accounts for Nearly 1 in 4 Online Display Ads in U.S.*

RESTON, VA, November 8, 2010 – comScore, Inc., a leader in measuring the digital world, today released an overview of the U.S. online display advertising market for Q3 2010, which showed strong gains following softness for much of 2009. Data from the comScore Ad Metrix online advertising intelligence service indicated that nearly 1.3 trillion display ads were delivered to U.S. Internet users during the third quarter, marking a 22-percent increase versus year ago. (more…)

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comScore Reports September 2010 U.S. Mobile Subscriber Market Share

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*Android Platform Now Reaches More than 1 in 5 U.S. Smartphone Subscribers*

RESTON, VA, November 3, 2010 – comScore, Inc., a leader in measuring the digital world, today released data from the comScore MobiLens service, reporting key trends in the U.S. mobile phone industry during the three month average period ending September 2010. The report ranked the leading mobile original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and smartphone operating system (OS) platforms in the U.S. according to their share of current mobile subscribers ages 13 and older, and reviewed the most popular activities and content accessed via the subscriber’s primary mobile phone. The September report found Samsung to be the top handset manufacturer overall with 23.5 percent market share, while RIM led among smartphone platforms with 37.3 percent market share. (more…)

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Berkeley Lab Awarded $12.5 Million to Lead a U.S.-China Clean Energy Research Center

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The U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has been chosen to lead a consortium for a U.S.-China Clean Energy Research Center on Building Energy Efficiency. The Center will develop technologies for low-energy residential and commercial buildings, as well as work on commercialization of those technologies and research how human behavior affects building energy use. (more…)

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comScore Releases June 2010 U.S. Search Engine Rankings

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RESTON, VA – comScore, Inc. a leader in measuring the digital world, released (July 13) its monthly comScore qSearch analysis of the U.S. search marketplace.  

In June 2010, Americans conducted 16.4 billion core searches, up 3 percent vs. May.

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Hollywood’s Latest 3-D Animation Film ‘Despicable Me’ Advances Smarter Movie Production With IBM

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HOLLYWOOD, Calif. – 08 Jul 2010: IBM announced today that it has collaborated with Illumination Entertainment to help it meet the massive production requirements involved in creating its new computer-animated 3-D feature film, “Despicable Me.”  

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Reseachers Predict Larger-than-average Gulf ‘Dead Zone’; Impact of Oil Spill Unclear

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ANN ARBOR, Mich.—University of Michigan aquatic ecologist Donald Scavia and his colleagues say this year’s Gulf of Mexico “dead zone” is expected to be larger than average, continuing a decades-long trend that threatens the health of a $659 million fishery.

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