Julianne Pepitone at CNNMoney shares traffic stats from Hitwise showing that Facebook was the most visited site in the U.S. for the week ending March 13th, beating out top-seat Google for the first time for a full weeklong period.
Stan Schroeder at Mashable shares the findings of a recent study showing that “mobile app downloads should jump from 7 billion in 2009 to almost 50 billion in 2012.”
Raj Dash at All Facebook tells us about an upgrade to Facebook’s search feature that includes more results that are related to your social graph on the network, in addition to “globally relevant results.”
Stan Schroeder at Mashable shares traffic and user stats from Tumblr showing strong growth for the micro-blogging platform, in addition to a couple details on Tumblr’s soon-to-be-released revenue generating features.
Mobile news headlines were made at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain yesterday when Microsoft unveiled a new version of its mobile operating system: Windows Phone 7 Series.
Microsoft released this preview video to show off the system’s “live tile” interface:
This video is currently ranked #2 on Unruly Media’s Viral Video Chart with nearly 55,000 views since it was released yesterday.
Microsoft says hardware partners have already started building compatible phones, which are expected to be available in stores this holiday season.
Benny Evangelista at the San Francisco Chronicle shares stats from Compete Inc., which show Facebook surpassing Google as the top traffic referrer to sites such as Yahoo and MSN.
Eric A. Taub at The New York Times tells us about advances in mobile digital TV, with eight Washington D.C. television stations beginning to broadcast mobile DTV signal this April.
Leena Rao at TechCrunch previews a new app from mobile social network Loopt that provides users with deals and coupons from local merchants, similar to the incentives offered to Foursquare and Yelp users.
Nick O’Neill at All Facebook tells us that the social network’s search function will soon see an upgrade with help from Microsoft’s Bing search engine, even though Facebook is no longer serving up Microsoft ad inventory.
Benny Evangelista at the San Francisco Chronicle takes a closer look at Pepsi’s decision to avoid advertising during the Super Bowl and instead turn its attention to social media.
