Communications Major

Nielsen has released their report about the most widely used mobile apps in 2016. The top 8 apps were all owned by just two corporations: Google and Facebook. And even though 88% of Americans now…

A flood of stats about Sunday night’s Oscars ceremony has been unleashed upon the web. Among these stats are some looks at trends from Google, Twitter and Facebook. Best-actress winner Jennifer Lawrence was the most Google'd nominee during the broadcast, and her dress was the most Google'd item on the red carpet. "Argo" as best picture with 85,300 tweets per minute (tpm) nosed out Adele's performance of Bond-theme song "Skyfall" at 82,300 (tpm). Meanwhile, Facebook reported the Oscar buzz was the social network's biggest buzz of the year (bigger than the Super Bowl or the Grammys) with 66.5 million Oscar mentions during the live telecast.

This week's SOPA protests shined a light on what other popular sites and services could lose in revenue just by shutting down for 1-day: eBay, $28 million; Facebook, $11.7 million; Google, $100 million....

It's not just you. The social network experienced a major outage on Monday. In an unrelated occurrence, Google's Gmail service also went down on Monday for approximately 40 minutes.