Internet mail or email, as it is commonly known these days, has come a long way since the days of AOL's "You've Got Mail" era (Who remembers the movie of the same name?)...Well anyway, as of August 2011, Windows Live Hotmail has 360 million users, Yahoo! Mail comes in 2nd with 302 million users and Gmail is in third place with 260 million users... Those may be the numbers that advertisers and potential investors are looking at, but what about the stories behind those numbers...
Although Google may be in third place in the free email market, Google Search is number one among search engines with more than several million queries per day...FYI, Google Inc has been making some crazy moves...They acquired Zagat, the popular restaurant review guide last month and Daily Deals was also acquired in September...In April, Google acquired ITA Software, which is a software developer for the airline and travel industry...Those are only a few of the deals that Google has made this year...Google Labs officially closed its doors October 14th and that's when Google Body Browser, the Google Earth-like explorer for human anatomy moved to Zygote Body as a web application and became available for free as an Android app...Google+ (the latest challenger to Facebook) has a mere 40 million users for now...Google's moves makes me believe that their leaders are working on some sort of master plan...They apparently have a vision...
Meanwhile, the workforce at Yahoo is less than chipper these days with reports that employee moral is pretty low, following the ouster of CEO Carol Bartz...
But I wonder if Hotmail, Yahoo! Mail and Gmail are just nipping at their fingers regarding the explosive social media empire that Facebook has racked up...more than 800 million active users...That's just crazy...Its almost as many as the former three combined...And for those of you that may be wondering, Twitter has more than 200 million tweetees (I guess that's what you would call a Twitter user)...
Although Google may be in third place in the free email market, Google Search is number one among search engines with more than several million queries per day...FYI, Google Inc has been making some crazy moves...They acquired Zagat, the popular restaurant review guide last month and Daily Deals was also acquired in September...In April, Google acquired ITA Software, which is a software developer for the airline and travel industry...Those are only a few of the deals that Google has made this year...Google Labs officially closed its doors October 14th and that's when Google Body Browser, the Google Earth-like explorer for human anatomy moved to Zygote Body as a web application and became available for free as an Android app...Google+ (the latest challenger to Facebook) has a mere 40 million users for now...Google's moves makes me believe that their leaders are working on some sort of master plan...They apparently have a vision...
Meanwhile, the workforce at Yahoo is less than chipper these days with reports that employee moral is pretty low, following the ouster of CEO Carol Bartz...
But I wonder if Hotmail, Yahoo! Mail and Gmail are just nipping at their fingers regarding the explosive social media empire that Facebook has racked up...more than 800 million active users...That's just crazy...Its almost as many as the former three combined...And for those of you that may be wondering, Twitter has more than 200 million tweetees (I guess that's what you would call a Twitter user)...
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