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\n\"Monster<\/a><\/p>\n

While we “don’t do numbers” at RedMonk, I come across many interesting numbers each week. Here are some:<\/p>\n

These always work out fantastically…<\/a><\/h2>\n

\n Comcast is to take a 51% stake in NBC Universal<\/b>, with the company’s existing majority owner, General Electric, hanging onto the remaining 49%<\/b>. The transaction attaches a $30bn (\u00a318bn) valuation to NBCU<\/b>, which encompasses the NBC television network, the Hollywood studio Universal Pictures, theme parks and cable channels such as CNBC, Bravo, MSNBC and Oxygen.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Gordon Likes the PaaS<\/a><\/h2>\n
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James [Urquhart] also notes<\/a> that “Ruby on Rails platform service vendor Heroku<\/b><\/a> reportedly hosts more than 40,000 applications<\/b><\/a> now<\/b>. At its Dreamforce conference in San Francisco, Salesforce.com<\/b><\/a> mentioned<\/b><\/a> it had approximately 135,000 applications running on its<\/b> Force.com<\/b><\/a> platform<\/b>” and that “anecdotal evidence suggests there is a large body of Web application developers running on both the Java and Python instances” of Google App Engine<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Google App Engine’s relatively low profile was one reason to be somewhat skeptical of PaaS a year ago. Today, I’m still unconvinced App Engine is living up to some of the early expectations that surrounded it. Nonetheless, in the context of clear PaaS advances elsewhere, it’s another data point for an at least moderately popular offering.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

C.R.E.A.M. – Industry Analyst Edition<\/a><\/h2>\n
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AMR is known for its emphasis on supply chain management. It has roughly 40 analysts and 45 sales representatives, and is on track to gross $40 million this year<\/b>, according to Gartner.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Thinking in made up math land: that’s $1M per analyst. Holy crap!<\/p>\n

Sun Shipping Less Hardware & Unix market shrinks<\/a><\/h2>\n

\n In the third quarter of 2009, Sun’s revenue share dropped by 1.8 per cent compared to the same period in 2008 to hit 7.4 per cent<\/b>. Its share of shipments also fell away, declining by 0.9 per cent to 2.6 per cent year over year<\/b>. Sun was also the only vendor not to experience sequential revenue growth, Gartner said….The Unix server market overall was worth $2.6 billion, a drop of 21.2 percent from the third quarter last year<\/b>.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

See the full story for<\/a> IBM, HP, Fujitsu, Dell, and NEC numbers.<\/p>\n

Piracy<\/s> Fair Use Profits<\/a><\/h2>\n

\n With a report<\/a> (PDF) released today, the Fair Syndication Consortium says that over a 30-day period in October and November, more than 75,000 websites “reused” at least one newspaper article without sharing revenue with the newspaper<\/b>. And Google, the study says, accounted for 53 per cent of the ad dollars<\/b> pulled in by such unlicensed content.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The BestBuy API<\/a><\/h2>\n

\n [T]he hammering on Best Buy\u2019s Remix API. According to @bestbuyremix<\/a>: 5.7 million API calls yesterday<\/b>. The 19th to yesterday (5 days) accounts for 61% of our total so far this month<\/b>. The day before, @bestbuyremix reported 5.3 million API calls<\/b>.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Look forward to more non-tech companies opening up their APIs, esp. as things like the iPhone proliferate. It’ll be like having a web page: customers show up on the web wanting to buy things, so you need a web retail site. Same thing with APIs: customers start using mobile\/handheld apps that rely on letting them buy things in the field, and you (retailer) better have API support for it.<\/p>\n

For more: in relation to Sonoa’s Mobile App Accelerator<\/a>, we talk about APIs like this during this week’s IT Management Cloud Podcast<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Online Retail<\/a><\/h2>\n
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Amazon got 13.55 percent of U.S. visits among the top 500, up 22 percent from 11.06 percent on Black Friday a year ago and up 9 percent<\/b> from Thanksgiving Day this year. This is the second year in a row that Amazon was the top site on Black Friday. That means that the typical pattern is holding up, as<\/b> Walmart.com<\/b><\/a> has been the No. 1 site on Thanksgiving Day for the past five years<\/b>.<\/p>\n

Walmart was the second-most-visited site with 11.8 percent of visits to the top 500, up 13 percent from 9.88 percent<\/b> on Black Friday a year ago but down 25 percent from Thanksgiving Day 2009<\/b>. Target had 5.65 percent of visits to the top 500 sites<\/b> on Black Friday, up 22 percent from 4.62 percent a year ago<\/b>, and flat compared to Thanksgiving Day 2009.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The other interesting thing here is the dominance of traditional, so-called “brick and mortar” outlets on this list. People clearly prefer traditional brands once they open up on the web. In fact, out of the top 20, there are only 2 .com retailers: Amazon and Overstocked<\/b>. Also, fandango gets a nice boost as families try to come up with some activity that doesn’t involve talking with each other ;&gt;<\/p>\n

Related stories:<\/p>\n