The Galaxy S II has seen much success in Europe, and we’ve seen leaks pointing to its arrival in the great states. During a South Korean media event yesterday, Samsung’s chief of mobile business division confirmed our suspicion, saying the phone will land in August. Will we see the European version or the ‘Samsung Within’?
Amazon Affiliate members in California got a rude awakening this morning when they received and email from Amazon telling them that all Affiliate programs would be terminated by September 30th. This is in reaction to a proposed CA law that would tax Amazon purchases because Affiliate Account holders (workers) live and work in the State.
The whole thing is up for debate but we found the last sentence in the letter (whole thing pasted below the fold):
We are also working on alternative ways to help California residents monetize their websites and we will be sure to contact you when these become available.
We noted yesterday that Amazon was getting their own ad network, which would go head to head with Google and others.
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The WSJ reports that Google has hit an internet first: one billion unique visitors in a month’s time. The number comes from comScore data released earlier today, citing that the visitors came in the month of May. While on its way to one billion unique visitors, Google saw a 8.4% increase over April month. Microsoft is trailing behind with a close second of 905 million unique visitors a month.
That’s about one seventh of the world’s population visiting Google.com last month. Considering the difficulties Google is having trying to reach the 1.4B people in China, the news is no small feat.
