Earlier this week, news broke that Seattle-based QuestionPro, a leading web-survey and market research company, has acquired Pollbob, a New Orleans-based startup at the forefront of the mobile social polling space.
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"Storm vulnerability is made worse by ongoing wetland loss and barrier island erosion, " according to the U.S. Geological Survey Web site.
Today he is launching the Web Index, an annual survey that measures which 61 countries have been impacted the most and least by the Web, a.k.a. that thing he created more than 20 years ago.
That's one of the findings of a recent worldwide survey by Web security company McAfee.
Also, more than three of every 10 smartphone users have no password on their device according to a global survey by Web security firm McAfee.
These then link to a web-based dashboard where survey data can be tracked on Google Maps and Google Earth, according to Water for People.
Tom Coughiln of Coughlin Associates and Jim Handy of Objective Analysis, two market and technology analysis firms who write blogs on the Forbes web site have initiated a survey of digital storage end users.
"General Mills is one of the best work environments I have ever experienced, " a web developer in Minneapolis wrote in the survey.
Results from our analysis of proprietary survey data show that the Web 2.0 use of these companies is significantly improving their reported performance.
Though the growth of HTML5 has hit a few speed bumps, a healthy 63% of developers are interested in developing for the mobile web, according to a Q4 2012 survey of developer preferences by mobile platform Appcelerator.
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The survey is some 100 times larger than the previous largest map of the web of dark matter, gathered by the Hubble telescope's Cosmic Evolution Survey, or Cosmos.
More than half of U.S. households now shop on the Web "regularly, " according to the survey, with consumers citing convenience, assortment and price deals as the biggest draws.
"Wilkins is the largest ice shelf on the Antarctic Peninsula yet to be threatened, " David Vaughan of the British Antarctic Survey said, according to the Web site.
According to the results of job Web site Vault.com's sixth annual survey of office amour, 60% of workers say they've engaged in a workplace romance.
The State of Women-Owned Businesses survey, conducted jointly by NAWBO and Web.com, found that 81% of female entrepreneurs are optimistic about their businesses overall performance over the next year.
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More than half said the review process regularly turns up ads to get job hunters to buy services or products, according to the survey by the International Association of Employment Web Sites, whose members power more than 60, 000 job boards.
The September Netcraft survey puts the open source Apache share of web servers at 57 percent.
The survey showed an increase in the use of web-based, or non-peer-to-peer methods, during the last six months.
Rather, they point to a 1998 International Data Corp. survey of emerging markets, which predicted that Web-based training is poised to explode.
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Companies are having so much success in finding new employees through social web tools that half of the employers included in the Jobvite survey reported plans to increase spending in that area and decrease spending on traditional job boards and employee recruiting firms.
According to the NETendances 2010 survey conducted by CEFRIO, 2.9 million Quebecers use Web-based social networks, 1.4 million on a daily basis.
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Still, the survey shows how fast the Like button has spread across the web since Facebook launched it in April 2010.
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But there might also be other consequences of a web-service world that require vigilance, as the conclusion of this survey will show.
Among the skills in greatest demand are software and web development, required by 66% of those who took part in the survey, with commercial and business skills sought by 53% and project management by 49%.
University of Wisconsin Survey Center also expects a minimum of 30-40% response rate for web surveys to be valid.
There are some 600 Web sites that look suspiciously like illegal pyramid storefronts, according to a Federal Trade Commission survey last year.
According to a recent survey by the Pew Internet and Life Project, 60 percent of Americans access the Web wirelessly via laptops or smart phones.
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British web users are spending 65% more time online than three years ago, according to a recent survey of net habits.
Despite a growing cadre of viewing alternatives like the Web and repeat-heavy schedules on the broadcast networks, people are still watching television, a new survey finds.
The same week that the Pew survey was released, Delta Airlines initiated a plan in which travelers who book their tickets through the Delta Web site get a small discount.
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