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Study: 4% of households bought OTT box for holidays [with chart]

Nearly a third (31 percent) of U.S. broadband households regularly watch over-the-top content - TV programs or movies accessed from the Internet - on their TVs, according to a new report from Parks Associates.

Harris Poll: Apple has best corporate reputation [with charts]

It’s a very good week for Apple. Not only did its share price rally above $500 for the first time, it also pushed Google into second place in the 2012 Harris Poll RQ Study of corporate reputation.

Survey: a third of IT leaders expect to hire in Q1

More than a third of IT decision-makers expect their companies to increase their headcounts during the first quarter, according to a new survey by Hanover, Md.-based TEKsystems and the Inavero Institute.

Bing inches up to second place search engine

When it comes to searching on the Internet, Microsoft sites inched ahead of Yahoo sites for market share, according to the comScore qSearch analysis for January 2012.

Survey: Google's personalized search raises concerns[with chart]

Google has been making significant changes to how it handles search, but according to a recent survey, it’s not receiving much support for the outcome.

Study: Tech helps bridge the generation gap

New research from AARP and Microsoft Corp. found that online communication helps bridge the generation gap, but that many people remain concerned about privacy and security.

Apps lose to Web during Super Bowl [with charts]

The NPD Group determined that cheerleaders for smartphone apps may be disappointed at how well they scored during Super Bowl XLVI.

TiVo's Super Bowl report says football rules over ads [with charts]

TiVo, which has been tracking must-see Super Bowl moments and advertisements for a decade, has released its report on what viewers actually watched on Sunday – and it wasn't the ads.

Tech CFOs amend revenue growth forecast

Nearly three in four chief financial officers of U.S. technology companies expect revenue to increase in 2012, though at a much smaller rate than last year, according to a new survey by financial advisory and consulting firm BDO.

Who wants Super Bowl tickets? Yahoo knows [with chart]

Here’s more fun with Super Bowl online statistics, this time courtesy of Yahoo, which reports receiving 50 percent more search requests for New England Patriots than for New York Giants.