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China’s most popular online search engine, predicts sales increase that even exceeds analysts’ estimations. Baidu is positive in its forecasts as Google lost market share amid a censorship dispute with Chinese regulators.

It’s well known Twitter is gaining popularity increasingly alluring more and more users. This fact is proved by the figures presented by comScore that showed 73.5 million unique individuals registered in January. That is up 8% from December, 2009 (when it was 65.2 million visitors).

Twitter’s annual growth rate makes up a phenomenal 1,105%. A year ago, Twitter.com attracted only an estimated 6 million visitors.

In late Tuesday trading the Chinese search engine, Baidu, shares surged as the company unveiled results that beat Wall Street anticipations and boosted its guidance for the first quarter.

Baidu reported it earned $1.88 per share in its Q4, compared to $1.22 a share this time last year.

According to a new report from Anchor Intelligence, click fraud rate surged during the fourth quarter of 2009.

According to the figures US government presented Monday, sales of new single-family homes in the country soared more than it had been expected in June. At the same time, the inventory of homes for sale fell to a more than 11-year low. 

As the Commerce Department reported, sales grew by 11% to an annual rate of 384,000 last month, while the number of new homes still for sale fell to 281,000, the lowest level since February 1998.