MARKETING NEWS BITES: Google’s new ads, Facebook drives more traffic and 3D TV arrives

A quick round-up of this morning’s news from around the web:

Google has released two new ads on YouTube to showcase some features of its web browser, Chrome. Extensions and Translate are two components that flesh out users’ browsing experiences while simplifying online actions at the same time. The spots were created by agency BBH.  Mashable

According to StatCounter’s GlobalStats research arm, Twitter now generates almost 10% of social media driven global hits to websites, while Facebook still reigns supreme as the primary source of traffic to global websites with almost half (48%) of ‘Social Media hits’. Surprisingly, the number two social media traffic generator is not Twitter, but StumbleUpon with almost a quarter (25%). The data for March 2010 is said to be based on 13 billion page views across the global StatCounter network of member sites.  Techcrunch

Google has snapped up chip maker AgniLux, sparking talk of the internet giants building its own server processors or even considering launching its own tablet.  However, CEO Eric Schmidt reiterated several times through his speech at the Atmosphere Cloud Computing conference that Google was not looking to make the hardware for Chrome OS devices, merely offering the operating system.  Tech Radar

A home viewing revolution stars today with the first 3D television hitting the shops. The Samsung 40-inch 3D-TV is now on sale at John Lewis.  Daily Express

And Microsoft has seen its profits leap by 35% in the first three months of 2010 – as its Windows 7 operating system continued to prove popular, becoming the best-selling operating system to date. The software giant made a net profit of £2.6bn and said it had also seen “strong growth” from its Bing search engine business and XBox Live.  BBC