Part of me wants to believe in a quasi-Utopian view of spending money, the rational view, that people spend money wisely, on things they need, some on things they want, not spending it on things they…

According to Millward Brown, a market research firm, Amazon.com was the most trusted and recommended brand in the U.S. during 2009.

Facebook is comfortably ahead of the social networking pack when it comes to the sharing of content, according to data provided to TechCrunch by Gigya.

As tax season nears, Internet users in the U.S. are flocking to tax-related sites, according to comScore. Travel sites also saw big increases in traffic in January.

Will ads in Twitter streams turn off the social networking giant’s users? This is a question that the company seems ready to face as Twitter seems set to unveil an ad platform in early March.

Jiffy Lube International has renewed its commitment to the American Heart Association’s Go Red For Women movement with the reprisal of year three of its Jiffy Lube Maintenance Partners for Life campaign

Headlines from the last week.

There will be 5 billion mobile cellular subscriptions around the world in 2010, according to the International Telecommunication Union (ITU).

According to three major reports, Microsoft’s Bing was the search engine that had the strongest January, while Google and Yahoo! struggled.

The use of coupons increased in 2009, thanks partly to the surge of digital coupons, according to Coupons.com.