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CNBC.com users up 35 percent in March

CNBC.com was visited by 7.6 million unique users in March, up 35 percent compared to the same time period last year, according to data from comScore Media Metrix.

This is CNBC.com’s second best March ever in terms of unique visitors and its fourth best month ever in terms of uniques.

CNBC’s other mobile applications also saw increased usage in March.

CNBC’s iPhone application posted 571,000 unique visitors, a 2 percent increase year-over-year, according to Omniture.

CNBC mobile web recorded 2.7 million unique visitors, a 27 percent increase year-over-year.

However, CNBC’s iPad application posted 424,000 unique visitors, relatively flat compared to last year.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.