Nov 3, 2010 | Uncategorized
News Corporation has revealed that 105,000 readers have paid to read The Times and Sunday Times online and via mobiles, since both broadsheet papers’ websites went behind a paywall four months ago. The media giant revealed a further 100,000 people have a joint...
Nov 3, 2010 | Uncategorized
Graduate unemployment has risen to its highest level for 17 years, with many UK university leavers valuing remote working, according to new research. According to a recent study, the graduate class of 2009 found that 8.9 percent were out of work in January 2010, the...
Nov 3, 2010 | Uncategorized
Twitter has announced plans to include Promoted Tweets into the stream of user updates, and has begun testing user reaction to the service on the micro-blog’s partner site HootSuite. In a blog post announcing the move, the company said it has reached the third step of...
Nov 3, 2010 | Uncategorized
Samsung Electronics has become the first UK advertiser to run display advertising on YouTube’s mobile site to promote its iPad rival, the Galaxy Tab. The YouTube mobile advertising forms part of a wider marketing launch campaign for Samsung’s Galaxy Tab, which will...
Nov 3, 2010 | Uncategorized
More than 90% percent of the Spanish internet population use the web for search and social networking, according to new data. comScore has released a ranking of the top ten Web properties and categories in Spain based on the comScore Media Metrix audience measurement...
Nov 3, 2010 | Uncategorized
Facebook has bought most of Drop.io, an online content-sharing service, for an undisclosed sum. Drop.io is a service that lets users create a “drop” where they can share documents, videos and other digital content. The user can set a time for how long the...
Nov 3, 2010 | Uncategorized
Advertising is beginning to pay off for Google’s YouTube, and it has now has served 500 million views of its paid Promoted Videos, a service it launched less than two years ago. The news follows Google CEO Eric Schmidt’s recent hints that YouTube is...
Nov 3, 2010 | Uncategorized
Based on thousands of unique visitors, July 2010 vs July 2009
Nov 2, 2010 | Uncategorized
WPP has seen its revenues climb 12.2% during the third quarter of this year, with the advertising giant cautiously optimistic heading out of the global economic crisis. Q3 trading update reveals reported revenues up 12.2% to £2.253bn. Total year-on-year sales from the...
Nov 2, 2010 | Uncategorized
People in the Netherlands racked up the most website visits per month in Europe, and spent the most time on web portals, according to new data. The 11.9 million internet users in the Netherlands age 6 or older spent an average of 31.9 hours online in September 2010,...
Nov 2, 2010 | Uncategorized
YouTube’s CEO and co-founder Chad Hurley is stepping down from the position to take on an advisory role at the site. The transition has been undergoing and his duties at YouTube have shrunk for the past two years. Hurley revealed the move at a TechCruch event in...
Nov 2, 2010 | Uncategorized
Climbers at the top of Mount Everest, the world’s highest peak, will now be able to make video calls and surf the Internet on their mobile phones, a Nepalese telecom group claims. Ncell, a subsidiary of Swedish phone giant TeliaSonera, says it has set up a...
Nov 2, 2010 | Uncategorized
Despite its vast potential, many companies have yet to capitalise on social media’s ability to not only listen to customers, but analyse conversations and turn the information into bottom-line benefit, according to a new survey. Many organisations cling to old...
Nov 2, 2010 | Uncategorized
Apple has reportedly teamed with SIM-card manufacturer Gemalto to create a ‘special’ SIM card that could allow the company to offer telephony services direct rather than rely on third party carriers. According to a report on technology news site GigaOM,...
Nov 2, 2010 | Uncategorized
People in the Netherlands and the UK racked up the most website visits per month in Europe, according to new data.The study, from ComScore, revealed that the Netherlands ranked highest among European countries in terms of frequency of internet visitation with 78.2...
Nov 2, 2010 | Uncategorized
Social networks are sending nearly 13% more traffic to online retailers this year than last year, according to Experian Hitwise, the online competitive intelligence service. The company’s analysis, taken from their latest report “Getting to grips with...
Nov 2, 2010 | Uncategorized
Mobile subcribers who watch TV/ video on Mobile phones, July 2009 vs July 2010 (‘000 people per month).
Nov 1, 2010 | Uncategorized
The internet is worth £100bn annually to the UK economy, comprising 7.2% of the gross domestic product, which is expected to reach 10% within five years, according to a survey commissioned by Google. The figure represents a higher proportion than the construction,...
Nov 1, 2010 | Uncategorized
Pictures of Sony Ericson’s widely rumoured ‘PlayStation phone’ have been released, confirming speculation that the electronics giant is set to take on Apple in the smartphone market. Speculation that a Sony PSP (Play Station Portable) mobile smartphone was in...
Nov 1, 2010 | Uncategorized
Nearly two thirds (60%) of people who ‘like’ or share branded content online are not its customers, with many feeling positive about the company after, according to new research. The study, from YouTube and supported by the Internet Advertising Bureau, highlights the...
