Oct 19, 2010 | Uncategorized
The top 10 applications on Facebook have all been transmitting user data, including access to people’s names and, in some cases, their friends’ names, to dozens of advertising and Internet tracking firms, according to a news report. The Wall Street Journal...
Oct 19, 2010 | Uncategorized
Internet brands are now the closest to UK consumers’ hearts, with the three most popular brands in the UK coming from the web, according to a new survey. The latest Millward Brown celebrity and brand (Cebra) research revealed that Apple had the most buzz (a measure of...
Oct 19, 2010 | Uncategorized
Yahoo! is planning to launch Y Connect, letting users share content across multiple websites, in a similar way to Facebook’s connect platform. Facebook Connect has been a huge hit for Facebook allowing web users to login and comment on multiple websites with their...
Oct 18, 2010 | Uncategorized
New research from the Internet Advertising Bureau – the trade association for online and mobile advertising – reveals that mobile commerce has already become widely adopted in the UK, with 51% of mobile owners (23 million people) using their device to make payments,...
Oct 18, 2010 | Uncategorized
Mobile app store GetJar has exclusively launched the full Android version of the popular Angry Birds game for free, funded by advertising. The move means GetJar becomes the first distributor of the game, ahead of the Android app store. As a testament to the...
Oct 18, 2010 | Uncategorized
Microsoft’s Bing search engine has begun showing users which sites and products their Facebook friends like. The move, which will initially be rolled out in the US over the coming weeks, forms part of a continuing four-year deal between the two companies. The...
Oct 18, 2010 | Uncategorized
Greater Manchester Police have completed a Twitter hashtag campaign, as a means of protesting Government cutbacks by revealing the sheer number of incidents they face in a single day. The project, which began at 5:00am Thursday last week, revolved around the Twitter...
Oct 18, 2010 | Uncategorized
Google registered a 32 per cent jump in profits, beating market expectations and highlighting the success of its emerging businesses. The internet giant posted net income of $2.2 billion (£1.4bn) after revenues rose 23 per cent to 7.3 billion US dollars (£4.6bn) in...
Oct 15, 2010 | Uncategorized
Yahoo’s shares rose 11% yesterday on the back on speculation that the struggling online media giant is the object of a takeover attempt, with both AOL and News Corporation in the running as possible bidders. Reuters reports that several private equity firms have...
Oct 14, 2010 | Uncategorized
Nearly six in ten Britons (60 per cent) believe online advertising is neither relevant nor well targeted, according to a new YouGov survey. The research, carried out for the technology and media company Collective shows that brands are simply not connecting with the...
Oct 14, 2010 | Uncategorized
Facebook has launched two new features aimed at making the social network more secure.The company has introduced ‘one-time passwords’ aimed at people accessing Facebook on a public or shared computer, where other people could access profiles through browser history...
Oct 13, 2010 | Uncategorized
Microsoft has partnered with China’s largest online retailer Taobao.com, using Bing to power the web results for its new shopping search engine Etaosite. Taobao, which is a part of e-commerce giant Alibaba Group, launched Etao as a public beta version, calling it a...
Oct 13, 2010 | Uncategorized
Nearly half of web users have shared their internet passwords with at least one person in the past year, with youngsters being the most reckless with their sensitive information, according to new research. Research released by Webroot has revealed that most commonly...
Oct 13, 2010 | Uncategorized
UK shopping and comparison website mySupermarket has closed a $7.4m round led by Greylock Partners and Pitango Venture Capital and angel investors. mySupermarket has raised $22 million to date. Greylock and Pitango are both leading venture capital firms, and...
Oct 12, 2010 | Uncategorized
Over two-thirds of comments on Twitter go without response, with the first hour being critical to a Tweet’s lifespan, according to new research. Sysomos, maker of social media analysis tools, researched 1.2 billion tweets over two months and reported results that...
Oct 12, 2010 | Uncategorized
Google has developed cars that can drive themselves, testing seven such automobiles on 140,000 miles across the roads of America, in a move that could one day revolutionise the transport industry. Google said that the seven Google cars have driven 1,000 miles without...
Oct 12, 2010 | Uncategorized
Orange and T- Mobile have finally unveiled their ‘Everything Everywhere’ brand, following the merger of the two mobile networks last year. The launch, dubbed the ‘big switch-on’ allows the company’s combined 27 million customers to access coverage on both networks,...
Oct 11, 2010 | Uncategorized
Search and social conversion agency Tamar has published a white paper, called Mobile 2010, showing that desktop/laptop search has fallen by 15% while mobile search engine traffic has seen an increase of 247% in the past year. Tamar’s research also found another key...
Oct 11, 2010 | Uncategorized
Microsoft is gearing up to unveil its new Windows Phone 7 operating system and a compatible range of devices at a New York event today, as the software giant looks to take on the likes of Apple’s iPhone and Google’s Android in the fast growing smartphone market. The...
Oct 9, 2010 | Uncategorized
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