Jul 26, 2012 | Uncategorized
BSkyB has reported pre-tax profits of £1.19bn – a record 17% increase on the previous year. Revenues were up 3% (to to £6.8bn) as the company grew its total subscriber base to 10.6m households during the 12 months to the end of June. This included 57,000 net new...
Jul 26, 2012 | Uncategorized
Facebook has announced that it is to open an engineering office in London, and has begun initial recruitment for 22 engineers. The new site will be Facebook’s first engineering office outside of the US – currently Facebook has locations in New York,...
Jul 26, 2012 | Uncategorized
With the Olympics less than a week away, which sponsors have made the best use of social media? This infographic from Gorkana shows that Coca-Cola has generated the greatest share of voice ahead of the games. It was discovered that Twitter is where most of the brands...
Jul 25, 2012 | Uncategorized
Twitter’s chief executive Dick Costolo has confirmed to the New York Times that the company is working on a tool that will allow users to export and download their entire archive of tweets. Currently users can only browse back through a limited number of their...
Jul 25, 2012 | Uncategorized
Apple’s operating system iOS is the most effective platform for driving mobile ad impressions, according to new data. The study forms part of Opera Software’s first State of Mobile Advertising report, highlighting key data and trends in mobile advertising worldwide....
Jul 25, 2012 | Uncategorized
Amazon is set to open a new London-based site for some of its design and development teams. The centre, based near London’s “Silicon Roundabout” will house hundreds of staff including software development engineers, graphic designers and teams from...
Jul 24, 2012 | Uncategorized
Google has launched Gmail SMS across Africa, a new tool that lets Gmail users who own a simple feature phone to send and receive emails using only text messages. The free service is currently available only in Ghana, Kenya, and Nigeria, but is likely to spread to...
Jul 24, 2012 | Uncategorized
Mail Online – the world’s leading online English-language newspaper website – has turned its first ever profit as revenues rose 80% year-on-year, predominantly driven by online advertising sales. Revenues for the quarter were boosted in the UK by the...
Jul 24, 2012 | Uncategorized
YouTube has launched a new tool letting users “blur” the faces of subjects before uploading them to the website. The service is designed to help protect people’s identities, whether it’s a child playing sports or an activist expressing an...
Jul 23, 2012 | Uncategorized
Nokia has posted worse than expected Q2 results, including a drop in smartphone sales of 34% as the number of devices sold fell 39% year-on-year. The firm, which was until recently the world’s biggest mobile phone maker, posted a net loss of 1.41 billion euros...
Jul 23, 2012 | Uncategorized
Rupert Murdoch, the chief executive and chairman of News Corporation has resigned from his directorships at NI Group Ltd, NewsCorp Investments and Times Newspaper Holdings. A spokesman at News International referred to the move as a “corporate house-cleaning...
Jul 23, 2012 | Uncategorized
Google is testing a new feature that lets users share links in their search results on the social network, as the web giant looks to boost the reach and influence of its Google+ social network. Sean Liu, product manager at Google, announced the launch of the new...
Jul 20, 2012 | Uncategorized
Fewer than half of all mobile phone users in the UK (47%) – make at least one voice call per day, compared to 58 per cent who send at least one SMS text message daily, according to the latest data from Ofcom. According to the Ofcom Communications Market Report,...
Jul 20, 2012 | Uncategorized
Microsoft has posted a loss of $492 million in the past quarter, the first ever for the software giant, as results were hit by a previously announced writeoff for its online ad business aQuantive. The software company, which was launched 26 years ago, had warned two...
Jul 20, 2012 | Uncategorized
The latest mobile advertising formats that are getting good response rates are also getting widespread use. Find out about the updated mobile ad unites the industry is moving to in America, and increasingly worldwide… The five new types of online units chosen by the...
Jul 20, 2012 | Uncategorized
Nearly every American (98%) says there are things that cause them to distrust the information found on the Internet, and 93% say their satisfaction with online information could be improved, according to the results of a new poll. Business ‘ask and answer’...
Jul 19, 2012 | Uncategorized
Most smartphone users (92%) still text despite access to IM and social networking messaging services, according to new research looking into the psycology of SMS. The study, from Acision, examines the behaviours behind text message usage. The study, which was...
Jul 19, 2012 | Uncategorized
81% of UK adults are now online compared to a European average of 65% according to IAB Europe’s Mediascope Europe report. UK internet users spending on average 16.8 hours per week online compared to European average of 14.8 hours says flagship media consumption...
Jul 18, 2012 | Uncategorized
Companies in the Fortune Global 100 were mentioned a total of 10,400,132 times online during a month-long period, with the majority of these mentions appearing on Twitter, according to a new report. The Burson-Marsteller Global Social Media Check-up 2012 examined the...
Jul 18, 2012 | Uncategorized
Google Nexus 7 goes on sale across a number of territories today including the UK, as the firm looks to rival Apple’s iPad in the growing tablet market. Google Nexus 7 is Google’s first branded tablet, priced from £127 for the standard version which makes...
