Jan 18, 2012 | Uncategorized
Google and News Corp chairman Rupert Murdoch have become embroiled in a war of words after the media tycoon accused the internet giant of being a ‘piracy leader’. The News Corporation chairman tweeted that Google “streams movies free” and “sells...
Jan 18, 2012 | Uncategorized
Foursquare is rolling out its own search engine, called Explore, as the location-based social network looks to expand its audience. The firm descibed Explore as a product to add “an ‘interesting’ layer to the whole world, tailored just for you.” In a statement, the...
Jan 18, 2012 | Uncategorized
Over the festive period in the UK, paid search ads generated 50% more transactions than last year, resulting in a 26% rise in revenues from the medium, according to new research. The study, from digital marketing software provider Kenshoo, illustrate the UK’s...
Jan 17, 2012 | Uncategorized
Wikipedia has become the latest site to announce its plan to go offline Wednesday in protest of the controversial US Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA.) The user-generated news site Reddit and the blog Boing Boing have also said they will take part in the...
Jan 17, 2012 | Uncategorized
From the first tradeshows to the birth of smartphones, there have been many innovations that profoundly influenced the way businesses reach, engage and educate buyers. This infographic from Eloqua and creative agency JESS3 spotlights 26 disruptive innovations that...
Jan 17, 2012 | Uncategorized
The average number of promotional email campaigns by top retailers in the US hit an all-time high during 2011, rising 16% on the previous year, according to new research. The study, from email solutions provider Responsys found that Retailers sent their subscribers...
Jan 17, 2012 | Uncategorized
YouTube attracted 606m visitors in the UK in December, one in four visits to social networks and gaining ground on market leader facebook in the process, according to new research. The study, from Experian Hitwise, indicate that YouTube was the fastest-growing website...
Jan 17, 2012 | Uncategorized
Apple was the top smartphone handsey maker in the US last year in terms of market share, according to new research. The study, from Nielsen, indicates that 295 of all smartphone owners in then US own an Apple handset, followed by 21% for Android and 17% for...
Jan 16, 2012 | Uncategorized
The head of a consumer online privacy watchdog says US regulators should look into Google’s new personalised search to see whether there are antitrust or privacy issues. “Google is an entrenched player trying to fight off its challenger Facebook by using...
Jan 16, 2012 | Uncategorized
US-based video streaming site Hulu will debut its first original scripted series, the political docudrama Battleground, next month. The move marks another step for HUlu to becoming a full-fledged alternative to cable television. Launching on February 14th in the US,...
Jan 16, 2012 | Uncategorized
Microsoft’s Bing search engine now ranks second behind Google in the Internet’s most lucrative market, according to new figures. The findings, from comScore, indicate that Bing and Microsoft’s other websites fielded 2.75 billion search requests in the U.S....
Jan 13, 2012 | Uncategorized
The relationship between former search partners Twitter and Google has become more frosty this week, with the two web giants locked in a war of words over the increasingly important role of social search. The row follows Google’s recent “Your World” update means users...
Jan 13, 2012 | Uncategorized
High street bookshop Waterstone’s is dropping the apostrophe from its name to make it more “versatile” for online use. Managing director James Daunt said the amendment was a “more versatile and practical” spelling of the name for the...
Jan 13, 2012 | Uncategorized
Google sites, including YouTube, accounted for over 91% of all searches in UK in December 2011, according to new research. The study, from Hitwise, also found that the firms video-sharing site YouTube accounted for a quarter of visits to social networking sites during...
Jan 13, 2012 | Uncategorized
Microsoft has scrapped its plans to launch an online video streaming service, following poor reception, according to a news report. The software giant has been trying to set up its own video streaming service for well over a year. Reuters reports that the firm has...
Jan 13, 2012 | Uncategorized
The European Commission (EC) intends to double e-commerce sales and the internet’s contribution to European GDP by 2015 in order to help drive job creation and mitigate the ongoing economic crisis. The institution said that at present while online e-commerce...
Jan 12, 2012 | Uncategorized
Google has begun offering users ‘personal results’ alongside its standard search results, as the internet giant continues its efforts to rival Facebook as the dominant social media destination. From this week in the US, Google will pluck only the results most relevant...
Jan 12, 2012 | Uncategorized
After a year of technical innovations, most notably the emergence and rapid adoption of smartphone and tablet technology, the shopper-seller relationship has changed dramatically. In this article, Rakuten, one of the world’s top 3 E-commerce and Internet service...
Jan 12, 2012 | Uncategorized
Businesses, charities, communities and other legal entities are being urged to act fast to avoid missing out on the internet domain name legislation, which comes into effect today (Thurs 12th Jan 2012). From, 12th January, ICANN, the body that regulates internet...
Jan 12, 2012 | Uncategorized
The online travel industry is relying less on seasonal peaks to boost sales, according to new research from Hitwise. Traditionally, travel always been a very seasonal industry online. Each year summer and winter holidays produce two clear and defined periods of online...
