Sep 22, 2011 | Uncategorized
Google has opened Google+ up to the public with a raft of new features, including video hangouts, shared TV shows, and live collaborative document editing, as the internet giant gets serious about social media. The move follows a 90-day invitation-only field trial....
Sep 22, 2011 | Uncategorized
Japanese company Rakuten has bought UK online retail giant Play.com for £25m. Play.com is one of the largest ecommerce firms in the UK, selling music, books, clothes and electronics to over 14 million registered users. The company said the purchase marked a...
Sep 22, 2011 | Uncategorized
MySpace is delaying its planned relaunch until next month, following its acquisition in June for $35m by Specific Media and singer Justin Timberlake. Specific Media had plans to unveil the website’s new vision, which was rumored to be in the realm of music and...
Sep 22, 2011 | Uncategorized
Facebook is predicted to double revenue this year to £2.72bn, as advertisers flock to the social network. Figures released by market research firm eMarketer suggest that firms were more than twice as likely to use Facebook than Twitter. Advertising revenue is expected...
Sep 22, 2011 | Uncategorized
Facebook is set to unveil a real-time stream of what its users are watching and listening to online with a new ‘ticker’ tool, according to a new report. The Guardian reports that the social network will introduce the new “ticker” stream alongside partnerships with...
Sep 21, 2011 | Uncategorized
Japan led all markets in blog engagement, with the average visitor spending more than an hour (62.6 minutes) visitng blogs in June.
Sep 21, 2011 | Uncategorized
Google has launched its mobile payments system’ Google Wallet’ in the US, allowing people to pay for purchases simply by waving their smartphones at the cash register. The Google Wallet stores people’s credit card information, coupons and discount cards on smartphones...
Sep 21, 2011 | Uncategorized
Mobile broadband has reached one in eight people, or slightly over 10%, of the total world population, according to a new report by the United Nations (UN). The UN report by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) has found that adoption of mobile Internet is...
Sep 21, 2011 | Uncategorized
Video search engine Blinkx has introduced its Web channels for specialised ads targeted at special interest groups. Blinkx is hoping the move will boost its revenue by selling premium-rate ads aimed at niche target groups identified via chatrooms and other links....
Sep 20, 2011 | Uncategorized
Samsung ranked as the top OEM with 25.5% of U.S. mobile subscribers (up 1.0 percentage points), followed by LG with 20.9 percent share and Motorola with 14.1 percent share.
Sep 20, 2011 | Uncategorized
82.2 million people inthe US owned smartphones during the three months ending July 2011, up 10% from the preceding three month period. Google Android ranked as the top smartphone platform with 41.8% market share, up 5.4%.
Sep 20, 2011 | Uncategorized
Accessing social networking sites or blogs increased 2.1 percentage points to 30.1 percent of mobile subscribers in the three months from Apr to Jul 2011.
Sep 20, 2011 | Uncategorized
French Connection, Garnier, Sony Music and Samsung are among the top brands testing Google’s new visual search ad platform. The platform uses Google Googles, a visual search application that searches based on images taken by a user’s phone camera. The brands will run...
Sep 20, 2011 | Uncategorized
eBay is planning to launch a version of its StubHub ticket marketplace division in the UK by the end of the year, according to a news report. The move, first reported by the Financial Times, would put the company in direct competition with Seatwave and viagogo, the...
Sep 20, 2011 | Uncategorized
Yahoo! has revamped its search results pages with a cleaner design and more filtering options. The changes are apparent throughout Yahoo!’s Web, Images, Video, News, Blogs, Finance and Sports search results pages. 20/09/2011 New features include browser-inspired tabs...
Sep 20, 2011 | Uncategorized
US DVD rental and streaming business Netflix is rebranding its DVD by mail service and adding the option of game rentals to its existing. The changes were announced by Netflix Co-Founder and CEO Reed Hastings in a blog post. The blog post also aimed to appease...
Sep 20, 2011 | Uncategorized
Google has launched a new tool that helps users search and compare airline flight costs. The launch comes nearly five months after Google bought ITA Software, a US-based flight-information software company for $700m. The move has unnerved other travel industry...
Sep 19, 2011 | Uncategorized
Facebook recieved over 140 million unique visitors in May 2011, almost three times as many as its nearest rival, Blogger, which had 50 million unique visitors.
Sep 19, 2011 | Uncategorized
Google has bought German online voucher site DailyDeal.de for an undisclosed sum, as the internet giant looks to take on Groupon in the lucrative flash sales market. The site offers Groupon-style daily deals in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, with plans to expand...
Sep 19, 2011 | Uncategorized
Yahoo is reportedly attracting interest from potential buyers, with private equity firm Silver Lake Partners named as the first possible bidder for the embattled Internet giant. According to The Wall Street Journal, a number of potential suitors have contacted Yahoo...
