May 12, 2011 | Uncategorized
Shares of China’s largest social networking firm Renren have lost almost all the gains made since its US stock market debut last week, trading down 8%. The drop follows lingering accounting concerns and fears of further regulation and censorship from...
May 11, 2011 | Uncategorized
It’s a massive sum for a company that doesn’t turn a profit, but could internet phone company Skype finally get the step-change it needs? Microsoft’s dominance in Office could see Skype integrated into the operating systems of hundreds of millions of...
May 11, 2011 | Uncategorized
Ford takes the lead as the most searched for Automotive brand in the UK, accounting for just over 11% of all branded searches between January 2011 and March 2011, according to new research. The data, from Experian Hitwise’s first UK Automotive Brand Index, reveals the...
May 11, 2011 | Uncategorized
Business-based social network LinkedIn plans to sell stock at $32 to $35 per share in an initial public offering that would value the professional social-networking firm at more than $3bn, the company said in a government document. As the first US social-networking...
May 11, 2011 | Uncategorized
LoveFilm, iTunes and Amazon are bracing themselves for a major launch from Google-owned YouTube into the online movie business. A global deal with key Hollywood studios will give YouTube access to 3,000 online movie titles to rent in its movie store. This is a major...
May 10, 2011 | Uncategorized
The countdown is underway to the launch of a major global play for music by the world’s largest online media property. At the I/O developer conference there was intensive talk of the long awaited Google music platform. More on what to expect as the testing goes...
May 10, 2011 | Uncategorized
Want to see a tipping point as it happens? Look at global smartphone penetration this year… Latest data on smartphones from Canalys uncovers a global leap in smartphone use as sales of smartphones rise 83% year-on-year. In the first quarter of 2011 over 100m...
May 10, 2011 | Uncategorized
The regulation of online content and businesses has proved a difficult challenge for all countries. Latest to change their approach is China, with the government this week announcing a new agency to oversee internet regulation in China. This comes as big Chinese firms...
May 10, 2011 | Uncategorized
There is a misalignment between the objectives of marketing departments and CEOs, according to the results of a new survey. The research from Revenue Performance Management solutions Eloqua determined that only half (51 per cent) of marketing departments carry a...
May 9, 2011 | Uncategorized
A Twitter account naming super-injunction celebrities attracted over 34,000 followers in less than a day, sparking fears that the micro-blogging site could face pressure from the UK legal establishment. The tweets, which were all posted early afternoon on Sunday, list...
May 9, 2011 | Uncategorized
The Wall Street Journal launched “SafeHouse” a new site that lets people anonymously post online submissions to help uncover fraud and abuse in business and politics. SafeHouse’s security features include file encryption and the possibility for a...
May 6, 2011 | Uncategorized
Google Sites ranked as the top European web property in March, attracting 330.3 million unique visitors and reaching 90.8 percent of the total European Internet audience, according to new research from comScore. The data shows Microsoft Sites ranked second with 272.8...
May 6, 2011 | Uncategorized
DraftFCB has bought London-based Blue Barracuda, as part of agency’s new ‘international mergers and acquisitions programme’. Founded in 2002, Blue Barracuda provides full-service digital strategies for such clients as Pizza Hut, Getty Images, Roche...
May 5, 2011 | Uncategorized
Germany has the most web users in Europe, but the Dutch and British spend the most time online, according to new data from comScore. The data provides an overview of Internet usage in Europe, showing 363.7 million unique people went online in March 2011 for an average...
May 5, 2011 | Uncategorized
Traditional audience measurement metrics that do not adjust for cookie deletion overestimate the number of unique users by two to threefold, according to a new report. The MediaMind semiannual Benchmark research was based on 26 billion impressions served from Jan to...
May 5, 2011 | Uncategorized
Spotify has launched an app letting users synchronise playlists and songs bought through its music streaming service with Apple’s iPod. The move signals a new phase in the Swedish firm’s strategy as it struggles to monetise its popular ad-funded music...
May 5, 2011 | Uncategorized
Amazon has launched MyHabit.com, holding brief online “flash” sales of clothes. With the new site, Amazon aims to emulate the success of flash sales and group buying sites such as Gilt. Myhabit sells high-end apparel for men, women and children at deep...
May 5, 2011 | Uncategorized
If William and Catherine didn’t invite you, then maybe you’re one of the 400m who tuned in on YouTube? Twitter traffic spiked at 300 Tweets-per-second (with Kate’s sister earning a hashtag or two); Facebook tracked around 75 status updates per second; mobile network...
May 4, 2011 | Uncategorized
Yandex, Russia’s most popular internet search engine, plans to set the price of its planned initial public offering on U.S. stock exchange Nasdaq by May 23, according to a news report. Reuters cites two sources close to the placement saying the search giant is...
May 4, 2011 | Uncategorized
The death of Osama bin Laden broke Twitter records, with “the highest sustained rate of tweets ever”, according to the micro-blogging service. For more than an hour there were over 3,000 tweets per second about bin Laden, peaking at 5,106 tweets per second as...
