Mar 31, 2011 | Uncategorized
Salesforce.com is to buy social media analytics firm Radian6 for $326m, as the Online CRM firm looks to boost social media features for its clients. Radian6, which counts Dell , Kodak , PepsiCo , and UPS among its customers, makes products that monitor conversations...
Mar 31, 2011 | Uncategorized
Shopping in the UK has officially gone digital, with smartphones and their apps being added to the typical basket of goods used to calculate inflation. Dating agency fees have also been included for the first time to reflect the rising use of these websites, the...
Mar 30, 2011 | Uncategorized
A quarter of all advertising spent is now on the Internet, growing 12.8% in 2010 to reach a new milestone of £4,097m, according to the bi-annual advertising spend study from the Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB) and PwC. With total UK advertising spend in 2010 valued...
Mar 30, 2011 | Uncategorized
News Corp. is in preliminary talks to hand over control of Myspace to online music website Vevo.com, according to a news report. Bloomberg News reported the talks on its website Monday, citing three unnamed people with knowledge of the situation. Deal would see News...
Mar 30, 2011 | Uncategorized
AOL UK has launched its new Project Devil display advertising format, with RIM promoting their new BlackBerry TorchM and M&S, advertising their summer fashion range on a three paneled creative canvas. The Project Devil unit is displayed as a large creative...
Mar 30, 2011 | Uncategorized
Facebook is rolling out an upgraded version of Questions to everyone, following the beta version which launched last year. The feature lets users find out opinions and quickly poll their friends to help make a group decision. The new version makes questions easier and...
Mar 30, 2011 | Uncategorized
Imagine if one of the biggest film distributors teamed up with one of the biggest online movie streaming networks. That’s what Reuters are reporting this week, claiming US movie rental giant Netflix are close to a deal with Miramax to stream their massive...
Mar 30, 2011 | Uncategorized
For over a decade the music industry has been chasing ISPs to block and report illegal downloaders. New moves by the UK Telco giant BT could be the answer to all their dreams. BT is planning an online music download site with a difference: no profits at the start, and...
Mar 30, 2011 | Uncategorized
Journalism Online, a company started two years ago to help newspapers and magazines collect revenue from online readers, has been sold to Chicago-based printing firm RR Donnelley for an undisclosed sum. Journalism Online was launched in April 2009 by three veteran US...
Mar 29, 2011 | Uncategorized
Amazon.com has unveiled an online service that would enable its customers to securely store and access music through their smartphones and computers. Amazon said the new service would allow customers to play music on any Android, Windows and Apple devices. The company...
Mar 29, 2011 | Uncategorized
EBay plans to buy e-commerce service provider GSI Commerce for $2.4bn (£1.2bn) to build up its online marketplaces as it ramps up its battle with Amazon.com. The move sees the online marketplace attempt to win more business from large store chains, an area of business...
Mar 28, 2011 | Uncategorized
The legal wrangling over brand name purchases on Google AdWords rages on, with InterFlora embroiled in a legal battle with Marks & Spencer. But who is in the right, and what precedents will the eventual court ruling set for future search campaigns? 28/03/2011 The...
Mar 28, 2011 | Uncategorized
The global smartphone market will double in size by 2016 to hit shipments of 653 million, with Android taking over from iPhone as the dominant operating system, according to a new report. Independent telecoms analyst Ovum predicts that Android will drive the growth...
Mar 28, 2011 | Uncategorized
Advertising giant WPP has said it is likely to switch its headquarters from Dublin back to the UK after UK chancellor George Osborne slashed corporation tax in last week’s budget. WPP boss Sir Martin Sorrell revealed that the announcement of a greater than expected...
Mar 25, 2011 | Uncategorized
BT and TalkTalk have launched a legal challenge against new legislation designed to tackle illegal internet filesharing and protect intellectual property rights online. If the court finds in their favour, the act would no longer be enforceable. Here’s why… 25/03/2011...
Mar 25, 2011 | Uncategorized
The digital sector continues to boost UK advertising growth, with online ad spend growing 10.9% last year, according to new data. The findings, from the Advertising Association/WARC Expenditure Report, indicates that overall ad expenditure grew by 6.9% in 2010 to...
Mar 25, 2011 | Uncategorized
The BBC and other UK broadcasters have hired Lord Alan Sugar to attempt to save the embattled YouView internet-connected set top box venture. The business entrepreneur and star of TVs ‘The Apprentice’ was brought on board two weeks ago with a mandate to “cure or kill”...
Mar 24, 2011 | Uncategorized
SMEs and large enterprises in the technology sector could benefit from the Budget unveiled by chancellor George Osborne yesterday, as he seeks to foster growth in the UK economy. The government underlined its commitment to keep large enterprises in the UK by...
Mar 24, 2011 | Uncategorized
The web has a long sense of memory, but after the European Commission weighed in to tell social media platforms that people should have a ‘right to be forgotten’ that might be about to change. Facebook have announced they’re trying to ‘find mechanisms to help in...
Mar 24, 2011 | Uncategorized
Regulators are flexing their muscles as concern grows about the dominance of the global digital media players. The latest announcement is from the US where a judge ruled this week to block the $125m settlement Google had made with publishers to digitise millions of...
