Feb 24, 2011 | Uncategorized
UK online retailers enjoyed a bumper month in January, with many pure player’ enjoying most of the spoils. In this article, a number of top industry figures give their views on how the UK online retail sector is doing. 24/02/2011 Jonathon Brown, Head of Online...
Feb 24, 2011 | Uncategorized
Amazon has launched its streaming video service for paying Amazon Prime customers in the US. The ‘Amazon Prime Instant Video’ service has a catalogue of more than 5,000 commercial-free streaming movies and TV shows. The service is a free add-on for subscribers to...
Feb 23, 2011 | Uncategorized
Music consumed on mobile handsets will generate $5.5 billion annually in 2015, a rise of $3.1 billion from 2010, but piracy will still hamper its growth, according to a new report. The report finds that mobile music is becoming an increasingly important part of the...
Feb 23, 2011 | Uncategorized
The latest figures from the IMRG Capgemini e-Retail Sales Index reveal that shoppers in the UK spent a total of £5.1 billion online during January, equivalent to £83 per person; an impressive 21% more than the same time last year. With limited disposable income...
Feb 23, 2011 | Uncategorized
A London Met graduate who started his Twitter business two years ago whilst studying for his MBA has now sold it for an estimated $10-15 million. Plixi is the brainchild of former London Met Business School (LMBS) student Sean Callahan. Sean envisioned a way users of...
Feb 22, 2011 | Uncategorized
Spotify has raised $100m (£61.7m) in a new investment round that values the music streaming service at $1bn. Yuri Milner, the Russian technology investor who has already bought stakes in Facebook, Groupon and Zynga, is reportedly leading the $100m financing via his...
Feb 22, 2011 | Uncategorized
Large portions of the western and southern US population have no access to wired or fixed broadband, according to new data. The findings, from a new national broadband map released by two US agencies, shows that between 5 percent and 10 percent of the US population...
Feb 22, 2011 | Uncategorized
Facebook is improving the search tools on its social network to help users more easily locate the results they are seeking. The new search design eliminates the tabs format, and lets users interact via the Facebook Page directly. The tool now highlights news based on...
Feb 21, 2011 | Uncategorized
Cyber crime costs the UK economy £27bn a year, the government has said. Businesses are the hardest hit losing £21 billion to hackers, while UK citizens lost out to the tune of £3.1 billion and the government was £2.2 billion out of pocket. The total cost of cyber...
Feb 18, 2011 | Uncategorized
Google has updated its search results, including more information related to a users’ social connections, including Twitter and Facebook, in its search results. The new changes will apply to anyone who searches when logged into their Google account, and will...
Feb 18, 2011 | Uncategorized
Google has launched One Pass, a one-stop destination where users can pay for publications online, taking a 10% commission fee from all transactions. One Pass will work on tablets and smartphones, as well as Google-related websites. The service will launch initially in...
Feb 18, 2011 | Uncategorized
eBay, Apple, Google, Blackberry and Amazon are the top perfoming brands in terms of social media buzz, according to a new study. The world’s most social brands have been revealed in a new ‘Social Brands Index’ that charts the performance of the top 50 brands on social...
Feb 18, 2011 | Uncategorized
Corporate policies and lack of understanding are stifling recruiters’ use of social media such as Facebook and LinkedIn to acquire new talent, despite the fact that two thirds of employers say they want to hire more people in the coming year, according to a new...
Feb 17, 2011 | Uncategorized
The UK online travel sector has enjoyed a strong few months, with Thomas Cook and First Choice leading the way, according to the latest ‘Hot Shops’ list from the IMRG and Hitwise.Travel had a very strong quarter with the five fastest moving brands all coming from the...
Feb 17, 2011 | Uncategorized
The more Facebook ‘friends’ you have, the more likely you are to feel stressed out by the social networking site, according to a new study by Scottish researchers. Psychologists from Edinburgh Napier University quizzed around 200 students on their use of the...
Feb 17, 2011 | Uncategorized
Everything Everywhere, the communications brand formed out of the merger between T-Mobile and Orange, has launched a multi-million pound advertising campaign that will appear on TV, outdoor, in print and online. The campaign, led by Saatchi & Saatchi working in...
Feb 16, 2011 | Uncategorized
Nokia has unveiled the first concept designs of its Windows 7 Mobile phones, following its tie-up with Microsoft. The mobile giant used the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona to showcase two Windows Phone 7 concept devices that look slim and sleek, but the company did...
Feb 16, 2011 | Uncategorized
Morrisons has bought baby goods website Kiddicare for £70m, marking the supermarket chain’s first move in building an online non-food business. Morrisons said it would use Kiddicare’s technology platform to develop its own non-food business, with the first...
Feb 16, 2011 | Uncategorized
Open app store GetJar has raised $25 million in Series C funding from Tiger Global Management. Accel Partners, which provided its series A and B rounds, will also participate in the series C funding. The company said the extra money will be applied to continued...
Feb 16, 2011 | Uncategorized
This week, in Steve Ballmer’s keynote address at Mobile World Congress 2011, Microsoft announced a variety of new features coming to its Windows Phone 7 smartphone operating system. 16/02/2011 In addition, Nokia’s first Windows Phone will arrive by the end of...
