Dec 7, 2010 | Uncategorized
Only 23 percent of UK’s top 57 fashion retailers have a transactional mobile site or application, according to new research. Integrated mobile and digital communications business, Mobile Interactive Group (MIG) today unveiled its Christmas Sock Report. The research...
Dec 6, 2010 | Uncategorized
AOL is actively exploring a breakup involving a complicated series of transactions that may lead to a merger with Yahoo, according to a news report. AOL is actively exploring a breakup involving a complicated series of transactions that may lead to a merger with...
Dec 6, 2010 | Uncategorized
Shopping deal webiste Groupon has rejected a $6bn bid from Google, saying it is planning a possible public offering instead. The sale was expected to fetch up to $6 billion in a deal which had set tongues wagging on Wall Street about whether such a valuation...
Dec 6, 2010 | Uncategorized
Google’s browser Chrome is taking an increasing share of global Web usage, while Microsoft’s market leader Internet Explorer is in decline, according to new figures. Chrome usage rose from 8.5 percent of worldwide Web usage in October to 9.3 percent in November,...
Dec 6, 2010 | Uncategorized
The BBC is working on a version of its iPlayer to be launched in the US, in the form of a paid-for iPad application, according to a new report. The FT.com reports that the ‘Global iPlayer’, which is in pilot form until it passes scrutiny by the BBC Trust,...
Dec 6, 2010 | Uncategorized
Google plans to crack down on pirated content, pledging to remove material which infringes copyright from its main search service “within 24 hours”. In what could prove a very big blow to the activities of internet pirates, Google has announced a number of new...
Dec 6, 2010 | Uncategorized
Amazon has invested $175m (£112m) in Living Social, a rival to popular deals site Groupon. Living Social plans to use the cash injection to strengthen its positioning in more locations. At present it has 10 million subscribers in the UK, Ireland, US, Canada and...
Dec 6, 2010 | Uncategorized
Today (Monday 6th December) is set to be the busiest online shopping day of 2010 in the lead-up to Christmas, as sales and traffic levels have begun to gather momentum towards Mega Monday, according to new forecasts from key players in the UK ecommerce sector. Sales...
Dec 6, 2010 | Uncategorized
The majority (74%) of consumers are always or sometimes actively looking for adverts related to entertainment brands and products online, from home cinema and audio equipment, to video games and gadgets, according to new research. The report, from eBay Advertising...
Dec 3, 2010 | Uncategorized
Japan’s anti-monopoly watchdog has approved a tie-up between Yahoo Japan and Google but warned it will keep checking for possible violations. The commission said Thursday it didn’t see any problems as long as the two companies continued to be separate and...
Dec 3, 2010 | Uncategorized
US political heavyweights have forced Amazon to remove controversial whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks from its server. According to The Guardian, the online retail giant was contacted by the office of Joe Lieberman, the chairman of the Senate committee on homeland...
Dec 3, 2010 | Uncategorized
The UK’s major toy retailers must upgrade their online offering if they are to beat competitors to the Christmas rush, according to the 2010 Toy Retail Report compiled by eCommerce display experts Brandbank. Amazon, Early Learning Centre and Argos are the three top...
Dec 3, 2010 | Uncategorized
UK shoppers buy more products online and spend more money than internet users in any other European country, according to new research. The study, from communications regulator Ofcom said that UK consumers spent an average of £1,031 between June and November last year...
Dec 3, 2010 | Uncategorized
The Association of Online Publishers (AOP) unveils its first research study “The New Rules of Engagement”. The new research examines advertising engagement: the relationship between consumer engagement with website content and particularly their reaction to...
Dec 2, 2010 | Uncategorized
News Corporation is reportedly willing to sell Myspace, the former social media market leader it bought back in 2005. MySpace COO Chase Carey told Reuters that the company is open to a sale, partnership, or some other option. “There are opportunities here to do 20...
Dec 2, 2010 | Uncategorized
Cable giant Virgin Media has launched its new broadband internet based “next-generation entertainment platform” and Set Top Box (STB), which uses Video-on-Demand (VoD) technology from TiVo. The service will roll-out from mid-December 2010 and cost from...
Dec 2, 2010 | Uncategorized
Yammer has received $25m in third-round funding, as the US-based business-based social network looks to expand to Europe and Australia. The latest round of funding, led by US Venture Partners, brings the San Francisco company’s total financing to $40 million....
Dec 2, 2010 | Uncategorized
For the US holiday season-to-date, $13.55 billion has been spent online, marking a 13% increase on the same period last year, according to new data. ComScore reports that this week’s ‘Cyber Monday’ reached $1.028 billion in online spending, up 16 percent versus year...
Dec 2, 2010 | Uncategorized
Myspace has launched a new mobile site and iPhone application, as the social network looks to gain lost ground on market leader Facebook and promote its music-sharing tools. The new Myspace site, which officially re-launched at the end of October 2010, is now...
Dec 1, 2010 | Uncategorized
Google is set to launch its ‘Google Editions’ electronic book store early next year in the UK, taking on the likes of Amazon and Apple in the growing online publishing market, according to a news report. Bloomberg cites a person familiar with the company’s plans,...
