United Biscuit’s cake and biscuit brand McVities has launched a ‘Bring Out The Cake’ campaign, designed to get Facebook fans sharing coupons to promote the brand’s cake range.

Google Nexus 7 goes on sale across a number of territories today including the UK, as the firm looks to rival Apple’s iPad in the growing tablet market.

Companies in the Fortune Global 100 were mentioned a total of 10,400,132 times online during a month-long period, with the majority of these mentions appearing on Twitter, according to a new report. The Burson-Marsteller Global Social Media Check-up 2012 examined the Fortune Global 100’s use of popular social networking platforms including: Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and, … [Read more…]

TiVo has bought ad analytics company TRA for $20m, as the TV-on-demand service looks to boost its targeting abilities. TRA’s Web-based platform analyses real time tuning data combined with household purchase behaviour.

UK advertisers are reacting to consumers’ increasing mobile usage, by shifting search advertising budget towards tablet devices, according to new data. The report, Marin Software’s Online Advertising – Q2 2012 Report, shows advertisers were rewarded for embracing the shift with mobile devices accounting for a 20% share of clicks against a 13% share of spend … [Read more…]

Software maker Autodesk has bought social-video service Socialcam for about $60 million to expand in consumer markets. Socialcam offers a smartphone application and Web-based service that lets users capture, edit and share videos.

Richard Gibson, Director of Client Services at Return Path looks at why email deliverability has hit an all time low and what marketers can do to get more emails into the inbox and boost ROI.

Supermarket giant Asda has teamed u[p with Lbi to launch Asda Money, the new online home for Asda financial products and services.

Yahoo has appointed Google executive Marissa Mayer as its chief executive, becoming the firm’s third boss in a year.

Sky has launched Now TV, its pay -as-you-go online TV service Now TV, offering movies from 99p or £15 for a month’s subscription.