Following the controversy that has erupted over Facebook automatically tagging people in photos online, leading law firm Thomas Eggar looks at the bigger issue of how must trust we put in large companies with our data.
The Guardian has been named most user-friendly news provider, surpassing other popular UK news providers including The Sun, Daily Mail and Daily Telegraph, according to a new study.
50% of Smartphone owners have now completed some sort of purchase on their mobile, increasing by 20% over just nine short months, with 11% of Smartphone shoppers now using the device to make a purchase on a weekly basis, according to a new study.
Photo-sharing tool Twitpic now has the right to sell images posted by their users, prompting outrage from some of its members.
DraftFCB has bought London-based Blue Barracuda, as part of agency’s new ‘international mergers and acquisitions programme’.
Txtlocal have launched a new product that enables users to build and execute websites specifically built for the small screens of mobile phones. The ‘Mobile Web’ product can be used alongside conventional mobile messaging, and for the first time ever Txtlocal are offering it to customers to build themselves at no cost.
Consumers are being warned to think twice before enabling Microsoft’s anti-tracking feature in Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) to their browsers after a potential flaw in the technology was discovered by Which? Computing.
Hot at its heels of an algorithm update to combat duplicate content last month, Google has followed up with “Panda”, another algorithm change that hits purveyors of “low quality content.” To avoid being slammed with little or no warning, search marketing firm Greenlight is urging businesses to take the necessary steps now to ensure their … [Read more…]
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.
Hitting that #1 natural result spot in Google for a high traffic, nicely converting search term is seen as the path to Website success. Sadly, there can only be one number one, while there is always an increasing amount of competitor websites. Donal Langen, SEO Consultant at Stream:20, offers 20 ways to get that lucrative … [Read more…]