Microsoft accepts bitcoin payments on Xbox and phones
Microsoft has started accepting payments made using bitcoins to add funds to Microsoft accounts that can then be spent on a variety of Microsoft services.
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China now rivalling US dominance of digital media
China accounts for two of the six companies with the highest online media revenues and four of the 10 fastest-growing, according to the latest Digital Media Index from global research and advisory firm Strategy Analytics which analyses revenue trends across 44 public digital media companies.
Google Paid Listings shopping ads ‘doubled during Thanksgiving’
Retail paid search advertisers in the U.S. nearly doubled daily spend on Google Product Listing Ads (PLAs) across the week of Thanksgiving this year compared with 2013.
Right to reply: Driverless car hacking fears shouldn’t stall development
In light of the news that hackers might target driverless cars to cause traffic chaos Wil Rockall, director in KPMG’s cyber security practice argues that the benefits of automated transport far outweigh the risks.
Gratterpalm buys Underwired agency to boost CRM tools
Leeds-based creative communications agency Gratterpalm, has acquired London based Underwired, the UK’s leading specialist CRM and Multichannel consultancy.
eBay revamps iPad app to cater for multi-screen shoppers
eBay has updated its iPad app following news that 59% of its users are multi-screen shoppers.
Top 10 social trends in 2014: Twitter troubles, mobile upstarts and the ‘dark social’ debacle
With chat apps blurring the lines between social media and mobile, the digital marketing landscape just got a whole lot more complicated. With Instagram now bigger than Twitter, China’s giants going international and still many links being shared on untrackable channels like email, marketers need to think beyond Facebook if they want to engage their … [Read more…]
Top tweets of 2014: World Cup, Ferguson Riots and Ukraine dominated social conversations
Tweets about the World Cup, US riots and the Ukraine crisis preoccupied UK Twitter users in 2014.
Yahoo mobile ad revenues forecast to overtake Twitter next year
Yahoo’s US mobile ad revenues are predicted to overtake Twitter next year to become the third largest in the country, according to a new report.
Google axes Spanish news amid government clampdown
Google is shutting down its Google News service in Spain ahead of the introduction of a new intellectual property law is introduced.