Long registration forms and overly intrusive questions are major turn offs for customers when looking for products and services online. So why are so many companies still gathering reams of customer data and then never using it? Chris Ford, Business Development Director at business services company, Grass Roots shares some experiences of “Fear, surprise and … [Read more…]
Google has bought Quickoffice, an office suite for phones and other mobile devices. The move comes a day after the Internet giant confirmed its long-rumoured acquisition of Meebo.
Facebook has had a turbulent month, seeing its stock value plunge by a quarter since its IPO in May. But how can the social network market leader turn around its fortunes? This infographic from Infographic Labs looks at the key stats behind the company as it faces up to more scrutiny as a public company.
Password information for 6.5m members of business social network LinkedIn have been leaked, according to a news report.
This week saw thousands of Internet service providers and websites around the world permanently enable IPv6 for their products and services for the World IPv6 Launch, organised by the Internet Society. Mike Sapien, enterprise telecoms analyst at Ovum considers why more customers are now starting to realise the importance of addressing support for IPv6.
Analytics technology provider Teradata has bought Cloud digital marketing firm eCircle for an undisclosed sum.
Nasdaq is reportedly set to compensate investor losses following computer glitches that tarnished trading on the first day of Facebook’s $US16 billion IPO, according to a news report.
Salesforce.com has made a $800m bid for Buddy Media, in amove that could create the first enterprise level platform to have a fully integrated social customer relationship management (sCRM) module.
Facebook has launched a new ‘micro-advertising’ feature on its social network, allowing fan-page owners to create more prominent status updates for one off costs starting at $5.
Financial information website MoneySuperMarket has been sold for £87m, with its high-profile founder Martin Lewis pledging to give a portion of his payout from the deal to charity.