Google promotes ‘offers’ on home page for first time
Google has promoted a daily deals offer on its US home page for the first time, as the Internet giant gets serious about shopping.
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Brits ‘connected to web 10 hours a day’
The average Brit spends ten hours a day being connected to the Internet, according to a new survey.
Google axes 10 products to refocus on Google+
Google is to discontinue ten of its services as the internet giant looks to focus on existing money-makers and new products such as Google+.
Most Brits ‘don’t know what a QR code is’
Just over a third (36%) of Brits know what QR Codes are, and only 11% have actually used them, according to a new survey.
Boost for 3G mobile web: Virgin strikes £100m deal with Everything Everywhere and Three
Virgin Media Business has struck a £100m deal with mobile networks Everything Everywhere and Three, to boost 3G-based Internet access for all three customer bases in the UK.
Burberry increases digital marketing spend to 60%
Luxury fashion brand Burberry has increased its spending on digital marketing to 60% of its total marketing budget, three times the amount spent by the average company.
Saving Lady Gaga: 48 hours to stop fans from crashing French site
Managed hosting provider NetBenefit stepped in at 48 hours’ notice to host the ladaygaga.fr site, to stop to website from crashing as fans flocked to take part iin an online competition.
TripAdvisor faces ASA probe over ‘false reviews’ claim
The Advertising Standards Authority is to investigate claims that some reviews on travel site TripAdvisor are fake and defamatory.
Brits ‘use Facebook Places 5 times more than Foursquare’
The top UK attractions, such as the O2, Wembley Stadium and Hyde Park, attracted five times more online ‘check-ins’ from Facebook Places that Foursquare, according to a new study.
Right to reply: Is it a tablet? Is it a smartphone? No, it’s Samsung’s new Note device
Samsung has launched its latest mobile device, the Galaxy Note…but journalists can’t decide what it is. Daniel Ashdown, analyst at Juniper research, takes a closer look…