Following this week’s episode of The Apprentice and the conversations taking place last night between the UK’s mobile and tech community, Paloma Vivanco-Coutts, mobile marketing manager at Velti and 2010 Apprentice contestant, offers her guide on how to make your app stand out in a highly competitive market.
Photo-sharing tool Twitpic now has the right to sell images posted by their users, prompting outrage from some of its members.
Stock market analysts marked down Yahoo this week on news that the strategy for China was unclear. Shares fell 7% in a day when the portal stated it was “engaged in ongoing discussions” about the future of its stake in Alibaba. This came after the Chinese ecommerce business sold control of its Alipay payment platform … [Read more…]
App store GetJar has bought Infrinity, a technology company that assists publishers in improving of customer lifecycle management, including acquisition, monetization and retention.
Crossed the tipping point and from Singapore to South London, the niche business network is firmly embedded in the mainstream, growing at a rate similar to Facebook a few years back. What does it mean for you?
Facebook may have accidentally exposed personal user data to advertisers and other third parties for several years, according to new research.
Lastminute.com co-founder Martha Lane Fox has launched the next phase of the Government-backed ‘Race Online Camapign’ with low price recycled PC products launched nationally today with prices starting from £92.
YouTube’s founders Steve Chen and Chad Hurley are making plans again. Last week’s purchase of pioneering social bookmark tool Delicious has been followed by a social intelligence tool, Tap11.com. It’s all through their holding company Avos, but given the track record, there’s a lot we should be expecting from Chen and Hurley. Tap11 looks set … [Read more…]
With social media becoming the norm, how valuable are these new social connections to advertisers? Rupert Staines, managing director of RadiumOne, discusses how the internet has evolved to become a social platform in its own right and has changed the face of online advertising.
How often do you wade through the regulatory filings of dotcoms? Not the most exciting of digital papers, but a tenacious researcher would have spotted one interesting item in Google’s recent footnotes – a $500m fund to settle the probe from US Department of Justice investigation into its ad practices. An accounting trick to reduce … [Read more…]