Groupon founder fired after shares plummet
Groupon has ousted its founder and CEO Andrew Mason, after the embattled daily deals site posted another quarterly loss, prompting a 24% slide in its share price on Thursday.
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BSkyB buys O2’s broadband services for £180m
BSkyB is to buy O2’s home telephony services from Telefonica, becoming the second biggest broadband provider in the UK in the process.
Top 20 most visible paid search advertisers (and SEO brands) on Google UK
Amazon dominates the paid search ads on Google UK, by far more visible in results pages than its closest rivals Ask and Booking.com, according to new research.
The rise of online learning: Apple’s iTunes U hits 1 billion downloads
Apple has announced that its iTunes U online learning courses have reached the 1 billion download milestone 6 years after launch.
2 in 5 web users ‘unaware that Google Adwords are adverts’
Up to 40% of web users are unaware that the Google Ads above their search results are paid-for advertisements, according to new research.
Tablet ownership ‘to quadruple by 2017’- Forrester
Tablet ownership in Western Europe is set to quadruple in the next five years as the percentage of online consumers to own a tablet increases from 14% in 2012 to 55% in 2017, according to new research.
Global social shopping trends: Third of Brits ‘recommend products via social media’
UK confidence in social shopping is up 11%, with a third of Brits confessing they’ve recommended a product on social media, according to a new study.
Guest comment: ‘The New Complexity’- The rise of connected devices
This year at MWC we are seeing the market being shaken up with the emergence of new connected and converged devices, giving rise to a shift that Olof Schybergson, CEO of service design consultancy, Fjord calls ‘the new complexity.’
SEO mystery: Interflora vanishes from Google search after Valentine's promotion
Interflora has disappeared from the front page of Google’s natural search results, fuelling speculation that the florist has breached the search engine’s guidelines.
SEO mystery: Interflora vanishes from Google search after Valentine’s promotion
Interflora has disappeared from the front page of Google’s natural search results, fuelling speculation that the florist has breached the search engine’s guidelines.