Facebook has announced that it is to open an engineering office in London, and has begun initial recruitment for 22 engineers. The new site will be Facebook’s first engineering office outside of the US – currently Facebook has locations in New York, Seattle and at its Menlo Park HQ.
With the Olympics less than a week away, which sponsors have made the best use of social media? This infographic from Gorkana shows that Coca-Cola has generated the greatest share of voice ahead of the games.
Subscriptions to Microsoft’s Xbox Live online gaming service have risen 15% over the last year. The figure follows Microsoft’s revelation in February that total membership numbers had reached over 40m members.
Twitter’s chief executive Dick Costolo has confirmed to the New York Times that the company is working on a tool that will allow users to export and download their entire archive of tweets.
Apple’s operating system iOS is the most effective platform for driving mobile ad impressions, according to new data. The study forms part of Opera Software’s first State of Mobile Advertising report, highlighting key data and trends in mobile advertising worldwide.
A botnet called “Grum”, which was responsible for over 18% of all the world’s spam email, has officially been shut down, according to a new report. Online security firm FireEye worked with local internet service providers and spam-tracking service SpamHaus, they were able to locate the “Grum”-net command and control servers in Panama, Russia, and … [Read more…]
A botnet called “Grum”, which was responsible for over 18% of all the world’s spam email, has officially been shut down, according to a new report. Online security firm FireEye worked with local internet service providers and spam-tracking service SpamHaus, they were able to locate the “Grum”-net command and control servers in Panama, Russia, and … [Read more…]
Amazon is set to open a new London-based site for some of its design and development teams. The centre, based near London’s “Silicon Roundabout” will house hundreds of staff including software development engineers, graphic designers and teams from both Pushbutton and Lovefilm.
A new study from comScore has found that Chile ranked as the most engaged online video market in Latin America with viewers watching an average of 176 videos per viewer during May 2012, an increase of 60% from the previous year. “Online video consumption in Chile has grown immensely in the past year, fuelled by … [Read more…]
Jimmy Carr, Father’s Day and 50 Shades of Grey are among fastest moving search terms in the UK in June, according to new data.