UK online retail sales grow 9% in ‘wettest April since records began’
Online retail sales in the UK grew 9% in April as the country experienced the wettest April since records began.
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Social media platform BirdSong tracks Twitter impact
BirdSong, a new social media platform to measure the impact of brands’ Twitter use, has launched this week.
LinkedIn buys SlideShare for £74m
LinkedIn has bought online presentation tool SlideShare for £74m as the business-based social network looks to improve engagement and features on its site.
Just 1% of Internet users creating web content? Not anymore, says BBC
The age of the ‘lurker’ is over, according to a new BBC report which debunks the widely accepted ‘1% rule’ of the Internet, which asserts that just 1% of users create content and 10% engage with them, while the rest of the world sits back and watches.
Digital training: London college offers secondary school pupils digital qualifications
A new London School offering pupils as young as 14 with digital qualifications alongside standard GCSEs is due to open this September.
Britain’s Got Talent voting app goes live
ITV and FremantleMedia have launched two new ways for viewers to vote for their favourite Britain’s Got Talent contestants via their mobile phone.
Top email marketing tips: Getting the most from cross-and up-sell programmes
Email as a marketing tool is quite possibly the most powerful one in the box, and used properly can generate a substantial increase in business. Kara Trivunovic, vice president of agency services, StrongMail, offers a guide capitalising on cross and up-sell techniques in email marketing.
O2 serves up free Wi-Fi at Costa
O2 has partnered with Costa coffee shops to offer free wi-fi to its customers, as the mobile network operator looks to expand its broadband services.
Smartphone sales ‘to ship 1.7bn units in 2017- Android leads the way’
Smartphones will outperform the overall market for mobile phones, growing by 24.9% to reach 1.7 billion units by 2017, according to Ovum.
Connected TV: TV App Agency wins innovation award
TV App Agency has won an award for ‘Outstanding Technology Innovation’ at last week’s Connected TV Awards 2012 for its ‘develop once’ / ‘deploy to many’ cross platform TV app compiler.