Opera ties with InMobi to bring payments to browser
Browser maker Opera Software has partnered partnership with InMobi to bring its SmartPay mobile payment platform to Opera’s more than 160 million mobile browser users worldwide.
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New social network connects people via birthdays
A new social networking website, WobyCafe, has launched, connecting those who share the same birthday wherever they are in the world.
RadiumOne Labs debuts media sharing app for social networks and mobiles
RadiumOne Labs has launched its newest app Via.Me, letting uses create and share pictures, videos, audio notes, and content across multiple social networks.
Facebook Timeline profiles for brands: Manchester United and Burberry chart history on social network
Facebook has rolled out its new look ‘Timeline’ profiles to brands, with Manchester United, Red Bull, Dove and Burberry signing up as the initial partners.
Facebook puts ads on mobiles for first time with ‘Premium’ service
Facebook is letting companies place ads on its mobile version for the first time, and to advertise on the log out screen, flowing the launch of its new ‘Premium’ service.
Mobile ‘accounts for 5% of online UK sales’
The popularity of shopping through mobile devices is continuing to grow at remarkable speed, with sales through mobile devices penetrating the 5% barrier of total e-retail sales for the first time, according to new research.
Google privacy policy goes live… despite EU warning
Google has begun to implement its single merged privacy policy for all of its services despite a warning letter from the EU.
Right to reply: Twitter’s archived Tweets more useful to brands than sponsored apps?
Twitter plans to make it more difficult for users to avoid advertisements on mobile. According to global digital marketing agency, Fortune Cookie, the news is unsurprising and detracts from more interesting and important developments at Twitter.
Leap year bug crashes UK Govt. cloud service
Microsoft’s Azure cloud service went down this week, taking out the UK government’s CloudStore and disrupting many businesses in the process. The failure “appears” to have been triggered by extra day in the leap year, according to Microsoft.
Social network users ramp up reputations: Women ‘most likely to unfriend’ on Facebook
Women and young adults are outpacing other demographics in unfriending on Facebook, as social networkers get more savvy in managing their reputation online, according to new research.