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…]
Shares of China’s largest social networking firm Renren have lost almost all the gains made since its US stock market debut last week, trading down 8%. The drop follows lingering accounting concerns and fears of further regulation and censorship from China’s government.
It’s a massive sum for a company that doesn’t turn a profit, but could internet phone company Skype finally get the step-change it needs? Microsoft’s dominance in Office could see Skype integrated into the operating systems of hundreds of millions of PCs, as well as the growing Windows Mobile platforms. This could be game changing, … [Read more…]
It’s a massive sum for a company that doesn’t turn a profit, but could internet phone company Skype finally get the step-change it needs? Microsoft’s dominance in Office could see Skype integrated into the operating systems of hundreds of millions of PCs, as well as the growing Windows Mobile platforms. This could be game changing, … [Read more…]
Ford takes the lead as the most searched for Automotive brand in the UK, accounting for just over 11% of all branded searches between January 2011 and March 2011, according to new research.
Business-based social network LinkedIn plans to sell stock at $32 to $35 per share in an initial public offering that would value the professional social-networking firm at more than $3bn, the company said in a government document.
JiWire has raised $20 million in Series C funding as the company expands it location-based mobile media across both apps and public wi-fi.
The countdown is underway to the launch of a major global play for music by the world’s largest online media property. At the I/O developer conference there was intensive talk of the long awaited Google music platform. More on what to expect as the testing goes mainstream…