Gowalla has shut down, three months after being bought by Facebook, which will integrate the firm’s staff and technology into its own location-based tools.

Getting visitors to a website is only half the battle- converting their visit into a purchase or action is another challenge entirely. John Ryder, client services director, Silverbean, lists the most common website conversion mistakes made by B2B websites.

The popular photography app Instagram is set for launch on Android ‘very soon’ according to one of its founders.

Maruti Suzuki Ritz has become the most popular brand in India by clocking a record fan base of over 1 million (1,018,000+ members) on popular social networking site Facebook. Maruti Suzuki Ritz made its debut on Social media in August 2010.

IPC Media has renewed its deal with advertising technology company Collective, giving Collective exclusive representation rights to all IPC video channels.

Amongst other recent Olympic venues, London ranks 4th globally in terms of its digital infrastructure (transport, buildings and IT), according to a new study.

Social media ads are generating a 55% greater lift in ad recall than non-social ads on average, according to a new study from Nielsen.

Quick Response (QR) codes are growing in popularity, but they are appearing in increasingly bizarre and inappropriate places, as this new blog shows.

Rovio has teamed up with Nasa to launch its latest Angry Birds title, Space, which aims to add a new educational twist to the hugely popular game.

There has been a lot of discussion around online privacy recently, with Google’s new privacy policy and Viviane Reding’s proposed “right to be forgotten” legislation. Ehud Furman, CEO and founder of Veribo, argues why the prospect of being fined 2% of turnover for privacy breaches will change the mind set of technology companies.