Brits have overtaken the Dutch as the biggest internet addicts in Europe, spending the most time online per person, according to new research.

Mobile is clearly growing as a commerce platform. But are retailers taking it seriously enough? Max Childs, senior marketing manager for EMEA at Adobe Scene7, looks at mobile stores in practice, and what will happen to m-commerce in the near future.

Teenagers would be more willing to give up watching TV than to stop using their mobiles or the internet, according to new research.

Social Networking accounted for one third of all time spent online in Malaysia in August 2011, ranking as the top online activity for the market, according to new research.

Global marketing giant WPP has taken a minority stake in Leading Smart Holdings, the British Virgin Islands-based parent company of Moment Systems, a digital advertising measurement firm in China.

Google has weighed in to the potential auction of rival Yahoo, allying with private equity players to explore a joint bid for the ailing internet giant, according to a news report.

Facebook has denied accusations that it is gradually building “shadow profiles” of non-users of the social networking site.

The world’s biggest internet TV and film streaming service, Netflix is to launch in the UK early next year.

Newspaper The Australian has launched its digital subscription service this week with a three month free trial offer for all readers, as owner News Corp continues its paid content digital strategy.

So you have 500 ‘likes’ on Facebook and Twitter is a-buzz with talk about your brand … but how many of those people have gone onto buy your product? And how can you tie all this insight into the metrics that really matter – revenue, site visits and so on? Simon Morris, Marketing Director at … [Read more…]