What does 2011 hold for mobile marketing? Mobile app store Getjar lists the top trends to look out for, including app store mergers, the rise of open source and the death of the URL.

Skype has updated its iPhone application to include video calling to mobile users over both 3G and WiFi networks.

Online retailer Amazon is reportedly set to make an offer for Lovefilm in a deal that could value the movie rental site at around £200m.

Facebook has raised $500m from Goldman Sachs and Russian investment firm Digital Sky Technologies, in a deal that values the social networking company at $50bn, according to reports.

In the last year the EU has introduced new cookie legislation set to be implemented by the UK government by May 2011. Article 5(3) of the Privacy and Electronic Communications Directive states that consent must be given before companies are allowed to place cookies on a web user’s computer or retrieve cookie information already stored … [Read more…]

Google has approached a number of publishing houses to for producing a digital news stand, according to a news report.

Video can offer online retailers the chance to let consumers explore products in more detail, as they could in–store. Rob Tarrant, Managing Director, Brandbank, offers a guide to getting the most out of video when selling online.

The good, the bad and the quirky… 2010 was a landmark year for digital, with iPads, Old Spice, Angry Birds, Chatroulette and Wikileaks becoming buzzwords, while standout company Facebook went ‘Places’, got its own movie and found its CEO becoming Time magazine’s Person of the Year. Netimperative looks back over the past 12 months to … [Read more…]

Google has released its annual Zeitgeist report into the UK’s search habits online browsing habits, listing the terms most commonly searched on its site this year.

YouTube has looked back on the year to launch a video of its most watched clips of 2010, including Old Spice, annoying oranges and bed intruders.