UK high-street stores risk squandering consumer brand loyalty this Christmas through over reliance on money-off vouchers and heavy discounts, according to the 2010 Maximiles Loyalty Report.

Email marketing fim Responsys is partnering with Windows Live Hotmail from Microsoft to deliver the new experiences and benefits of Active Views email messages to consumers. The new platform technology addresses security concerns by allowing senders to run code securely in their email messages.

Twitter has raised $200m in a funding round that valued the micro-blogging site at $3.7bn, up sharply from the estimated $1bn last year.

Facebook has enhanced its face detection feature, with a new “tag suggestions” tool, helping users automatically tag friends across a series of photos.

Facebook has enhanced its face detection feature, with a new “tag suggestions” tool, helping users automatically tag friends across a series of photos.

Facebook has produced a map that displays friend connections around the world, with the UK and US among the most connected on the social network.

Simon Robinson, marketing and alliances director, Responsys, explains why priority inboxes are good news for marketing.

Video sharing site YouTube is in talks to buy US web video producer Next New Networks, according to US reports.

There’s a sea change taking place online, and it’s being driven by questions about when, why and how we make the decisions we do. It’s a given that information is abundant, but the volume and quality are such that it’s sometimes hard to make an informed judgement about the right choice. Michael Steckler, UK Managing … [Read more…]

Spotify has listed its most-played tracks and albums during 2010 amongst UK listeners.