People are being sent fewer spam emails than at any time in the past 12 years, with less than half of all emails deemed junk, according to new research.

eBay and PayPal are today splitting their operations into two individual companies, having traded together since eBay bought PayPal in 2002.

After many attempts to break into ecommerce Facebook is testing another buy button- this time letting businesses turn their pages into e-commerce sites.

At the end of May 2015, India’s Food safety administration (FDA) ordered Nestlé India to recall its popular 2-minute Maggi noodles after tests showed that the product contained high levels of lead and MSG. Joanna Delaney, Digital Marketing Executive at Digital Strategy Consulting, looks at how the situation developed, and how Nestlé reacted and managed … [Read more…]

This chart from comScore looks at the uswer demographics of most major social networks in the US, with some surprising results…

From extra long shoehorns to an airplane seatbelt extender- Amazon’s ‘Prime Day’ didn’t exactly deliver the big discounts on big ticket items that many were hoping for. However, the hype for an event ‘bigger than Black Friday’ helped the online retailer enjoy an 80% rise in sales.

Google is relaunching its Map Maker tool, which lets users make edits to its Google Maps service, but will give its community of users more powers to moderate digital vandalism.

The Smash martians and BT’s ‘Ology’ ads are the most popular ads from the pre-internet age, according to a new survey.

Nearly two-thirds (63%) of Twitter and Facebook users in the US social are getting their news from these services, according to new research.

There has been an increase in the number of people abandoning their online shopping basket without completing their purchase, compared to the same 4 month period in 2014.