Viacom has completed its £450m acquisition of Channel 5 from Northern & Shell Media Group, announcing the first programmes to be commissioned under the new deal.

The Apple Watch is the first new product line for the company since the iPad in 2010. Sam Clark, CEO of Conjure, a company that specialises in developing apps for emerging technology platforms—including wearables—looks at why brands need to consider making their existing apps for friendly towards smart watch users.

Apple has revealed its latest range of bigger smartphones and its much-anticipated smartwatch, along with a new mobile payments system that uses fingerprint ID for security.

Content with strong topic knowledge, more visual elements, bigger word counts and more relevant words (not just matches for the search term) are more likely to rank highly on Google…but being a brand also helps, according to new research.

More than half of Britain’s adult population engaged in social media do little to increase brand interest and create positive associations with brands online, according to new research which has identified the six types of social media user.

Global retail revenue from smart wearable devices will treble by 2016, before reaching $53.2 billion by 2019, according to a new report from Juniper Research.

Japanese internet giant Rakuten has bought Ebates, provider of the largest cash-back shopping web site in North America.

Digital ad firm Adknowledge has partnered with Realeyes, an emotion analytics platform that measures how people feel and react when they watch video content.

Programmatic advertising firm RadiumOne has hired Toby Swire, formerly Online & Mobile Manager at ITV, as Regional Sales Manager to run their regional sales operation in the UK.

Twitter has expanded into ecommerce a new ‘buy’ option that will appear alongside a brand’s tweet.