Cable giant Virgin Media has launched its new broadband internet based “next-generation entertainment platform” and Set Top Box (STB), which uses Video-on-Demand (VoD) technology from TiVo.
The Daily Telegraph is considering going behind a paywall, just months after The Times began charging readers £1 a day for online access. Steve Elsham, head of media at business analytics company SAS looks at how newspapers can make the paywall pay.
Yammer has received $25m in third-round funding, as the US-based business-based social network looks to expand to Europe and Australia.
The WikiLeaks website yesterday said that it was under a forceful internet-based attack with the site inaccessible to users in U.S. and Europe.
The WikiLeaks website yesterday said that it was under a forceful internet-based attack with the site inaccessible to users in U.S. and Europe.
For the US holiday season-to-date, $13.55 billion has been spent online, marking a 13% increase on the same period last year, according to new data.
Women’s lifestyle site iVillage is making its tenth anniversary with the launch of a redesigned site, featuring enhanced user profiles, a new celebrity blogger line up, and premium video on demand content through a deal signed with Web TV.
Myspace has launched a new mobile site and iPhone application, as the social network looks to gain lost ground on market leader Facebook and promote its music-sharing tools.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer has this week announced a ‘brick-by-brick’ dismantling of the barriers holding back British growth, promising a so-called ‘patent box’, a new 10p rate of Corporation Tax to be levied on profits from new products developed and generated in Britain. GlaxoSmithKline followed the news by announcing a subsequent £500m investment in … [Read more…]
Google is set to launch its ‘Google Editions’ electronic book store early next year in the UK, taking on the likes of Amazon and Apple in the growing online publishing market, according to a news report.