$4.4bn is what the online film industry will be worth within five years. Online movie audience data has been trending upwards steeply and now Global Industry Analysts are forecasting a boom in paid subscriptions and paid downloads. Here’s why…
Facebook has paid $1 billion to acquire Instagram. Since its launch in October 2010 on the Apple AppStore, Instagram has proven highly addictive, especially to younger demographics, growing to upwards of 30 million users, and over a billion photos uploaded. Mark Little, principal analyst at Ovum considers why Facebook would want to pay so much … [Read more…]
AOL is to sell more than 800 technology patents and related applications to Microsoft for about $1.06bn, as the embattled online giant looks to return cash to investors.
Apple is set to become the world’s first 41 trillion company by 2014, according to Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster, boosted by sales of iPhones, iPads and Mac computers.
Thorntons has launched an outdoor campaign letting smartphone users scan a QR code and buy an Easter egg for 1p.
This year’s crop of April’s fools jokes are among some of the strangest yet, including Google maps going low-fi with an 8-bit version, a one inch notebook and Hungry Hippos going iPad compatible. We provide a round-up from some of the best from yesterday’s hoaxes…
Research in Motion, the maker of Blackberry smartphones, has announced a new focus on business customers after it suffered a further $125m loss.
Google is planning to sell branded tablets directly to consumers through an online store, as it tries to wrestle away market share from the Apple iPad.
Mark Zuckerberg has been spotted in Shanghai this week, sparking rumours that Facebook could be eyeing a return to the lucrative Chinese market after being blocked three years ago.
Google has launched a new tool that lets users see the internet giant’s records of where they have been and what they searched for.