Launched by the UK Government last month, Mydata, gives consumers access to the data that businesses have on them, calculating that such access could help people make better-informed choices. Justin Schamotta at Choose.net wonders if businesses really are keen to share their data with others…
Last week’s episode of the BBC show The Apprentice saw the two teams pitched against each other to create the most popular mobile app in under 24 hours. In this article, Patrick Mork, GetJar’s CMO, looks at how The Apprentice teams could have driven higher global downloads of their app, and what it takes to … [Read more…]
The Guardian has been named most user-friendly news provider, surpassing other popular UK news providers including The Sun, Daily Mail and Daily Telegraph, according to a new study.
Online access rights are tightening again in China – at least that’s the experience of many people online behind the ‘Great Firewall of China’. Key tools such as VPN, alongside global media properties such as MSN seem to be targeted as part of a broad change in access rights in China. Big implications for multinationals … [Read more…]
Linking Mobile a UK-based global mobile affiliate network, has gone live with its first advertiser partners: Groupon, Peugeot and Ghost Telecom.
Google has launched its Chromebook laptop, built “for the web only”, as the internet giant looks to take on Microsoft and Apple in the operating system market.
Following this week’s episode of The Apprentice and the conversations taking place last night between the UK’s mobile and tech community, Paloma Vivanco-Coutts, mobile marketing manager at Velti and 2010 Apprentice contestant, offers her guide on how to make your app stand out in a highly competitive market.
App store GetJar has bought Infrinity, a technology company that assists publishers in improving of customer lifecycle management, including acquisition, monetization and retention.
JiWire has raised $20 million in Series C funding as the company expands it location-based mobile media across both apps and public wi-fi.
Apple has overtaken Google as the ‘world’s most valuable brand’, bringing an end to four years of dominance by the search giant, according to new research.