A 21-year-old traffic warden from Birmingham has launched a House of Commons-style debating chamber online, enabling ordinary citizens to voice their views on topical issues in parliamentary fashion.
Crossed the tipping point and from Singapore to South London, the niche business network is firmly embedded in the mainstream, growing at a rate similar to Facebook a few years back. What does it mean for you?
Facebook may have accidentally exposed personal user data to advertisers and other third parties for several years, according to new research.
YouTube’s founders Steve Chen and Chad Hurley are making plans again. Last week’s purchase of pioneering social bookmark tool Delicious has been followed by a social intelligence tool, Tap11.com. It’s all through their holding company Avos, but given the track record, there’s a lot we should be expecting from Chen and Hurley. Tap11 looks set … [Read more…]
With social media becoming the norm, how valuable are these new social connections to advertisers? Rupert Staines, managing director of RadiumOne, discusses how the internet has evolved to become a social platform in its own right and has changed the face of online advertising.
It’s a massive sum for a company that doesn’t turn a profit, but could internet phone company Skype finally get the step-change it needs? Microsoft’s dominance in Office could see Skype integrated into the operating systems of hundreds of millions of PCs, as well as the growing Windows Mobile platforms. This could be game changing, … [Read more…]
It’s a massive sum for a company that doesn’t turn a profit, but could internet phone company Skype finally get the step-change it needs? Microsoft’s dominance in Office could see Skype integrated into the operating systems of hundreds of millions of PCs, as well as the growing Windows Mobile platforms. This could be game changing, … [Read more…]
Business-based social network LinkedIn plans to sell stock at $32 to $35 per share in an initial public offering that would value the professional social-networking firm at more than $3bn, the company said in a government document.
The internet is thriving in Spain, with more than 23.5 million web users logging on from Spain in March, up 5% from a year ago, according to new data.
Performance marketing company Efficient Frontier has acquired Context Optional, a provider of enterprise social marketing solutions.