Stock market analysts marked down Yahoo this week on news that the strategy for China was unclear. Shares fell 7% in a day when the portal stated it was “engaged in ongoing discussions” about the future of its stake in Alibaba. This came after the Chinese ecommerce business sold control of its Alipay payment platform … [Read more…]
The theft of 70 million online gamers’ personal data in one of the largest privacy breaches to date, according to William Beer, a director in PwC’s information security practice.
Email marketers constantly discuss concepts like relevance, lifetime value, dynamic content, automation and delivery. But what about the more mundane topics like data security? In the last few months, consumers have received a number of notifications explaining that security failures have compromised email addresses and provided third parties with potential access to digital identities. Ryan … [Read more…]
Marin Software has secured an additional $16 million (£9.8m) in Series E financing, as the online ad management platform wins a raft of new clients.
Somewhat late to the party, 2011 is billed as the year that the financial services sector will truly embrace the mobile. Other sectors have been more forthcoming in driving mobile revenues but perhaps the mobile marketing opportunity for finance products and services is worth waiting for? James Richards, Director of mobinetic, IE, takes a closer … [Read more…]
When it comes to online ads for financial services, the first exposure is when users are most likely to convert, according to new research.
Google has bought UK price comparison site BeatThatQuote.com for £37.7m ($61m), as the search giant looks to boost its presence in the so-called ‘vertical search’ sector to cover specific areas of interest in more depth.
The need to access basic financial services by users in developing countries will drive the short term growth of active mobile money users globally to exceed 200 million by 2013, according to new research.
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…]
Price comparison service Moneysupermarket.com has acquired rival company Financial Services Net in a £9million deal.