Google reveals smart contact lens for diabetics
Google has unveiled a ‘smart contact lens’ that that monitors glucose levels in tears, designed to help diabetics avoid having to prick their fingers to draw blood as many as 10 times a day.
Top 6 affiliate marketing tips for 2014
As 2014 dawns, Rakuten LinkShare offers 6 key tips for marketers running cost-per-acquisition programmes, outlining the importance of good data and using seasonal highs and lows to your advantage.
Yahoo COO fired by boss Marissa Mayer as sales struggle
Yahoo’s Chief Operating Officer Henrique de Castro has left the company just 14 months at the side of boss Marrisa Mayer.
Top 10 web brands in the US: Google leads but Facebook dominates user engagement
As online consumers prepared for the holiday shopping season, most surfed to search, social, and shopping sites in November.
Top travel sites for social media: KLM leads the way
Dutch airline KLM have outperformed the rest of the travel industry in the very first Travel Social Media Benchmark from eDigitalResearch, topping the Facebook league table with over 4.5 million followers.
Google buys gadget maker Nest Labs for $3.2bn
Google has bought technology firm Nest Labs, founded by iPod inventor Tony Fadell, in a $3.2bn deal that could help the internet giant rival Apple in terms of hardware.
Managing social media comments: YouTube users get new community controls
YouTube has brought back tools to help uploaders control comments on their videos via a central system, in a bid to make manage social media comments better.
BMW showcases self-driving cars with smooth ‘drift’
BMW has unveiled its version of self-driving cars that can “drift” around bends and slalom between cones.
Google sparks privacy fears after making Gmail contacts ‘public’
Google has caused a privacy stir yet again, as Gmail contact lists will now include both the email addresses of their existing contacts, as well as the names of people on the Google+ social network.
Samsung named ‘social brand of the year’
Samsung has been named as the social brand of the year according to Unruly after amassing 7.3 million shares of its videos.