Bing ramps up Facebook ‘Like’ data in search rankings
Microsoft has deepened its ties with Facebook to make Bing’s search engine more social, as the two firms look to challenge Google’s dominance of the search sector.
Android phones 'vulnerable to attack'
Nearly all (99.7%) of Google’s Android phones are vulnerable to hackers, according to new research.
Android phones ‘vulnerable to attack’
Nearly all (99.7%) of Google’s Android phones are vulnerable to hackers, according to new research.
Search marketers boost local and mobile budgets- study
Companies are ramping up their investment in local and mobile search as part of an increased commitment to search engine marketing, according to a new survey-based report.
Google cuts out Microsoft with cloud-based laptop ‘Chromebook’
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.
Delicious, Tap11.com and YouTube’s founders – Hot dotcoms to watch
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…]
Google’s special $500m legal fund: Expecting fines from ad probe?
How often do you wade through the regulatory filings of dotcoms? Not the most exciting of digital papers, but a tenacious researcher would have spotted one interesting item in Google’s recent footnotes – a $500m fund to settle the probe from US Department of Justice investigation into its ad practices. An accounting trick to reduce … [Read more…]
Google online music store launch: cloud storage for 20,000 songs
The countdown is underway to the launch of a major global play for music by the world’s largest online media property. At the I/O developer conference there was intensive talk of the long awaited Google music platform. More on what to expect as the testing goes mainstream…
Top 10 websites in Spain
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.
Top 30 web properties in Europe
Google Sites ranked as the top European web property in March, attracting 330.3 million unique visitors and reaching 90.8 percent of the total European Internet audience, according to new research from comScore.