UK parenting website Bounty planned to launch its first ever flash sale in association with Kiddicare this week. Members were promised at least 75% off products for five days, by quoting a special code. But by Monday evening Bounty was tweeting its apologies as ‘unmanageable interest levels’ had crashed the site and forced it to … [Read more…]
Job search engine Adzuna has launched in the UK, backed by a £300k seed investment from Passion Capital and prominent angel investors.
Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. has withdrawn its bid to take over British satellite broadcaster BSkyB, following pressure from politicians, the media and the public in light of the News of the World phone hacking scandal.
Facebook still dominates the UK social network sector, with nearly 54% of the market share, but YouTube remains the fastest growing, according to new research from Hitwise.
June was Google’s best month of 2011, as the search giant accounted for over 92% of all searches conducted by UK Internet users during the month, according to new research.
Experts in video making have warned the creative industries to up their game if they’re to compete in a fast-changing environment that’s being overrun with wannabe filmmakers.
Emerging new media brands look set to benefit from a growing consumer backlash against ‘traditional’ media outlets in the wake of the NOTW hacking scandal and subsequent closure of the publication, according to research released today by online publisher, Populis.
Shock news that the News of the World is to close on Sunday after the phone hacking scandal has sparked rumours of a swift online and print replacement, as a mystery buyer snaps up the domain name for ‘TheSunOnSunday.co.uk’.
The European Directives and resulting UK legislation, designed to protect users’ personal data as they move about the web, has turned out to be more than a clampdown on cookies. It’s about cleaning up the internet so that customers don’t need to worry about who’s watching them, and brands don’t need to worry about betraying … [Read more…]
In the latest series of the BBC TV show ‘The Apprentice’, Alan Sugar sparked controversy for firing a contestant on the basis that he’s ‘never come across an engineer that can turn his hand to business’. Suranga Chandratillake, founder and CEO of video search engine Blinkx argues why engineers such as James Dyson, Mark Zuckerberg … [Read more…]