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Matt Mullenwed of WordPress, the free open source blogging tool and a content management system, has warned that thousands of users could stop using Tumblr in the wake of its purchase by Yahoo. According to him, upon hearing news of the acquisition the WordPress platform saw an unusually high number of imported posts from Tumblr, [...]
Update: The end of 2013 should finally reveal the new smartphone ’Jolla’. The creation by former employees of Nokia using Nokia-abandoned operating system MeeGo (now renamed Sailfish) aims to bring the MeeGo successor to the mainstream market. The new smartphone will support 4G, be Google Android apps compatible and have features that include a 4.5 [...]
This week as the Shoreditch Festival gets under way, GfK, one of the world’s largest research companies, has released its ‘Tech City Futures’ report highlighting crucial findings from their research into London’s tech sector. Among the findings GfK has revealed that: Nearly a half of businesses, (44%), find a shortage of skilled workers is the [...]
Google continues to try to set itself apart from rivals as it makes a major change to their core algorithm resulting in a difference in 35% of searches according to Google. The aim of the change is to make results more relevant so that anyone executing a search can choose whether they want the most [...]
Things have moved fast since Finnish firm NOKIA’s CEO warned employers of the company’s predicament with his ‘burning platform’ & ‘icy waters’ speech earlier in the year. Two weeks ago Nokia proudly launched the Lumia 800 along with cheaper model 710 to go on sale this month in France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain and [...]
Amazon.es launched in Spain. Amazon opened its online doors to SPAIN on Sept. 15th. This is good news for a country where e-commerce is way behind the times. That said, Spaniards have been using the co.uk/com sites for quite some time now and the figure quoted for Spanish visitors to the Amazon website stood at [...]
Hype v Reality? As internet companies form a non-orderly queue to register an Initial Public Offering (that is first sale of stock to the public) some claim we have entered into a new tech bubble. They justify the claim by citing recent valuations of Facebook, Linked-In and Groupon and warn from this that investors should [...]
Hyundia owned Kia Motors Ltd has reported massive success in its endeavour to fully embrace online marketing in 2009. Kia’s digital marketing management revealed that since their website overhaul in 2010, they have received 72% more traffic and recently stated that ‘People say you wouldn’t launch a new car without going on TV. But it [...]
Groupon finally made its entry into the world’s most densely inhabited internet market as its Chinese site Gaopeng.com has begun offering daily deals in March. Their emergence into the market has ignited the curiosity of some Chinese industry leaders, however the big question remains how they plan to distinguish themselves from already established firms. The [...]
Amazon plans to take on online video streaming big gun Netflix by launching its own film service, offering TV and film that can be watched directly from the Amazon site. In the beginning they won’t be offering as many films and programmes as their rival, but said they plan to increase the number available over [...]