France is set to introduce what has been dubbed a ‘Google tax’ on online advertisements on January 1 2011, parliament decided Tuesday.

Twitter is set to open its first overseas office in London, according to a news report.

Google’s integration of promoted tweets into the real-time search section of its live results, which it rolled out in late November, coincided with revelations it allegedly made two unsuccessful attempts to buy the social communication site. The search giant supposedly made an initial offer of $2.5bn which Twitter’s founders said was ‘insulting’. It then came … [Read more…]

TV catch-up services ITV Player and Channel 4’s 4oD have joined existing service BBC iPlayer on the PS3 console.

Creating a separate ‘gift centre’ for customers makes the online shopping process quick and effective, writes Hosein Moghaddas, VP & MD International, GSI Commerce.

Juniper Research has signalled an unprecedented interest in the mobile advertising space by key brands and agencies. This follows the dramatic increase in mobile application usage in key markets and the growing penetration of smartphones with location aware and augmented reality (AR) capabilities.

One third of the world’s most visited sites take more than a second to load on an iPad, threatening revenues as the tablet device grows in popularity, according to new research.

McDonald’s Corp. says some of its customers’ private information may have been accessed during a data breach.

McDonald’s Corp. says some of its customers’ private information may have been accessed during a data breach.

Twitter has added more than 100 million registered accounts in 2010, and is now being used by 8% of all American internet users, according to new data.