Social media search trends: Facebook ditches Bing to focus on ‘Graph Search’
Facebook has ended its deal with Microsoft to show Bing web results in its search engine, instead using its own results powered by the social media habits of its users.
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China now rivalling US dominance of digital media
China accounts for two of the six companies with the highest online media revenues and four of the 10 fastest-growing, according to the latest Digital Media Index from global research and advisory firm Strategy Analytics which analyses revenue trends across 44 public digital media companies.
Digital advertising trends in 2014: Rise of automated ads as content goes native
From Facebook’s first web-wide ad network to the collapse of the Omnicon-Publicis merger, 2014 was a huge year for digital advertising. This was the year that programmatic ads went mainstream, native ads got smarter and online ad revenue overtook broadcast TV in the US. As part of our review of the year, we look back … [Read more…]
Amazon lets shoppers haggle with ‘Make an Offer’ button
Amazon has launched a new bidding option that lets buyers hit a button marked “Make an offer” on selected product pages, instead of just adding them to their cart.
Right to reply: The problem with Amazon? It needs to grow up
FACT-Finder.com Founder and CEO Carsten Kraus responds to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ comments at the Business Insider Ignition conference and suggests ways to turn around the Fire Phone’s fortunes.
Bezos admits “billions of dollars of failures at Amazon”
The Amazon CEO has admited that failures, such as recent Fire Phone flop, have cost the company billions of dollars, but is adamant that experimentation is key to the company’s survival.
Steam takes on Twitch with game streaming service
PC gaming platform Steam has added a new feature that lets users watch their friends’ games with just one press of a button.
Top brands on Pinterest: ASOS leads the way for retailers
For the second year in a row, online fashion retailer, ASOS, is the most popular UK online retail site when it comes to having web content shared on Pinterest, the pin-board style social network, in the run up to Christmas.
Shopping web extension .buy proving popular with marketers
With a plethora of new web extensions going live on the internet, those that are shopping-focussed are deemed the most valuable by marketers, with .Buy is the most anticipated gTLD amongst marketers, according to new research from the Trademark Clearinghouse.
Amazon brings click and collect to UK post offices
Amazon customers can now collect their parcels from Post Office branches after the online retail giant signed up to Royal Mail’s Local Collect service.