ScanMe turns social media profiles into real world barcodes
Social media tool ScanMe has launched this week, an application that creates a unique, permanent, QR barcode for a user through their Facebook account.
RAC first to sign up to eBay’s newsletter ads
eBay Advertising is launching ad placements on its UK daily and weekly deals newsletter which reaches millions of eBay shoppers, with the RAC the first to sign up to the new format.
Brits turning to social media to talk about brands
A growing number of the UK population are using social media to express their opinions about brands and companies, according to a new poll.
Does marketing really work for small businesses?
Nearly a third (65%) of UK SMEs have an annual marketing budget of less than £5,000, with many small businesses failing to set a budget at all, according to a new poll.
Collaboration and social tools ‘drain business productivity’
The proliferation of collaboration and social tools designed to increase productivity is actually costing businesses £57.8bn per year in lost productivity, according to a survey.
AOL profits slide 86%
Internet firm AOL faced another quarter of declining advertising and subscription revenue, pushing down profit as the company tries to turn itself into an online media conglomerate.
Right to reply: Will the PSN hack undermine credit card confidence?
Sony recently admitted that the personal information of 77 million of its customers, 3 million of them Britons, is now in the hands of hackers. That’s the same as unofficial estimates of the UK’s population. Justin Schamotta is a senior staff writer for Choose.net, looks into the implications of one the biggest data heists in … [Read more…]
Sony admits to PlayStation data theft: Have credit card details been stolen?
Sony has finally admitted that account details, logins and online IDs for 77 million registered Sony PlayStation Network users have been compromised, following a hacker attack that has brought the whole gaming network down for over a week.
Top 20 tips for affiliate marketing
Affiliate marketing, using online publishers to promote your brand on a pay per performance basis, has reached a level of maturity. But how can you make the most out of this lucrative channel? Alex Lockett, senior affiliate marketing consultant at Stream:20, offers 20 key tips for affiliate marketers…
Google Video to shut down this month
Google is closing its ‘Google Video’ site on 29th April, and deleting all the files that have been uploaded to it, as the search giant focuses its video strategy on YouTube.