The need to access basic financial services by users in developing countries will drive the short term growth of active mobile money users globally to exceed 200 million by 2013, according to new research.
Yahoo has launched AdLabs, a service that will reportedly combine success-measuring ad metrics and science to stimulate innovation in the online advertising sphere.
Global beauty brand Avon has launched a new social media platform to consumers, Avon Connects, allowing customers to virtually ‘attach’ to an Avon Representative online.
There has been a marked decrease in the cost of a megabit, with Brits paying on average just half the amount they were paying in early 2008 for their bandwidth, according to new research.
This week, the last of the world’s 4.3 billion IP addresses based on its standard IPv4 platform were allocated. So what does this mean for you and your business? Sebastien Lahtinen, co-founder of independent broadband news site, thinkbroadband.com, explains the growing importance of the new IPv6 address system, and why you should check your technology … [Read more…]
Facebook has launched its ‘deals’ service in the UK, giving users of its Places app local offers sent to their mobile phone, ready to redeem.
The BBC is to cut about 200 websites in a cost-cutting drive, resulting in the loss of up to 360 jobs at the broadcaster over the next two years.
Google is testing an online voucher scheme called that would give users discounts for limited time deals, in a move that would place it in direct competition with Groupon, the firm it tried to buy late last year.
Martha Lane Fox, founder of Lastminute and the Government’s ‘digital champion’ has announced a scheme for making recycled computers available to the public for less than £100.
The CEO of group-buying discount site Groupon has apologised to Japanese customers Monday for a New Year’s deal gone wrong.