HMV goes into administration: Over 4,000 jobs at risk
HMV has gone into administration, as the entertainment retail giant succumbs to increased competition from online retailers and supermarkets.
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Amazon ‘AutoRip’ takes on iTunes with free digital copies of purchased CDs
Amazon is offering customers that purchase CDs a free digital version saved to its cloud storage service.
Play.com shuts online retail arm after UK tax loophole closed
Online music and computer game seller Play.com is to close down its direct retail business and shift to an online marketplace from spring 2013.
UK digital download sales surpass £1bn
Digital sales of music, games and films have broken the £1 billion barrier for the first time in the UK, according to new data.
10 biggest search trends of the year
From Pudsey the dog to Gangnam Style, as 2012 comes to a close Experian Hitwise takes a look back at some of the big events that have trended online this year in the UK.
4G UK auction: 2 surprise bidders revealed
There will be two relative strangers to UK mobile users among the firms bidding in next year’s 4G auction.
C4 ‘Stand Up to Cancer’ mobile campaign gets 360,000 interactions
Back in October, broadcaster Channel 4 ’s ‘Stand Up To Cancer’ telethon event in support of Cancer Research UK managed to get 360,000 intervactions. This case study looks at how mobile marketing firm Velti delivered the campaign.
Email deluge leaves little time for “real work”
Surging numbers of emails cause workers to spend countless hours sorting, filing, flagging and tagging instead of focusing on action items, according to new research.
HMV warns on sales as online retailers take market share
HMV has warned that it faces an uncertain future in the face of continuing falling sales, as the retailer struggles to compete with online retailers and piracy.
Facebook privacy: New controls over ‘who can see your stuff’
Facebook is to introduce new privacy controls next week letting users set their level of “frictionless sharing”, which has until now allowed apps such as Spotify or Yahoo! News to automatically post on the social network about users’ listening or reading habits.