Twitter hit by $645m loss during 2013
Twitter has posted a net loss of $645m (£396m) for 2013, three months after its flotation on the New York Stock Exchange, as the micro-blogging network struggles to attract new and existing users.
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Case study: Luxury retailer Avenue mobile strategy boosts transaction value 270%
Luxury online fashion retailer, Avenue 32, has launched its multichannel strategy, supporting young designers that are unable to invest in their own online presence to showcase their collections and expand their audience.
PayPal lets shoppers buy direct from merchant’s sites
PayPal has redesigned its online checkout process to let shoppers complete their payment on merchants’ websites, rather than go to a separate PayPal site, as the eBay owned firm ramps up competition with rival Amazon.
Spotify offers unlimited free browser music streaming
Spotify has removed yet another restriction to its free offering, as competition continues to bite at the heels of one of the leading streaming music services.
Lays expands ‘Do Us A Flavour’ into year-long social media campaign
Lay’s is running a second campaign for its crowdsourced “Do Us A Flavour” ads, this time incorporating Instagram and Twitter, as Pepsico’s crisp brand looks to boost its reach on smartphones and tablets.
Ecommerce trends in the UK: £91bn spent online in 2013
Online retail sales exceeded expectations in December, with the IMRG Capgemini e-Retail Sales Index recording 18% year-on-year growth as a result of British shoppers spending £11 billion online – up from £9 billion spent in December 2012.
AccuWeather to launch weather channel this year
Weather app AccuWeather is to launch a 24-hour weather channel in the third quarter of 2014.
Mobile trends: Text messages fall in 2013 as chat apps rise
The number of text messages being sent in the UK has fallen for the first time ever as more people turn to Whatsapp and iMessage, according to new research looking into mobile trends.
Wolfram’s Connected Devices Project records the ‘internet of things’
Wolfram Research, the firm behind the Wolfram Alpha search engine, is expanding into the ‘Internet of Things’ with an attempt to collect all connected devices in the world into an online directory.
Apple buys iPhone camera app SnappyCam
Apple has acquired SnappyLabs, the one-man app developer behind SnappyCam, a high-speed continuous shooting photography app for iOS.