Buddy Media gets $54m funding for social media management
Social media management software firm Buddy Media has raised $54 million in Series D funding from a group of leading late-stage investors.
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Online retail: UK sees slowest sales growth in 18 months
The latest figures from the IMRG Capgemini e-Retail Sales Index have revealed a slowdown in the performance of the online sales market, with year-on-year growth at its lowest level since January 2010.
Cadbury chocolate bars turned into augmented reality games
blippar, a free smart phone app that converts real world images into virtual experiences, has launched in partnership with Cadbury UK and Ireland.
eBay boosts mobile payments with Zong buy
eBay has bought start-up Zong for an undisclosed sum, as the Online marketplace looks to boost its mobile payments services.
Roundtable report: Internet is Double Edged Sword in Customer Service
The world wide web may have given businesses easy access to a huge audience and the opportunity to remedy customer complaints in public but it’s also increased pressure on firms to react quickly without losing the personal touch, according to a recent roundtable debate.
Guest comment: Is mobile search doomed?
Mobile search is struggling to live up to its early promise, at least in terms of user popularity. Farhad Divecha, Director of AccuraCast looks at how the industry can get users searching on the move…
Tesco and Asda cooperate in online food intolerance scheme
Tesco and Asda have released their food databases in an initiative created by FoodWiz as an app on mobile phones to help all those people with food intolerances, IBS and coeliac disease.
HTC boosts cloud services with Dashwire buy
Taiwan handset maker HTC has bought Seattle-based mobile Internet app company Dashwire for up to US$18.5m to strengthen its mobile cloud services.
Google to restart Realtime search… without Twitter?
Google is aiming to resurrect its Realtime search feature, a month after its contract with Twitter ended.
Boys ‘more interactive than girls on Facebook’
There are key gender differences in how today’s digital natives interact online according to a new study.