Avon calling… your PC: Beauty brand puts reps on new social media platform
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.
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Anti-spam email provider Goodmail to shut down
E-mail services provider Goodmail Systems is to cease operations this month, following the collapse of takeover talks with an unnamed buyer.
Radio listening switches to digital and online
Over nine in ten UK adults tuned in to radio stations each week during the last quarter of 2010, with more people switching from analogue to DAB radios, according to new figures.
Cyber Sunday: Top Xmas shopping websites in the UK
Top shopping and classified websites on Sunday 5th December 2010.
97% of over 11s ‘have their own mobile phone’
Nearly all Children over 11 have their own mobiles, while they spend 50 minutes online a day, according to a new poll looking into Children’s screen habits.
O2 and Virgin Media big winners at broadband awards
O2 and Virgin Media took two awards each of the seven on offer in the first Broadbandgenie.co.uk Home Broadband Awards, announced this week.
Freelancers to benefit from social media boom- survey
Social media is predicted to boom across UK businesses in 2011, with freelancers set to benefit from a raft of new short term vacancies as firms look for flexible solutions.
Mail Online holds top online paper slot with 53.9m UK readers
The website of the Daily Mail remains the UK’s most popular national newspaper website for the twelfth month in succession, attracting 53.9 million browsers in December, according to new figures.
98% of music singles tracks now bought online
Almost all single music tracks are now purchased digitally instead of in physical formats in the UK, with the total of singles sold increasing since 2007, according to new research from the Office of National Statistics.
British holiday-planners ‘drowning in sea of online research’
Two thirds of online Brits (67%) are now using the Internet to research, source and plan their holidays both here in the UK and abroad, according to the latest research from Memonic, the free web based note-taking software company, and YouGov.