Catch up on the latest online marketing and ecommerce news from around the world.
Marketing
06 June 2011
While Google competes with Microsoft and Yahoo in the search market, the three companies are cooperating to help web publishers make their content more comprehensible to search engines.
Marketing
27 May 2011
Google on Thursday unveiled a mobile wallet platform and field tests in New York and San Francisco that will let people with special phones pay for goods in retail shops by tapping the phones against a payment terminal.
Marketing
23 May 2011
The online graphical advertisement market is likely to increase significantly within the next few years, Neal Mohan, the vice president of display advertising product at Google predicts.
Marketing
04 May 2011
Rumours have been circulating for a week about the possibility of Twitter acquiring TweetDeck and it seems that the deal may finally have been done.
Marketing
19 April 2011
Google's latest quarterly results have shown rising costs from recruiting new staff.
Marketing
19 April 2011
Recruitment advertising for posts in the UK office, understood to be considered for an East London location, has already started, with vacancies for a sales account manager, sales executive, business development mobile/electronics and communications manager, all posted on the Twitter recruitment feed.
Marketing
19 April 2011
Google looks set to achieve more advertising revenue than ITV in the UK this year, as the search giant goes from strength to strength in this country, analysis has suggested.
Marketing
15 April 2011
Google's first-quarter revenues announced this afternoon were slightly better than what Wall Street was expecting, but earnings per share were lower than anticipated.
Marketing
14 April 2011
Social apps developer UberMedia is reportedly planning to launch a rival to micro-blogging service Twitter for users who are not happy with the platform.
Marketing
13 April 2011
Microsoft's Bing captured 30 percent of all searches run in the U.S.
Marketing
13 April 2011
Bebo, the social networking site for teenagers, has relaunched with a homepage refresh and new features in the hopes of boosting users after a considerable decline of visiters.
Marketing
11 April 2011
Facebook has signed an agreement with Baidu Inc to set up a social-networking website in China, Sohu.com reported, citing unidentified employees at the Chinese search-engine company.
Marketing
11 April 2011
Over the weekend, YouTube began hosting live streams a feature that for the time being has been reserved for pre-approved "trusted partner", not for the kitten-on-the-keyboard masses.
Marketing
07 April 2011
Google plans to create 20 special channels on its YouTube site, and will spend $100 million to create original programming to populate them, according to sources who talked with the Wall Street Journal.
Marketing
06 April 2011
The U.S Federal Trade Commission may soon be adding its name to the list of government agencies investigating Google's dominance of Internet search.
Marketing
04 April 2011
About one in five UK smartphone users bought items via their phone last year, with an average spend of £33.46 per person, acccording to research carried out by polling firm OnePoll on behalf of digital marketing specialist The Bio Agency.
Marketing
31 March 2011
Google is set to be investigated some more with Microsoft announcing they will file a formal complaint against Google with European antitrust regulators today.
Marketing
31 March 2011
It seems the world's governments are not letting up on Google with the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ruling that they had "violated its own privacy promises."
Marketing
29 March 2011
Twitter inventor and co-founder Jack Dorsey is officially returning to Twitter as Executive Chairman, CEO Dick Costolo announced via Twitter yesterday morning.
Marketing
29 March 2011
A study by the accountants PwC and the Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB) found that online advertising spending increased three times as rapidly as in 2009.
Marketing
25 March 2011
Thetrainline.com is developing a mobile ticketing service that will allow customers to buy and redeem train tickets through mobile devices.