“Tumblr will become predominantly mobile”
A blogging network currently with 170 million visitors each month worldwide, Tumblr has seen extraordinary growth – and created a whole new sharing space for young people who believe that taking stylised pictures of random objects, landscapes or their pets systematically makes them gifted artists….
Google to pay Apple $1bn to remain default search engine on iOS
According to a report by Morgan Stanley, search engine giant Google is set to pay as much as $1bn next year to remain the default search engine on Apple’s mobile operating system iOS. In 2009 Google paid a paltry $82m for the privilege. In comparing this…
Google to build wireless network
Last year Google rolled out it’s own fibre network in an effort to improve internet speeds across the US. Now Google have decided to make a move into the wireless business, this shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone with Google already owning Motorola and also running Android. Google have applied for…
Google adds confirmation click to in app ads
Google have announced the implementation of a new “confirmation” click aimed at combating accidental clicks on in-app mobile ads. This will occur when the ad is pressed on the edge of a banner ad, Google say that this has already proven to increase conversion rates but in…
How do PPI text’s work?
We have all had those highly annoying text’s about how much money we are owed through miss sold PPI and on those tighter days towards the end of the month I do think hmmm maybe I should enquire. Luckily sense prevails and I remind myself that surely anything like this is…
Google game Ingress captures user data
The world around you is not what it seems The slogan for Google’s new augmented reality game Ingress released for Android rings true, as it captures user data about the environment around them. “A user must physically go to a location and check in to…
The art of the check-in
As Facebook announces its revenue growth from mobile advertising and Foursquare’s userbase tops 10m, it is worth looking again at the value of the “check-in”, particularly for small to medium-sized businesses. Intuit have recently published an infographic on their small business blog that determines how…
Be careful what you say on Facebook!
This week, a man was sentenced to 12 weeks of prison, after having posted comments on Facebook which were deemed offensive. Mathew Woods, 20, from Chorley, Lancashire, had allegedly referred to the missing girls April Jones and Madeleine McCann. This is only of many cases…
The Future for Social Media in Fashion Retail
The trend for online shopping has created an apparent butterfly effect in recent months, as retail stores develop new forms of marketing specifically through social media strategies, to attract shoppers to their stores, and has consequently seen the market boom over the last few years….
iPhone 5 social media coverage
The huge amount of news coverage in the last two weeks relating to Apple’s launch of the iPhone 5 has been largely negative, relating to the problems with the software iOS 6 including Apple Maps that the camera is of poorer quality than the iPhone…