Widgets are mini-applications that allow marketeers to distribute, track and update their content beyond their own domain. The major social networking sites, such as Facebook, have adopted widgets with enthusiasm and media companies are now also...
10 January 2008
More than 50% of US Households now own digital television sets, most with high-definition capability. The digital TV milestone has been crossed a full year before the February 2009 federal deadline for US broadcasters to switch from analogue to...
12 January 2008
In 1999, at the height of the dot-com mania, a group of signatories issued the Cluetrain Manifesto, which predicted that the internet would fundamentally change the way in which marketeers would have to operate in the future. Written well before the...
03 December 2007
Social Shopping sites are emerging as an interesting new component of the overall e-commerce mix. It is too early to predict their overall impact but they have already changed some e-shopping behaviour.
28 January 2008
Internet subscriber numbers have grown dramatically in India and China over the past five years. In China, there were over 150 million internet users in 2007, over a third of these with Broadband access. In contrast, India had around 50 million...
14 February 2008
Internet penetration has continued its dramatic global growth over the last five years. In Europe and North America, internet penetration increased from just over 30% of the population in 2004 to around 37% in 2006. In Africa, over the same period,...
14 February 2008
The impact of Social Networks is growing rapidly in the UK. Social networks now account for more than 5% of traffic and 20% of all page impressions in the UK, and younger users are more likely to use them than web-mail based services. Viral marketing...
25 February 2008
Plastic Logic, the Cambridge, UK-based company, has raised €77m to finance the growth of its business, including the development of a new manufacturing facility in Germany. The company is aiming to become the global leader in plastic electronics...
24 January 2007
Joost, one of the first of the new broadcast-quality Internet television services, has raised €37m in Series A funding from five investors, including Index Ventures. The funding will enable Joost to accelerate product development, and facilitate...
05 June 2007
BubbleMotion, one of the pioneers in 'voice SMS', has raised $14 million in additional funding from existing investors Sequoia Capital US and Sequoia Capital India, as well as new investors Comcast Interactive Capital and NCD Investors. The company...
27 March 2008