Archive for June, 2010
AOL finally sells Bebo
There have been reports that AOL have finally sold the social network – Bebo. AOL originally purchased Bebo in 2008 for US$850 million. Unfortunately AOL has been unable to make anything out of Bebo and the purchase has been considered a major business flop. Criterion Capital Partners seem to have now purchased Bebo for around […]
Read More | ShareYahoo Australia buys Sports Tipping Site OzTips
Yahoo!7 – the Australian arm of Yahoo has acquired a Australian sports site OzTips.com OzTips is Australia’s largest online sports tipping sites which allows users to create private tipping competitions between friends / colleagues/ family etc. This now doubles the audience Yahoo!7 sports has. Yahoo!7 is purchasing OzTips from the parent company NextGen.Net Pty No […]
Read More | ShareMobile search growing
With the abundance of cheap web enabled mobile phones now – businesses cannot ignore the power of mobile search. Currently mobile search only accounts for about 9% of all search queries (with the other 91% on the computer). RBC Capital Markets in the US have done a study showing that currently mobile search accounts for […]
Read More | ShareFacebook to provide SSL access (HTTPS)
Facebook has been praised by privacy advocates around the world for rolling out more simplified privacy controls last month. The privacy changes have also won praise from much of its users as now controlling your personal information is much more simple. Facebook has not said they are looking to roll out SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) […]
Read More | ShareTwitter to roll out new ads in Trending Topics
Twitter is testing a new feature allowing ads in the Trending Topics section. The feature is part of the Promoted Tweets, a tool Twitter is using to promote businesses and connect with its fans. If you look at the trending topics on the right hand side of your Twitter home you may see something like […]
Read More | ShareOrgasm over Social Media
What the?? Do you love Social Media so much that it gets you hot and steamy, maybe even to orgasm? I bet not.. This is getting weird.. Relax.. But I bet there are some absolute Social Media nuts who find social media orgasmic? Maybe i am just writing all this as an excuse to show […]
Read More | ShareBing added to Opera Browser
Microsoft has completed a deal with rival internet browser Opera, making Bing one of the default search engines in the browser search field. If you want to download the latest version of Opera 10.60 Beta goto: http://www.opera.com/browser/next/ Google will still remain as the Default search, but getting Bing infront of Opera users is a good […]
Read More | ShareAre we addicted to the internet?
The internet is a tool many of us use everyday for work or personal reasons. In fact we recently celebrated the internet becoming 20 years old. Fact is the first 10 years of the internet slowly gathered new users. The last 10 years – user numbers have exploded! It is reported now 1 in 8 […]
Read More | ShareWhat companies are the most social? Infograph
A recent study – the NetProspex Social 50 looks at the social media/network usage of employees, and ranks the top 50 organisations overall social media activity. A range of companies are analysed including: Microsoft, LinkedIn, Facebook, MySpace, eBay, Amazon, Google, IBM, Sun, Dell, Oracle, CISCO, HP, Intel, Twitter, Nike, Coca Cola, Kodak plus many others. […]
Read More | ShareWhat is Google TV?
We heard the word about Google TV since March, the excitement finally become part of the Google I / O last month, when the ambitious project has been revealed. Now Google has released a video that illustrates how it works. Combining television and Web content to create one, simple experience. People have said this could […]
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