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Facebook Going Public‏ – Top Secret?

Tuesday, 31st January 2012

While it has been discussed for a long time that Facebook will go public, it now looks as though that is finally about to happen. (more…)

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Are Facebook And The Internet More Important Than Toilets?

Tuesday, 13th September 2011

A study conducted by the Science Museum in London has revealed that the Internet and Facebook rank higher than basic necessities in a list of fifty things that the British public said they cannot do without. (more…)

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Tablet Sales Soaring

Monday, 28th February 2011

Reports recently published by various analysts have shown that the sale of tablets has increased greatly over the last year and the trend is set to continue. (more…)

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Social Media Used To Fuel Civil Unrest In Egypt

Monday, 31st January 2011

Protestors in Egypt are using various social platforms such as YouTube, Facebook and Twitter as well as mobile communications to spread their message to the outside world. (more…)

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Delicious Might Be Cut Off From Yahoo!

Wednesday, 22nd December 2010

A document which was leaked recently, has started quite a flutter among users of the book marking site Delicious. (more…)

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Traffic Loss To The Times Due To Paywall

Monday, 2nd August 2010

Following the trend started by some other publications, The Times of London has recently started the practice of using a paywall to prevent readers from accessing their online content for free. (more…)

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Facebook Changing U.K. Government Policy-Making

Friday, 25th June 2010

Facebook CEO, Mark Zuckerberg’s, European trip began in London, where he met David Cameron, the new Prime Minister. There talks included a discussion on improving digital engagement in the UK government’s policy making process. (more…)

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Huge Gap In New Vs Old Media News Channels

Thursday, 27th May 2010

The growing popularity of the Internet, in general, and blogs and social media, in particular, has resulted in new sources from which people now collect their news. (more…)

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News Consumers Favour Multiple Sources

Friday, 5th March 2010

A joint survey conducted by the Pew Research Center’s Internet and American Life project and the Project for Excellence in Journalism studied the habits of American consumers with regard to their preferred sources for daily news. (more…)

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Yahoo! Gets Real Time News Updates

Monday, 23rd November 2009

Earlier this month we had news that Yahoo! was experimenting with real time search. Now, Yahoo! has officially integrated with Twitter and is featuring results from the micro-blogging platform for hot news topics. (more…)

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Traditional Media Delivers News Faster Than Social Media

Monday, 20th July 2009

A number of recent major news events and breaking news stories were reported first on blogs and microblogging sites like Twitter, even before they were reported by the traditional media. However a study conducted at Cornell University finds that traditional media still remains vital in delivering the news first. (more…)

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Twitter Search To Start Indexing Web Content

Tuesday, 12th May 2009

Santosh Jayaram, the new V.P. of Operations at Twitter recently said that they will soon start crawling and indexing links that are posted on Twitter. This means that Twitter search results could include several web pages that are crawled from links within tweets. (more…)

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Google Still Top Global Brand

Thursday, 7th May 2009

Brandz Top 100, a list of the world’s 100 most valuable brands, has recently been compiled for 2009 by Millward Brown a leading research company, which is a subsidiary of the WPP group. (more…)

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Phorm Whips Up Privacy Storm

Tuesday, 5th May 2009

The new online technology used by Phorm has created quite a stir and has upset advocates of user privacy. All the negative publicity has the company up in arms and representative for Phorm (who has requested not to be named!) has replied to our original post. His feedback has been shared here. (more…)

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Microsoft Vine Debuts

Wednesday, 29th April 2009

Microsoft has recently launched a new social web application called Vine that will first be beta tested in Seattle. Critics liken the service to a combination of Twitter and Facebook. (more…)

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The Race For One Million Twitter Followers

Friday, 17th April 2009

Twitter is growing by leaps and bounds. Its following grew by an unbelievable 75% from February to March this year, with site visits doubling. The site has its celebrity users to thank for this sudden growth spurt. (more…)

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What’s New With AccuraCast?

Wednesday, 15th April 2009

A lot has been going on outside of our main website, and I thought I’d write a quick post to update our readers about some of these new developments. (more…)

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Young People Abandoning Email And TV

Wednesday, 4th February 2009

Change, they say, is the only constant. This seems to apply to the findings of studies conducted on the modes of entertainment pursued by youngsters – teenagers in particular – today. (more…)

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Will eBay Sell Skype? Should Google Buy It?

Monday, 2nd February 2009

As if the blogosphere was not already rife with rumours of mergers and acquisitions, the latest rumors to add to the lot are that eBay may actually sell off Skype if they get a good offer. (more…)

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