News articles for December 2010

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  Warning as hackers said to be targeting smartphones and social media platforms

  30th December 2010

  Smartphones and social media websites and applications are forecast to be among the top targets from hackers and spammers in 2011, as they look to take advantage of the massive popularity of these still-growing communication methods.
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  Good news for online retailers, says Hitwise

  29th December 2010

  Online research firm Hitwise says shoppers have rediscovered their desire for purchasing goods online over the festive period.
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  Britons spend average £104 each shopping online as e-stores experience surge in trade

  22nd December 2010

  Christmas came early for many online retailers in the UK, with sales in November jumping by 23.4 per cent over the previous month, according to figures.
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  Online sales now account for more than 10 per cent of UK’s total

  17th December 2010

  The proportion of total retail sales in the UK taken by online businesses has risen by a third in 12 months.
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  Google refreshes search and ad deal with troubled MySpace

  17th December 2010

  A deal between search engine Google and social media site MySpace over their search and advertising functions, first struck in 2006, has just been renewed.
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  Bing rings the changes with its search functions

  16th December 2010

  Microsoft is certainly not letting Google take its position as the world’s biggest search engine for granted, and has just announced an array of changes to its social and local search functions.
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  Twitter means business as it starts looking for advertisers

  15th December 2010

  In a move which heralds a full launch of its advertising programmes for all businesses, Twitter has just launched an enhanced edition of its business users’ online guide.
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  Facebook voted America’s best employer

  15th December 2010

  Not only is Facebook increasingly popular with users around the world, but a new survey shows it is the best company to work for, according to its own staff.
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  Disasters provide Twitter users with the year’s hot gossip

  13th December 2010

  Twitter has just released details of the most popular topics on its micro-blogging platform in 2010.
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  TripAdvisor settles dispute with Google over use of reviews

  13th December 2010

  A row over the amount of its contributors’ original content being used in Google Places reviews which originally led travel advice website TripAdvisor to block its reviews from the site appears to have been resolved.