Industry News
Below you will find the latest marketing news from around the web selected by Marketing Team Direct.
Facebook to no longer pursue Twitter acquisition There have been rumours circulating that social networking giants Facebook might acquire the popular micro-blogging site Twitter for quite a while now. However, it now appears that a potential deal has broken down between the two companies.Facebook - the popular social networking website that allows people from around the world to connect and collect online friends - has publically expr
2008-11-24 16:08:45 (Source)
Fan pages doomed by social saturationSocial media websites are incredibly, and increasingly, powerful. They have masses of traffic, frequent updates of fresh content and often huge number of links. Nearly every music artist today has a social media page, whether it's an official site or some created by a loyal fan. Popular social media platforms for music artists include: Last.fm MySpace Wikipedia YouTubeMost artists will a
2008-11-24 16:11:27 (Source)
Google launches customisable search function Google has introduced a way for signed-in users to change the way search results are shown for their account. SearchWiki went live this week and allows people to customise the re-order of results and add comments to pages for future reference. Pages can also be completely removed or if something relevant doesn't come up then a user can add a page in. These changes are only made to result
2008-11-24 16:14:07 (Source)
Microsoft To Rebrand Search. Will It Be Kumo?Microsoft will relaunch Windows Live Search under a new brand sometime early next year, says a source within the company. What we don't know is what that new brand will be, although a few names have been thrown around. According to our source, a "final" decision has been made, but very few people inside of Microsoft are aware of it, and it could change. Now LiveSide is saying there's ev
2008-11-24 16:02:17 (Source)
Presidential campaign reveals YouTube to be primary political sourceSince it's inception in 2005, YouTube has long been the place to go for weird and wonderful videos from around the world. However, during this year's presidential campaign, the online video network
became what many video-happy people considered to be the primary source for the latest political news and views, with every speech, ad and opinion from the pundits being posted on the site.Th
2008-11-24 16:05:11 (Source)
Google introduces new iPhone Search-by-Voice app The Search-by-Voice app exclusive for iPhone is a search tool that utilizes voice recognition that lets you tell your phone what you want to know - without you having to take your gloves off. So if
you're wondering where the nearest Starbucks is, just ask the iPhone. Your question is then turned into a digital file that goes to Google's servers which dole out the results in the iPhone's
2008-11-17 17:38:05 (Source)
NS&I most trusted bank according to report
State-backed banking brand National Savings and Investments (NS&I) is the most trusted high-street bank in the UK, according to research from Mintel. NS&I was found to be trusted by one in
four adults (25%), while the average among its competitors is just 16%.
2008-10-10 11:10:00 (Source)
Saab offers pre-Christmas car discount
Saab is slashing the price of its cars and giving consumers the chance to buy them at the same discounted rate as staff. The promotional offer, which will be supported by an ad campaign, could see
consumers save up to £3,000.
2008-10-10 11:09:18 (Source)
Trendy kids YouTube top the cool chart Results from the CoolBrands survey 2008/09 are in, and YouTube has pipped Google to the post and topped the list in the online media category. The search engine giant comes in at second place, followed by social networking site Facebook and online encyclopaedia Wikipedia.The overall top ten features five online and technology brands, with the iPhone in second place, Apple in third, aud
2008-09-30 15:06:18 (Source)
Yahoo! begins home page overhaulYahoo! is set to begin the dramatic overhaul of its homepage (the most heavily trafficked site on the web) this week, with the Internet media giant under pressure to deliver on year-old promises to transform Yahoo! from a network of more or less insular properties into "starting points" that help consumers navigate their way to the rest of the web.It its simplest sense, Yahoo! is blendin
2008-09-30 16:13:48 (Source)
