David Moth
Zynga has confirmed that it plans to move into online gambling.
The games company said earlier today that it is in talks with potential partners about adding real money gambling to its current range of freemium games.
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by David Moth
20 January 2012 16:32pm
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Expedia has launched a new crowdsourced deals feature on its US site.
Last-Minute Deals automatically identifies the best deals found by other travellers for hotels rooms and flights. It is done anonymously in the background so doesn’t require any additional action by Expedia customers.
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by David Moth
20 January 2012 13:33pm
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On Wednesday several major websites, including Wikipedia and Reddit, took their services offline in protest at the proposed SOPA bill.
For Wikipedia, the self-imposed blackout actually had the affect of increasing traffic as people logged on to see what the fuss was about.
In a nutshell, SOPA is an attempt to crackdown on internet piracy by shutting down sites that host copyrighted material.
Opponents say that it goes too far, as sites that link to other sites that host pirated material can also be shutdown, and threatens free speech.
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by David Moth
20 January 2012 12:04pm
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China is on track to surpass 1bn mobile connections in Q1 of 2012, with market penetration currently estimated at 72%.
The latest data from Wireless Intelligence shows that China ended 2011 on 973.7m connections, an increase of around 16% year-on-year.
The growth has largely been driven by 3G connections, which surpassed 200m in Q4 and accounted for 22% of the total by year-end.
In 2011 3G accounted for 80% of new connections in China, an estimated 26.8m out of a total of 34.2m.
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by David Moth
20 January 2012 10:47am
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Yesterday it was confirmed that Kodak has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in New York; the final chapter in a long and painful fall from market dominance in the 1980s.
This humiliating 'Kodak moment' came about largely because the camera brand failed to embrace digital technology.
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by David Moth
19 January 2012 16:43pm
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Foursquare has added another new feature to its desktop service – restaurant menus.
The update, which uses technology from start-up SinglePlatform, adds 13m food items from 250,000 restaurants in major US cities.
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by David Moth
19 January 2012 13:31pm
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PayPal’s mobile payment system has gone live at 51 Home Depot stores in the US.
The eBay-owned company has also reported that its mobile payment volume reached $4bn in 2011.
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by David Moth
19 January 2012 12:30pm
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Facebook has launched new timeline apps through Open Graph, offering users another way of sharing what they are doing with friends.
As part of the announcement last night it launched 60 new apps from brands such as Ticketmaster, Pinterest and TripAdvisor.
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by David Moth
19 January 2012 10:54am
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Mobiles and tablets accounted for 12% of all paid search clicks in the UK during December, according to new data from Marin Software.
This represents a 49% increase in click share as a percentage of the total since October.
The Quarterly UK Online Advertising Report found that, over the same period, spend share of mobile and tablet devices increased by 29% to a 7.5% share of overall search spend.
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by David Moth
19 January 2012 09:39am
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Doritos’ Super Bowl ads will be created by the public again this year, with the overall winner chosen by a Facebook vote.
The Pepsico brand has used user generated ads during the Super Bowl several times since 2007, and the ‘Crash The Super Bowl’ commercials have proven to be extremely popular.
Doritos ads came joint first and fourth in the 2011 USA Today Super Bowl Ad Meter.
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by David Moth
18 January 2012 16:45pm
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