Posts tagged with 'Research'
Revenues from online creative content across Europe will reach €8.3 billion (£5.5 billion) by 2010, according to an EU study. The spread of broadband, mobile and the adoption of digital gadgets will drive the growth.
The research, titled 'Interactive Content and Convergence: Implications for the information Society' assessed the outlook for the online content market, identifying growth areas and potential 'roadblocks' for the market.
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by Graham Charlton
26 January 2007 17:30pm
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The results of a consumer email survey suggest that, though many consumers rely on email for shopping news and ideas, consumers are becoming savvier in the management of their inboxes
Return Path’s third annual Holiday Email Survey looks into the responses of 2,400 US and Canadian consumers in November and December 2006.
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by Graham Charlton
25 January 2007 12:41pm
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One of the main fears of corporate blogging is the risk to reputation and the damage that employee bloggers can do to their own company.
If a firm does choose to allow employees to blog in work time, it is my experience that many legal and HR advisors advocate having a restrictive and detailed blogging policy to protect the firm.
A danger with this approach is that if you set up such a blogging policy, it will become so tight that no employee would dare to blog...
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by Justin Patten
19 January 2007 16:12pm
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Global online sales of digital music nearly doubled to $2bn in 2006 but that growth will slow this year, according to new research from the London-based International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI).
The IFPI said those sales now made up 10% of music sales across all formats but that the growth had not yet reached a significant enough number to offset the decline in sales of physical formats like CD - the so-called 'holy grail'.
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by Robert Andrews
18 January 2007 15:25pm
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The popularity of two of Google's key Web 2.0-style applications has overtaken those of rival portals in recent weeks, according to the latest data.
Google Calendar last week overtook MSN's competing offering and is due to beat even Yahoo!'s sector-leading calendar in the next couple of months, after the Mountain View outfit's schedule tool surged in popularity, Hitwise statistics show.
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by Robert Andrews
04 January 2007 17:20pm
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Happy New Year from everyone at E-consultancy. We’ve picked out a few interesting stories that came out over the holiday season, in case you missed them…
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by Richard Maven
02 January 2007 11:02am
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Internet monitoring group Hitwise has declined to comment on reports it has put itself up for sale for a whopping £180m.
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by Richard Maven
01 December 2006 12:57pm
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Miniclip, the world’s largest games site, is preparing to move into the mobile market as part of an expansion plan which will also see it targeting the Far East.
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by Richard Maven
15 November 2006 11:48am
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More than 50% of households in the 25 EU countries now have access to the web, according to a new report.
The survey was carried out by Eurostat, the Statistical Office of the EU, and the findings confirm the growth of broadband connections. The data is from the first quarter of 2006.
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by Graham Charlton
14 November 2006 14:02pm
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Around one in four Christians are unsure whether they should buy products online, or say they shouldn’t, according to a poll by
ChristiaNet.com
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Seventy five per cent of people surveyed by the portal were pro-internet shopping, but others declared the activity to be non-Christian.
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by Richard Maven
09 November 2006 15:52pm
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