Google has added a competitive gaming aspect to its Latitude platform, mashable.com reports. Latitude is Google’s equivalent to Foursquare, allowing users to ‘check in’ to places and see whereabouts their friends are. Until now the program – which is bundled
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26-year-old Glenn Mangham has been jailed for eight months, after admitting to hacking into Facebook, Zdnet.co.uk reports. Despite pleading guilty to the charge of computer misuse, Mangham argued that the reasons behind his hack were good; stating that he wanted
Google has been accused of bypassing internet security protection on Apple devices so that it can gather intelligence for search marketing purposes. BBC News reports that the search giant is suspected of circumventing Apple’s privacy settings, which are designed to restrict cookies, so that it
Google has rushed to the defence of its ‘Search Plus Your World’ feature amid reports that users don’t like it. In a recent US study, many users claimed they simply did not like Google’s introduction of social results in its
China’s number one search engine Baidu has reported profit growth of 77 per cent, washingtonpost.com reports. Baidu has the search engine market share in China following a long and bitter dispute between Google and Chinese authorities over censorship issues. Now,
Microblogging service Twitter has announced it has completed a rollout of its new interface to all platforms. The Inquirer reports the new look Twitter, which was launched in December, is now available for mobile and desktop users of the service.
Twitter is set to launch a ‘self-service’ advertising platform which will make buying adverts on the website easier than ever. The new service will allow those wanting to advertise on the social media website to purchase advertising space without having to deal
A rural village in North Wales has unwittingly shown the importance of clarity in search engine marketing, singletrackworld.com reports. Betws-y-Coed in Conwy is popular amongst tourists, as it is close to the Snowdonia National Park. However tourists looking for information on the village often
Search engine giant Google has released figures which show that 62 per cent of searches for restaurants in the US on Valentine’s Day occurred on “high end mobile devices or tablets”. Furthermore, it could well be that overall searches for
Small businesses around the UK are increasingly heading online to sell, b2businesshub.com reports. New research from recruitment firm peopleperhour.com found that in the last year, the number of small businesses selling products exclusively online has risen by 31 per cent. Furthermore,
