Red hot US deals site Groupon, which trades as MyCityDeal in the UK, has been telling the Telegraph why the likes of Google and Yahoo! could end up paying as much as $5bn to acquire it.
UK managing director Chris Muhr said Groupon had something that Google didn’t have and that it was a natural fit with a service like Google’s Ad Words. Read More
Interesting post on Gigaom which has done some calculations over how well the London-based Spotify is doing in light of the heavily reported 2009 losses that were out earlier this week.
The analysis suggests that Spotify has done very well indeed in 2010 generating £85m ($134m) in revenues, which are likely to significantly rise as it enters the US and more mobile carriers offer its music streaming service, and as subscriber numbers soar. Read More
Hello, and welcome to this week’s top global viral videos. At the top of the chart is T-Mobile’s beatboxing flashmob, giving passengers at Heathrow something to smile about — which probably makes this ad a world-first in at least one way. It’s now had over 4.3m views on YouTube –pretty good work, yes?
1. The T-Mobile Welcome Back
Watch arriving passengers be given a welcome home to remember at Heathrow Terminal 5. For more info the cast of the ad, visit the T-Mobile Facebook group.
Earlier this year I co-authored the IAB and Microsoft’s Search & Social Media report with the delightful Amy Kean. Included in this I wrote about brands considering social network pages instead of microsites. Benefits include strong SEO performance and potentially improved user experience because people inherently know how to use the likes of Facebook. Read More
Virgin boss Richard Branson is expected to launch an iPad only magazine as early as next Tuesday.
Sounding a bit like a cross between GQ, Wired and Vanity Fair it has been under development since the summer. Read More
This is quite amusing. McDonald’s is attempting to challenge the McJob perceptions (again) that people have about its staff with a campaign called ‘Think Again’.
Here’s how it works: you find an attractive bright graduate who is perceived to be atypical of those employed by McDonald’s and you send her out with a camera to ask the public who they think are the kind of people who work at McDonald’s? The Answers are universally derogatory. Read More
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There was a lot of talk recently about the launch of the new Facebook communication system, encompassing email, Facebook mail and messaging but not much about why they are so keen to keep expanding their product. Facebook is in a position of supreme dominance in the social networking world and moves into well established markets such as email could be seen as taking them away from their core strengths. Read More
Google are carrying out what seems a test of their local results – Google Places – within UK results for “car insurance” today. This will have an impact on the traffic advertisers receive for this high-volume term, which is often used at the start of consumers research cycle.
But is this useful for consumers, and how will it impact brands?
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Acer took the wraps off an interesting addition to the tablet computer market yesterday the Acer Iconia, a 14” dual touch-screen device as it also announced two 10′ tablet computers as well. Read More
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