Microsoft in £4 billion online marketing writedown
Microsoft has written down the value of an online advertising firm it bought five years ago by £4 billion ($6.2 billion).Microsoft bought Aquantive for $6.3…
Companies need bold action to grow survey finds
The latest survey from the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) finds that while the UK economy remains weak- businesses are growing.Director general John Longworth called…
Waterstones teams up with Amazon’s to sell Kindle book reader
In a surprising development UK bookseller Waterstones is to sell Amazon’s Kindle book reader.Only last week we posted in Digital book sales increase by 54pc…
eBay sales targeted by HMRC tax evasion
Online eBay sales traders are the latest group to be targeted by the HMRC against tax evasion.People who trade on websites such as eBay have…
Samsung at the top of the smartphone sales charts
Samsung Electronics has overtaken Nokia to become the world’s largest maker of mobile phones.Nokia took the top spot in 1998 from Motorola, but in the…
UK leads the digital world- is your business winning online sales?
The UK leads the world in most indicators of digital capability- with the internet contributing more to our GDP than to that of any other…