As of the next update to Google’s Chrome browser, (version 56) which will release by the end of this month, and the newest version of Firefox, browsers will warn users when entering password details on a page which is not served via HTTPS. It won’t prevent people from entering their details on non-secure sites, but […]
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According to Google, the majority of people are more likely to search for information using a mobile device. It’s certainly no secret that a sites mobile friendliness is important when it comes to ranking in search engine results, but in the near future, that will take on a whole new dimension. According to a Google […]
Finally, after what seems like years (in fact it has been years), Google has announced the release of the newest, and last, Penguin algorithm update. It’s the last one, because as of this update, Penguin has gone from a filter that was occasionally run on search results (the last time was in 2014), to part […]
Google has just unveiled its smart messaging app, Google Allo, featuring the first preview of their digital assistant in a late entry to attempts by various companies (see Apple’s Siri & Microsoft’s Cortana) to create a ore personal and intuitive way for people to interact with their devices. According to the official Google blog, the […]
According to a report published earlier this month by global media network company Carat, advertising spend on digital media could become as much as 27% of the total global media spending this year. Their forecast on total advertising expenditure across all media shows total advertising spend (based on data from 59 countries worldwide) is expected […]
Microsoft recently made a remarkably large bid to claim space in the social networking sphere with their proposal to purchase LinkedIn, (the worlds largest professional social network) for over $26 billion. The largest acquisition deal ever made by Microsoft, analysts believe that the deal signals a further move away from the software model that has […]
In a landmark decision last week, the Supreme Court of Appeal upheld an earlier High Court decision overturning a bid by Cochrane Steel to prevent a competitor from bidding on their brand name in Google Ads. The original ruling by the High Court found that the bidding on the keyword “ClearVu” (a brand owned by […]
Internet Explorer 8, first released 5 years ago, is still one of the most frequently used web browsers, installed on more than 20% of PCs. It also still accounts for around 6% of all web traffic. (I specifically avoided the word popular in the opening sentence, because in most cases, it’s probably just that that […]
Well, it isn’t the freshest rumour around, but more recent speculation on a potential takeover bid by Google caused Twitter’s stock to rise almost 4.8%, ending on a 52 week high. It seemed that this followed recent gossip in the financial industry that Twitter had reportedly hired advisors from leading investment and consulting firm, Goldman […]
As technology advances in even bigger leaps from year to year, it becomes easier to get more of the world’s population online. Internet penetration – that is, the number of people who have access to the internet – is currently sitting at about 42%, or 3.01 billion of the 7.2 billion people in the world. […]
