- Yahoo hire ex-Google employee Marissa Mayerto hopefully rejuvenate the company. Here’s a brief history of the new CEO.
- Big step in online retail – Amazon push for same-day delivery.
- Apple remove products from EPEAT – ‘green’ certification registry, then uncharacteristically re-join.
- Living Social begins to sell physical goods with new online retail shop.
- Qantas launches new travel site powered by social media, Hooroo.
- Ah yes, The Shire. Results from the twitter machine revealed viewers overwhelmingly negative feeling towards the show. Read more here.
- More than 75% of the world now has accessto a mobile phone.
- With the vast majority of new subscriptions coming from developing countries.
- These are the 15 highest growth countries on Facebook.
- 119m tablets will be sold in 2012 of which 70% will be iPads, according to this research.
- The eyes have it. Eye-tracking is on the increase with FMCG brands.
- Kronopedia – iPad application contains every important artist and personality, each period and every movement of Art history, by dynamically sourcing and quoting information, texts, images and resources from Wikipedia. Nice.
- Fast vs. Fast – Volkswagen Golf R vs. Speed Rubik’s Cube.