Associated & Northcliffe Media, the consumer arm of Daily Mail & General Trust, is preparing to launch a competitor to US-based discount voucher site Groupon. According to a source familiar with the project, DMGT is currently working on final builds of its “daily deals” platform. DMGT is expected to acquire what’s described as “a very [...]
Google and Apple are gearing up to launch ads on their apps, a strategy which is set to change the advertising landscape for everBritish mobile users will soon find themselves embroiled in the epic confrontation taking shape between Apple and Google. i…
Last week, the media pundit Jeff Jarvis tweeted nine times in 20 minutes about the most fundamental challenge facing the tech-telecoms industrial complex. His first effort caught the flavour of the rest: “AT&T gets rid of unlimited data & ups cancelation but DOESN’T FIX ITS FUCKING NETWORK. #FAIL” AT&T, like many other mobile operators across the [...]
In the poverty-stricken world of news publishing, it’s been a long time since a digital love object appeared over the horizon. Perhaps mobile apps are that love object. Users seem smitten. The Guardian has sold over 70,000 apps at £2.39 a pop in the space of a month. The Telegraph says that sponsorship deals have [...]