The BBC’s plans for “the first digital Olympics”? 24 simultaneous live streams across 4 screens.
The BBC has given the biggest indication yet of what its digital offering will look like for the London Olympics, and The Next Web was on hand yesterday
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iZettle is one of the European companies doing what Jack Dorsey’s Square is doing in the United States: trying
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According to a study conducted by Fishburn Hedges and Echo Research, as many as 18 million UK Internet users have turned to social media
Read More →Twitter UK marks its first anniversary by reaching 10m active users, 80% of them mobile
A year ago, a service called Twitter, which had taken the web and mobiles by storm, opened up shop in London as part of its global expansion. A year
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You may have encountered Rob Shoesmith before. He first made headlines in 2009 after the then 27-year-old binman from Coventry, England, submitted one of the first
Read More →Personal data assistant Dashlane launches in the UK to speed up online shopping
Dashlane, the personal data assistant has launched in the UK to help make online purchases more efficient. The application is designed to give
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Once upon a time in startup land, two entrepreneurs sat round a table thinking of how they could make the world
Read More →The UK top 100 comes of age with the launch of the Official Streaming music Chart
The music chart industry is about to catch up with user habits online next week with the launch of the UK’s first Official Streaming Chart. The new Top 100 rundown, which
Read More →Barclays’ money transfer app Pingit passes 500,000 downloads 3 months after launch
Back in February, UK bank Barclays launched Pingit, a potentially game-changing app that lets users send and receive money using just their mobile phone number. And today the British
Read More →Coming Soon! TaskRabbit prepares for its London launch
For the month of April, I made a 30-day promise. To make life easier, I would use a combination of virtual
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