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Tech Digest daily roundup: Google opens its first UK tech centre for disabled

An alarm clock for people who are deaf is on display at the Google tech centre. Image: Google If you design technology with disabled people in mind, you design technology better for everyone. This was the sentiment from Google as it opened its first UK research and development centre dedicated to…

5 December 20225 December 2022 Chris Price News

Half of small business owners don’t know how to market firm

Nearly half of small business owners are completely unaware of how to market their firm, according to new research. The study of 500 leaders of small to medium-sized organisations found 42 per cent have no idea how to create an online profile, which could have a positive effect on promoting their business. And a staggering…

17 May 202113 October 2021 Chris Price Business tips, News

The Digest: Amazon gets into takeaway… and 4 other things people are talking about today

[nextpage title="Next"] Amazon launches a restaurant takeout and delivery service | Engadget "As part of its latest Amazon Local expansion, the internet retailer has launched a new Takeout & Delivery service, allowing customers to browse available local restaurants and order a freshly-cooked meal for pickup or have it delivered to their door." [/nextpage] [nextpage title="Next"]…

8 December 201410 January 2016 Stuart Amazon, Apps, Google, Internet, Sony, The Digest

Twitter to look at your other apps to better target its ads

Twitter is to use the other apps you have downloaded to make its targeted adverts more relevant to you, it has emerged. According to the Bangkok Post quotes Twitter as saying: "We are collecting and occasionally updating the list of apps installed on your mobile device so we can deliver tailored content that you might…

27 November 2014 James O'Malley Twitter, Web 2.0, Websites

Ad-blocking software is ‘the Napster of the advertising industry’

Blocking adverts on the internet is the equivalent of theft, according to the chief executive of PageFair. Sean Blanchfield, who is also the founder of the anti-adblocking company, described adblockers as “like the Napster of the advertising industry”. “[Adblocking] is really concentrated on exactly the kind of people that advertisers are targeting - millennials," he…

9 September 20146 February 2017 Stuart Internet, Uncategorized, Websites

An ad-free internet would cost £140 a year

We all hate those annoying pop-up ads, or the ads that take over the entire page you are trying to read, or the pre-roll advertising you get on videos. But how many people would be willing to pay to get rid of advertising? Not that many, according to the International Business Times. The site reports…

21 August 20146 August 2020 Stuart Google, Internet, YouTube

Facebook buys video ad firm LiveRail

Facebook has bought online video advertising platform LiveRail for a reported $500m (£292m), the Daily Telegraph reports. The Telegraph says that the San Francisco-based company's technology automatically pairs video ads with the videos that appear on many websites, such as…

3 July 201429 September 2020 Stuart Facebook

ASA orders EE to drop 'most reliable broadband' claim

Mobile operator EE must remove the claim that it offers "Britain's most reliable broadband" from its marketing, after the Advertising Standards Authority upheld a complaint from rival BT that the slogan was misleading. The Inquirer tells us that BT filed…

21 May 201427 July 2021 Stuart Broadband, Features, Internet

Mozilla to trial ads in Firefox browser

As Twitter continues to drive many users mad with paid-for "promoted" tweets, Mozilla is looking to join the commercial world with ads in its Firefox browser. Sky News is reporting that Mozilla plans to introduce advertisements on the pages that…

12 May 201422 December 2015 Stuart Firefox, Internet

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Skoda revamps Enyaq EV with improved range of 365 miles

Specialist dating apps exposed 1.5m private user images, protests hit Tesla dealerships

Musk’s xAI buys social media platform X for $33 billion

UK retail sales defy economic gloom, Parcelhero reports

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