Ecommerce analytics firm Profitero has found the construction toy firm is still number one with consumers. LEGO is the brand leading the ‘most wished-for’ product list in the toys & games category online running up to the ...
However, LEGO has strengthened its position in the equivalent US list, and is now the leading toy brand there with 11 products in the US top 100. Hasbro has overtaken LEGO to become the leading brand in the Amazon UK best-selling toys & ...
Bad phone signal ranks alongside the weather and Katie Hopkins for things Brits love moaning about. The best and worst UK cities have been ranked based on their mobile phone network performance in the second half of 2015. Independent ...
Tags: Mobile phone, Best city
Retail analytics company Euclid announces the addition of three new executives to an already prestigious team. The company has hired a Chief Financial Officer (CFO), Chief Marketing Officer (CMO), and Senior Vice President (SVP) of ...
Apple has acquired Topsy, a social analytics firm, for a rumoured $200m. The company specialises in crunching Twitter data, but Apple will not reveal its plans for the start-up. "Apple buys smaller technology companies from time time, and ...
Apple has acquired Topsy, a social media analytics company that focuses on a range of data from Twitter, according to a recent Wall Street Journal report. Apple paid more than US$200 million for Topsy, the report said. The company ...
Tags: Apple, Acquire, Social Media Analytics
Costa has signed an agreement with big data analytics firm Applied Predictive Technologies (APT) to license APT's Test & Learn Management System. Costa will use the system to test strategic initiatives across its network of over 1,600 ...
Tags: Costa, Analytics Firm APT
As local digital media wrestles with the question of how to successfully monetize mobile, a potential new disruptor is literally mapping out a claim to that space. Indoor marketing — the practice of targeting, following and serving ...
The recent commercial history of market research organisation Nielsen is a good example of how expectations and capabilities have changed radically in the world of analytics. Retailers employing Nielsen to provide services such as retail ...
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IBM is to acquire Dublin-based analytics software provider The Now Factory. Financial terms were not disclosed. Further reading IBM to splash $1bn on Linux for cloud computing and big data US government agency selects IBM in 10 year ...
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Torbay Council has selected business intelligence (BI) vendor Logi Analytics to replace its BI system, enabling it to cut costs and improve functionality. The council's previous BI system was used to run a range of daily, weekly and ...
Tags: Logi Analytics
Microsoft got some good news Sunday as metrics company Net Applications said Windows 8′s user share in August is now larger than Vista's at the same point in the latter's post-launch timeline. Windows 8′s user share of all PCs ...
Tags: Computer Products, Windows 8, Vista
Apple faces a threat from an unexpected quarter: Chinese developers crafting Android apps, an analytics firm said today. Chinese developers build nearly two-thirds of the mobile apps used by Chinese consumers — an even higher ...
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Samsung's army of Android mobile devices have finally overtaken Apple's iOS in terms of global mobile web usage, according to a survey carried out by web analytics firm StarCounter. In June 2013, claims the survey, Samsung bounded ahead ...
Tags: Mobile Device, Web Use, Samsung
Microsoft's Windows 8 is now a more popular operating system than the reviled Windows Vista, eliminating a source of embarrassment as Microsoft's latest OS slowly continues to gather steam. According to?Net Applications' NetMarketshare ...
Tags: Windows 8, Vista, Computer Products, software, Microsoft