Every year we like to take a look at the state of mobile usage around the world, what platforms dominate in each country and how this has changed over time. The last 12 months have seen some interesting changes in …
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“R is taking over the world.  It’s R.  There’s no debate anymore.” These are the words of William Beckler, the “Director of Innovation” at lastminute.com; talking at the Big Data Innovation in London earlier this year. R is a programming …
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Popular music video Gangnam Style recently overtook Justin Beiber’s video baby to become the number one most viewed video on Youtube ever. With it hitting this milestone so quickly (in just over four months) we thought it would be interesting …
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New data released by IBM shows that mobile traffic to e-commerce sites now represents an average of 26.5% of all site traffic (up from 15.8% in 2011) and sales from a mobile device are now at 14.1% of total site traffic. Apple …
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The digital world is constantly evolving.  We have recently seen the release of Microsoft’s Windows 8, the iPhone 5 hitting the market, and a fierce escalation in the battle between natural search optimisers and the Google Zoo. We have also …
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Tim Berners Lee once said – “It’s difficult to imagine the power that you’re going to have when so many different sorts of data are available” Well there aren’t many people that are more powerful than the President of the …
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The term ‘LP’ can have a number of meanings; ‘Linguistic Profile’, ‘long play record’, or for those who have studied certain disciplines of mathematics; ‘linear programming’. Linear programming is a method which involves optimising a mathematical function subject to certain …
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As news breaks of Facebook finally achieving the milestone of 1 billion users worldwide, privacy concerns over the way users’ data is leveraged for advertising purposes are back  in the news again (as if they ever went away) following their …
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This morning Facebook announced that on the 14th of September 2012 they finally hit the Billion active user mark.  Unfortunately this does make me 14 days out in my August prediction but an impressive feat by Facebook nonetheless.  Alongside the announcement they released a …
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On Thursday 27th September, Google released an update to their popular search tool, Google Trends. The official announcement  on the ‘Inside Search’ blog stated that this release was not only an update from the previous version, but would also replace …
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