No love lost between the Net's big names
As Valentine's Day approaches with all of its romantic trappings, the online world has been abuzz with relationship advice - when it comes to business partnerships and offensive moves between our favourite online players that is. Don't let rose-tinted glasses cloud your vision, enjoy a clear view of the last seven days worth of digital news with the bigmouthmedia newsletter.
Google won't be expecting many Valentine's cards from its peers this week, as the Mountain View giant continues to prove itself keen to quash competition. This week saw
Google unveiling plans for a
tablet to rival Apple's iPad and changes to
Gmail that will challenge Facebook and its command of the social networking field.
However, Facebook won't be quaking in its boots yet - the ubiquitous site has
signed a new ad deal with Microsoft. What's more, the social networking site has certainly been stealing the heart of mobile web users - a new survey has revealed
Facebook as a key driver in persuading people to use the internet functionalities of their smartphones.
This week also saw Google release
software updates for the Nexus One - its long awaited 'superphone'. Meanwhile the search giant's
Super Bowl ad raised some tricky YouTube questions and the Mountain View giant came to an agreement with the US Government in regard to
analysing the recent Google cyber attacks too.
The last seven days brought some
good news for the ad industry as analysts reported profit while
Microsoft revealed new Bing strategies to combat the mighty power of
Google. However,
Twitter was forced to take a defensive move and reset targeted accounts after a phishing scam swept the boards.
Get to the heart of the matter with the bigmouthmedia newsletter, a digital missive that leaves the sweet nothings aside but always packs a digital punch.
Google to use Gmail to challenge FacebookGoogle will today announce some big changes to its social media strategy. It is believed these will include changes to Gmail that will allow users to post messages in a similar way to Twitter or Facebook.
Facebook drives mobile web boostA new study has revealed that Facebook is leading the way when it comes to mobile web use, with the social networking site gathering more hits on the go than search king Google.
US Government agency to analyse Google attacksIn an unprecedented meeting, the world's largest web search company, Google, will be coming to an information-sharing agreement with the National Security Agency, a powerful digital surveillance department of the United States government.