Aug 21, 2015 | Digital marketing skills
Were the Luddites wrong after all? A new report indicates that technology has created more jobs than it has destroyed in the past 144 years by shifting work to other areas. The UK study, from financial services company Deloitte, examined census data for England and...
Aug 5, 2015 | Digital marketing skills, Social media, Twitter marketing
A new hashtag campaign on Twiter aims to shatter the myth than engineering is a male-only profession, encouraging female engineers to highlight their achievements on the social network. It began when Isis Anchalee, a 22-year-old platform engineer in San Francisco a...
Jul 29, 2015 | Digital marketing skills, Regulation
Children from the UK could soon be able to delete any embarrassing online content that could affect future employment or relationships, following the launch of a new campaign. The campaign called ‘iRights,’ seeking to protect children’s presence...
Jul 15, 2015 | Digital marketing skills, UK
More than half of employers fear they will not be able to recruit enough high-skilled workers, including the technology and digital sector, according to a new survey by the CBI. The survey shows demand for highly skilled workers is particularly strong in high-growth,...
Jul 8, 2015 | Digital marketing skills, Mobile
The BBC is to give away one million new Micro:bit computers to 11- and 12-year-old children across the UK. The BBC micro-bit has been produced in collaboration with a string of partners including Barclays, Samsung and Microsoft. The pocket-sized, codeable computer was...
Jul 7, 2015 | Digital marketing skills, Facebook marketing, Social media
A former employee at Facebook has lifted the cover of the social network’s mysterious ‘Little Red Book’ that it gives to staff. Ben Barry, a former designer at Facebook, has published a series of scans from the company’s “little red book”, which he created during his...
Jun 23, 2015 | Digital marketing skills
The UK Tech industry is more ethnically diverse than Silicon Valley and has greater female representation, according to new research. The study, from newly launched firm Wayra explores the UK startup scene in detail. The UK start-up ecosystem is also four times more...
Jun 22, 2015 | Digital marketing skills
Digital agency Amaze has partnered with a new type of creative school in Manchester, aimed at preparing 14-19 year olds for the modern digital workplace. Manchester Creative Studio (MCStudio) is the first of its kind to specifically prepare young people aged 14-19 for...
Jun 19, 2015 | Digital marketing skills, Online advertising, Online video
Could Hull be home to the next Larry Page and Sergey Brin? Brothers Andrew and Ash Lewis and their young team have created a brand new online advertising platform, Flomigo. In an attempt to bridge a gap in the market, the Hull internet Tigers have launched a full...
Jun 17, 2015 | Content marketing, Digital marketing skills, Facebook marketing
Apple is looking to hires editors for its news app, as the electronics giant looks to rely on human judgement rather than algorithms for content curation. This week, Apple posted a job listing looking to hire editors for its new Apple News product, providing a clue on...
Jun 10, 2015 | Digital marketing skills, Mobile
An all-female group of IT experts, engineers and scientists will take over the Google Campus at the heart of London’s Tech City on Saturday (June 13) teaching schoolkids to build smartphone apps in a Guinness World Record bid. Led by Brunel University London lecturer...
Jun 4, 2015 | Digital marketing skills, Marketing through gaming
Avonbourne College has won AOL UK’s YouBuild competition. The Bournemouth based girls Academy have created a website, which will help aspiring entrepreneurs in developing countries. YouBuild was a competition created to engage and inspire school children to...
May 28, 2015 | Digital marketing skills
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella heads Juniper Research’s newly-released rankings of the most influential executives in the technology space, followed by recently promoted Apple’s Chief Design Officer, Jony Ive. Microsoft & Apple Lead The rankings, which are based on...
May 26, 2015 | Digital marketing skills, Unilever - Research, tips and news for marketers
Unilever Ghana has deployed a mobile app to help the company manage its inventories through precision sales and distribution of products. LeverEdge is a custom-made software installed on smartphones and other hand-held devices of Unilever sales force. Using GPS...
May 20, 2015 | Digital marketing skills
As concerns rise over literacy levels in the UK, it seems that digital platforms are having a positive effect on children’s reading habits, according to a new report. The study, study published by the National Literacy Trust, indicates that Girls in the UK have more...
May 19, 2015 | Digital marketing skills, Social media
Facebook may be the most popular social network in the world, but CEOs of big companies are taking to Twitter to write their views, according to a new report. The survey, conducted by PR firm Weber Shandwick, indicates CEOs from the world’s 50 most lucrative companies...
Apr 29, 2015 | Digital marketing skills
The average British worker is spending over eleven weeks a year commuting to and from their work place, rising significantly over the past 10 years despite increased opportunities to work remotely, according to new research. The findings from space management software...
Apr 21, 2015 | Digital marketing skills, Mobile, USA
A $1.3 billion iPad school project in the US is in turmoil, amid complaints that the scheme was incomplete and let pupils bypass security. The schools, based around Los Angeles, have sent letters to Apple and its project partners (including publisher Pearson and...
Apr 10, 2015 | Digital marketing skills, Social media
LinkedIn has bought US online learning business Lynda for $1.5bn (£1.1bn), marking the professional networking site’s biggest acquisition to date. Lynda was founded in 1995 by technical skill instructional book author Lynda Weinman and co-founder Bruce Heavin,...
Apr 2, 2015 | Content marketing, Digital marketing skills
Programmatic is driving recruitment for UK publishers, alongside a focus on more ‘traditional’ roles including editorial and business development, according to new research. The latest figures from the Association of Online Publishers’ seventh Organisation Census...
