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Tweet A new survey shows marketing budgets will grow by 1% in 2013, following growth of 3.4% last year, while the growth of social networking and Web 2.0 is less pronounced than in 2011. The 2013 Senior Marketer Monitor, conducted by the Australian Marketing Institute and Colmar Brunton, is based on a survey of 259 [&hellip
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Tweet Big music labels, steep freight costs and import taxes are being blamed for the higher prices Australians pay for everything from software to songs. Global technology giants Apple, Microsoft and Adobe copped a caning on Friday at a federal parliamentary inquiry for slugging Australians up to 80 per cent more than people in other [&hellip
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Tweet Some people can’t stand it, others can’t live without it. Twitter turned seven on Thursday and with more than 200 million active users, the social media platform has no shortage of friends to celebrate with. It’s come a long way since March 21, 2006, when web developer and Twitter creator Jack Dorsey sent the [&hellip
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Tweet Google has added views from some of the world’s tallest mountains to its popular online map service. Armchair explorers were invited to take virtual adventures with members of Google’s Street View team to Aconcagua in South America, Kilimanjaro in Africa, Mount Elbrus in Europe and Mt Everest base camp in Nepal. ‘Whether you’re scoping [&hellip
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Tweet Facebook is preparing to take on Twitter by adopting the messaging service’s iconic hashtag symbol, The Wall Street Journal reports. Users of the globally popular one-to-many messaging service Twitter use # or pound symbols as a hashtag to indicate subjects in tweets. The style is such an entrenched part of the Twitter language that [&hellip