Qmee Comes to Safari and Internet Explorer Updates!
We thought it was time for another update from us – and we have news! Our developers are always working none-stop, carrying out little tweaks and generally being obsessed with improving Qmee – just call us perfectionists. We are pleased to inform you that we now have a new version of Qmee for Internet Explorer […]
Money Saving Tips for Parents
(Image: Family Portraits, a Creative Commons Attribution (2.0) image from vonderauvisuals’s photostream) You’ve heard it countless times from everybody you know, and probably some people you don’t know that well as well, babies are expensive. So here at Qmee we’ve listened to our nearest and dearest and compiled the best and most popular money saving […]
5 All Time Best Football Transfer Bargains
We decided to have a little fun this week. The past 2 weeks have seen a lot of commotion around the beautiful game known as Football. The great Manchester United controversially bowed out of the Champions League at the hands of Spanish giants Real Madrid. Michael Laudrop showed wisdom beyond his years guiding Swansea City, […]
How to Enable Qmee on Google Chrome
Struggling to get Qmee on Google Chrome working for you? Well you’re in luck. As well as being relatively straight forward, we’re a helpful bunch. First of all, check whether you have something like this in your toolbar. Can you see it? Qmee is already installed. Hooray! Step 1 – Go to Qmee.com Step 2 […]
The World’s Top 5 Most Generous Techies
With the ability to donate any earnings direct to charity, it’s easy to see that we’re into giving at Qmee. The simple and kind deed of giving not only benefits the people who receive, but also leaves a glowing warmth in the hearts of those that give. Culture of giving in technology However, not all […]
Monday Mashup: Superfast Internet, Google Maps for iOS and Retirement
Netflix ranks Google Fiber as the “most constantly fast ISP in America” Google’s recently released experience, Fibre, which offers superfast broadband speeds up to 1Gps to residents of Kansas City, has been ranked as the constantly fastest ISP in America by popular video on demand service Netflix. Netflix has a vested interest in improving America’s […]
Monday Mashup: Apple Maps leaves users stranded, Apple and Google team up and PayPay mobile payments triple
Apple iOS 6 Maps Leaves Users stranded for 24 hours in Australian Outback The latest chapter in Apple’s comedic venture into the mapping world has seen an Australian police force warning people against using the ill fated application. In an unfortunate turn of events, Apple Maps puts a town called Mildura 70km away from it’s […]
The Qmee Promise: Privacy
Our whole premise is built upon putting real people first. We understand the growing concerns around privacy and want to make it clear that what we’re building is, in some ways, an answer to that. As a young company, we don’t have the demands of bigger companies, so we can make sure that the only […]
Monday Mashup: Struggling Families, Open Internet
One in four families struggles to break even every month The woeful state of British consumer’s financial situation is becoming even more poignant according to the latest research by uSwitch.com. The report states at least 11million Britons are struggling to break even. It also found that families were making cuts on the most fundamental purchases […]
Qmee Update November 2012
It’s been an exciting time at Qmee. We’re now well underway with the beta launch of our product, with a healthy number of users now testing and providing feedback that we couldn’t be more grateful for. Because of this, our content is getting stronger, our adverts are becoming more relevant and the overall experience of […]
Monday Mashup – Black Fridays Sales Top $1billion, Print a Mini-Me and the Battle for the Living Room
E-Commerce Spending On Black Fridays Tops $1B For The First Time; Amazon Is The Most Visited Retailer If growing online sales of heavily discounted consumables are an indicator of consumer confidence, we might be heading out of the depths of the dire economic situation that has blighted us of late. comScore is reporting that retail […]
Friday Tech, Money & Business: Money, Mobile & Movement
‘Savvy shopping’ spurs Sainsbury’s profits Supermarket giant, Sainsbury’s, posted a healthy pre-tax profit of £405million this past 6 months, a 2.5% rise on last. Like-for-like sales grew 1.7%, with the grocer attributing success to their Brand Match campaign that reaches out to Britain’s ever growing market of ‘savvy-shoppers’. Faced with a struggling economic situation and […]
Friday Tech, Money & Business: Bad Lending, Mobile Paying and Big Giving
Almost 40% of Pay Day Loans Used to Buy Food According to a report from the consumer watchdog, almost half of all payday loan customers are struggling to fulfill their most basic needs, with almost 40% of them using the interest rich money to buy food, a plight that has the potential to damage society […]
Friday Tech, Money & Business: $10million Shave, Track Your Privacy and a Bad Apple
$10 Million Shave Club: Discount Razor Service Is a Hit With Investors You may remember the Dollar Shave Club from such viral videos such as ‘Our Blades Are F***ing Great’ which amassed over 7 million views on YouTube. Although the quality of the humor was unquestionable, we were yet to see whether the business could […]
Friday Tech, Money & Business: Tech Wars Heat Up
Apple and Amazon Fall Short of Expectations as Tablet Wars Heat Up There was much to stoke the fiery rivalry between Apple and Amazon this week. 2 days before both their quarterly earnings reports were due to be filed, Apple released iPad Mini, a tablet aimed at capturing the same demographic as Amazon’s Kindle Fire. […]
Friday Tech, Money & Business: Everything is Falling!
Red Bull Stratos Shatters Records – And Traditional Notions of Marketing Although unavoidable news, we felt it impossible to have a round up of weekly news without including one of the most talked about marketing events of the history of modern business – Red Bull Stratos. Not only did the Austrian dare devil Felix Baumgartner […]
Friday Tech, Money & Business: Google’s Profit, eBay Redesign & Inequality
How much do Google and Facebook profit from your data? Hot on the back of our blog regarding how much you are worth to Google, a just-released privacy add-on for Firefox and Chrome aims to tell users the value exchange that goes on between them and the sites they frequently visit. Highlighting the fact that […]
Friday Tech, Money & Business Round-Up
Check out this week’s interesting tech, money & business discussions: 3D printing for fun and profit: a serious hobby grows up Gradually making it’s way into the mainstream, 3D printing is beginning to catch the eye of technologists world wide. The promise of product production at the push of a button is becoming closer to […]
How Much are you Worth to Google?
All the news lately has been about the iPhone 5 so we thought we would take a look at something different – just how much are you worth to Google and other search engines? First off, some Google stats: on July 19th, 2012 Google Inc announced it’s second quarter 2012 results with revenues up 35% […]
New Faces and Team Members
It’s been a while since Qmee’s last post as it’s been quite a busy time here. Last time we updated you, we were looking for new team members to join to drive Qmee forwards. And we have grown! In addition to Nick and Jonathan who you are used to hearing from, we now have Damon, […]