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, […]
What’s Happening at Qmee Right Now?
At Qmee we are now at that very exciting stage for a ‘start up’ where we are recruiting key team members that will be so instrumental to our future. These are the guys and girls who will shape the values that are in our company DNA, and become the face (smiling, welcoming and confident!) of […]
Breaking Down Google’s Revenue
Google’s revenue from advertising was $37.9 billion last year. This great infographic from our friends at Word Stream illustrates the breakdown of the top 10 spending industries with their keywords and cost per click (CPC). It’s clear to see that within a highly saturated market, bidding more for a word or phrase can generate sales but as […]
Internet Advertising: the same but different
Over the next few months we’d like to share more info with you about Qmee, our revolutionary new internet advertising service. We’ll keep you posted about our launch in spring and our progress from then on. Our idea is simple. We’re looking to change what ordinary internet users get out of their everyday online behaviour. […]