Posts Tagged ‘online

Here at the FirstFound Blog, we’ve been predicting the rise of the “Silver Surfers” for a while. Now new research from UKOM suggests that the over-50′s are the fastest growing online group. Over the past 12 months, the number of UK internet users grew from 36.9 million to 38.8 million – and the majority of [...]

In 2006, a micro-blogging website crept onto the Internet and allowed users to share 140 character messages. Nobody paid much attention. Then, as the decade drew to a close, millions of people stood up and took notice. Over the last year, Twitter was the fastest growing website on the internet and businesses have been signing up in their thousands.

If the 1990s was the decade of Microsoft, then the last decade belonged well and truly to Google. As search became the prime source of online traffic and income, Google.com became the internet’s most visited page, and Google became one of the world’s most consistently profitable businesses.

But is the decade of search coming to an end? If it is, what will replace it? And how will businesses need to adapt?

Early data from research firm comScore suggests that yesterday was actually the second busiest online trading day in Internet History. Cyber Monday 2009 broke Christmas shopping online sales records, but is this a seasonal trend or is there a more subtle, on-going shift towards Internet sales? If so, how do you ensure you are getting the most out of your website investment?


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