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Facebook has announced that 8.7% of its 955m global users are duplicate accounts. A large proportion of those being pages created for pets and those designed for spam.In March, when Facebook last gave an estimate of the number of fake or duplicate accounts, it said the proportion was in the region of 5% or 6%,… Continue reading Facebook admits 83 million profiles are fake

The video games industry across the USA and Western Europe will witness steady growth through to 2015, reaching $15.7 billion and €10.2 billion respectively in total retail value, according to a new Console, Handheld and PC Gaming report from Futuresource Consulting.Across both regions, the packaged games market will start to witness a slow decline in… Continue reading Video Games Industry Driven by Online as Digital Delivery Comes to the Fore

Spending on mobile internet advertising in the US will top all other countries in the world for the first time this year, helping drive mobile ad spending worldwide to $6.43 billion in 2012, show figures released by eMarketer.

Stacey Pratt, head of radio branded content at MediaCom, says commercial needs to work harder to grow it’s hours on digital-only stations to contend with the BBC’s offering…

The National Readership Survey has developed a series of infographics, the first of which (below) details the readership of newspapers and magazines on tablets and e-readers.

BT have today announced that it has successfully met its goal to launch half a million Wi-Fi hotspots in time for the London 2012 games, with almost 200,000 places to log-on being added in the last three months.The hotspots give Londoners, visitors, commercial and private river users access to more than one hundred places to… Continue reading BT hits 500,000 London Wi-Fi hotspots

A day after Sky announced Now TV’s launch on Apple iPad and iPhone, Amazon has responded by following in its footsteps. Amazon Instant is now available to download on iTunes for iPad.By logging in with an Amazon username and password, users are able to purchase any movie or TV show from over 120,000 in the… Continue reading Amazon Instant launches on iPad to challenge Now TV

A massive 9.1 million switched on to BBC One at 7.30pm to watch the swimming finals in the aquatics center (43.2% of the audience share). Viewers were in for a treat as GB’s Michael Jamieson raced to silver in men’s 200m breaststroke.Apart from swimming, the rowing finals and the cycling time trials were also popular… Continue reading TV Overnights: 9.1 million tune in to watch swimming

Listening to radio via a digital platform in terms of weekly reach has increased by 10% year on year, with 24.2 million people now tuning in to radio via a digitally enabled receiver (DAB, DTV, internet) each week (up from 22.1 million in Q2 2011).

Freeview set to revamp programme guide and will bring in 20 HD channels along with more changes.