Tweet We’ve all seen the gloomy stories: the public is saving, not buying. Department stores can’t survive. Since we’re about to enter the traditional peak of the Retail season, we thought it time to take a look into our data-laden crystal ball and see what the numbers had to say.  Firstly, the sector grew. In [...]

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Tweet Occupy Wall Street has been a force of nature of late, springing up in more than 100 US cities, only to sprout wings and appear in more than 1500 locales globally. a $83.00USD Occupy iPad Cover. Widespread interest like this show up online, as Search results and Downstream Websites – where people went and what [...]

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Tweet Last week Amazon released the Kindle Fire, offering full colour, a larger screen and a great price – if you’re not in Australia. Amazon, despite being a number one Australian shopping destination in the Hitwise category Department Stores – Shopping and Classifieds, is not releasing the Kindle in Australia at this stage. This hasn’t [...]

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Tweet Albert Einstein apparently said ‘the only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once’. This was no doubt useful when formulating the general theory of relativity. It seems Albert was right when it comes to the way we use Social Networks too, otherwise we’d be updating our business colleagues on un-professional [...]

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Tweet If you’re an Australian who used a search engine in the last week, there’s an good chance you used Google. If that was since last week, there’s also a chance you noticed the big blue arrow, announcing that Google Plus was now publicly open for business. In the US this saw them shoot up [...]

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Tweet In the last few weeks we’ve spent a lot of time in the media space, specifically the online media space: who is watching what and reading where. Usual suspects figure highly – News sites, Entertainment sites and even YouTube, sitting somewhere in between. In particular, we’ve had a lot of interest lately in how [...]

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Tweet Not quite, but PM and now MP Kevin Rudd is almost a tenth of the way there. At the time of writing, @KruddMP has 1,002,292 Twitter followers, @KimKardashian 9,695,654. Now a Twillionaire as a result, KRudd has outperformed Julia Gillard almost ten-fold when it comes to Twitter followers (126,667) and has 25 times as [...]

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