Nov
29

Tablets Account for Greater Share of Online e-Commerce

Mashable.com features an interesting infographic (produced by Vertic) this week on tablet usage  in the US.  It highlights current trends and forecasts, which may well shape the future of the mobile and e-commerce markets. What does the tablet market look like today? 20% of all mobile e-commerce sales comes from tablets 60% of tablet owners [...]

Nov
14

Yell Press Release: Lenders Memorandum

In its announcement on 8 November 2011, Yell mentioned that, in order to ensure that the Group has an appropriate level of covenant headroom to deliver its new strategy successfully, it had begun speaking to its lenders. In connection with that process, Yell will today present its proposals to its lenders. These are described in [...]

Nov
10

Yell Appointed to Partner with UK Trade & Investment (UKTI) on ‘Open to Export’ Initiative

Yell’s latest partnership with UK Trade & Investment (UKTI) is bringing them a step closer to realising the objective of their new strategy; to transform the Group from leading supplier of print and online advertising for SMEs to leader in the emerging local eMarketplace for consumers and SMEs. This new initiative, which has been named  [...]

Nov
09

Yell In Talks With Banks To Ease It’s Debt Burden

Interesting article posted on thisislondon.co.uk regarding the debt situation with Yell with comments from Yell’s Chief Financial Officer and CEO: Yell today raised fears that it could breach the terms of its £2.6 billion of loans as the Yellow Pages publisher admitted it is holding talks with banks in a bid to ease its debt [...]

Nov
03

Yell’s New Free App – Now With Consumer Reviews

Yell has announced that its free new App is now available on the App store.  Following the success of its first App which had over 1 million downloads, Yell has improved it’s app to enables users for the first time to view current consumer reviews and create new reviews of local businesses directly within the [...]

Nov
02

Creative Way to Recycle Your Old Telephone Directories

Kristiina Lahde found an artistic use for old telephone directories.  Her masterpiece called ‘Hive’ and was on exhibition at Oakville Galleries in Gairloch Gardens in The Birds and The Bee. So if your new telephone directory has arrived and you’re wondering how to recycle your old directories – here’s one idea, if you have plenty [...]