Smartphone use is most dominant between 8-11am

Twice as many adults now use the internet on a smartphone than do on a desktop computer, as smartphones have become the most popular device for going online at every hour of the day.

Verto Analytics, a research company that tracks which devices nearly 5,000 UK adults use to go online, showed that smartphones account for 57% of people who go online, whilst traditional PCs account for 27% and tablets 16%.

Dr. Hannu Verkasalo, Verto Analytics’ CEO, says, “Mobile’s dominance at every hour of the day is a change from recent years when desktop PCs tended to be the most popular device for going online during the middle hours of the day and in the middle part of the evening.”

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In 1996 the creation of Google led to the boom of web pages and the knowledge that you could make money with them. Hence, day after day the competition to reach the first positions in the search engines was growing.

It was then, when SEO was created (Search Engine Optimization). Although for the readers of this blog it is not necessary to define this concept, SEO is based on increasing the number of organic(unpaid) visitors of a website in different search engines.

For this reason, more and more websites and companies are starting to use SEO as their main tool to improve the effectiveness of their websites and make them more appealing to Google. The more visible you are to Google, the more customers your website will have.

It's like a high school popularity contest, the more people pointing you as the best football player, the more people will believe in you and the greater your popularity will be.

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The foreign exchange (forex) market is the largest financial market in the world. This is where fiat currencies are publicly traded like the US Dollar and the Japanese Yen with an average value of $4 trillion being traded daily.

Forex trading has become a popular choice among retail speculators and traders for a number of reasons. The forex market is open 24 hours a day, 5 days a week, and you can trade it with a relatively small amount of capital. It's also extremely liquid, allowing traders to utilise a range of different strategies including day trading, swing trading and longer-term investing.

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Virgin Media launched its brand new kids app with – of course – a giant trampoline bed in Kings Cross, London, off the back of research that said kids love to, erm, jump on beds.

Designed to look like an adult’s bed, the 15 square foot trampoline was put in London to celebrate ‘what it means to be a kid at any age’ and launch the new Virgin TV Kids App.

If I sound miserable, it’s because it’s getting late on a Friday and my to-do list is getting no shorter, and I’m gutted to have missed the chance to jump on the bloody thing.

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