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YouTube launches citizen reporting centre after Iran elections

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:18:21 GMT

YouTube has launched an online resource to help citizen journalists learn the tricks of the trade after their reporting played a massive role in informing...

IT start-ups get £150m cash injection

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 16:46:18 GMT

The government has unveiled plans to pump in £150m to bridge a funding gap in the venture capital market for tech start-ups. The plans...

Asos profits soar by 93% year on year

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 13:43:00 GMT

Online fashion retailer Asos.com has seen its before tax profits shoot up by 93% year on year.

Pirate Bay's legitimate future secured

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:24:00 GMT

A Swedish games developer is to buy the controversial peer to peer file sharing catalogue company Pirate Bay for £4.72m.

Top 10 Twitter marketing blunders in photos

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:00:00 GMT

Twitter is supposed to be an intuitive technology, easy to get the hang of and proving its worth the more you use it. But on Twitter, as on many social media sites, users seem to exist in one of two camps – those who get it, and those who don’t.

Facebook appointment boosts speculation of IPO

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 09:30:34 GMT

Facebook has appointed David Ebersman, a former executive of US biotechnology company Genentech, as its new chief financial officer. The...

Google mistakes Michael Jackson searches for cyber attack

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 14:56:14 GMT

Google has admitted that it mistook the sudden spike in searches for Michael Jackson last week for an automated cyber attack. As word...

Microsoft to sell Razorfish

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 09:15:00 GMT

Microsoft is planing to sell online marketing agency Razorfish, which it acquired as part of a $6bn takeover of aQuantive in 2007.

Dump Google? Bing is more user-friendly

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 17:22:00 GMT

Bing, the search engine from Microsoft, has a better design than Google, a usability study from Catalyst Group has found.

Websites struggle to meet demand for news on Michael Jackson's death

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:05:00 GMT

Response times by top US news sites were slowed as millions of Michael Jackson fans scrambled for confirmation of rumours of his death.

Habitat blames intern for Twitter abuse

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 15:06:36 GMT

Habitat has blamed an "overenthusiastic intern" for offending customers by using inappropriate methods to promote its products on microblogging site Twitter.

IT Strategies For Navigating the Approaching Economic Downturn

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 14:22:00 GMT

The negative drumbeat in the financial media has been increasing in intensity over the last several quarters. The bursting of the housing market bubble and the subsequent seizing up of the credit markets in the US and across the globe have been the lead stories.

Woolworths to be reborn online today

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 09:12:00 GMT

Retail brand Woolworths is to be revived online today by home shopping firm Shop Direct.

Trading software firm connects to Twitter for market information

Wed, 24 Jun 2009 15:54:00 GMT

Traders are using Twitter to make decisions on buying and selling shares.

Calculating the True Cost of Email

Wed, 24 Jun 2009 11:53:00 GMT

Understanding how much your current email system costs, and how that all adds up, is the key to making changes, and to providing a better service for your users.

Twitter: UK's fastest growing website

Wed, 24 Jun 2009 11:31:50 GMT

Traffic on Twitter has increased 22-fold in the past 12 months, according to Hitwise, which analyses internet usage, making it the fastest growing site in...

Habitat apologises for Twitter abuse

Wed, 24 Jun 2009 11:30:00 GMT

Furniture retailer Habitat has apologised for using the unrest in Iran to help it make sales through microblogging website Twitter.

Habitat uses Iran Twitter tag to sell its products

Tue, 23 Jun 2009 13:25:04 GMT

Furniture store Habitat has been...

HSBC arm is serious about social media

Fri, 19 Jun 2009 16:09:00 GMT

First Direct has launched a social media newsroom to enable customers and the bank to share information.

Vodafone maps holiday plans with Twitter

Fri, 19 Jun 2009 14:59:00 GMT

Planning your holiday? Your "staycation"? Avoid the crowds (or follow them) on Vodafone's UKHols map, a real-time guide to the most popular holiday destinations, based on Twitter feeds.