OFT cracks down on leading online retailers
In a crackdown on leading online retailers the Office of Fair Trading has found that more than a third could be breaking UK consumer laws.A…
Facebook UK makes loss
Facebook’s UK business made a loss last year.Facebook also joins the list of those companies which some may accuse of tax dodging as they paid…
Bogus drug websites raided
A global raid on the sale of fake and unlicensed medicines by websites has found £6.5 million of drugs.UK drug officials took part in a…
ICO data watchdog starts cookie crackdown
Websites which do not comply with new red tape on collecting cookie data from online customers will be contacted within weeks by the Information Commissioner’s…
Libraries to get digital transformation
The UK government is looking at ways to transform libraries and make the borrowing of ebooks more commonplace.Culture Minister Ed Vaizey has asked publisher William…
Murdoch loses his pay per view content war with Google
After 2 years Rupert Murdoch has finally woken up to the fact that hiding his Times Online content beyond a pay wall means that not…
Asos sees big increase in online sales
The online fashion retailer Asos saw a big increase in demand from US customers- which helped sales to grow 31% in the three months to…
Sales of digital fiction book soar Publishers Association says
A huge increase in the value of digital book sales in the UK has been announced by the Publishers Association (PA).The value of digital fiction…
Free v PPC search engine click through ratio- latest research
New research has published the latest search engine click through ratio which compares the number of people clicking on the “free” organic results against the…
Amazon creates 2,000 new UK jobs
Amazon is to create more than 2,000 permanent jobs in the UK over the next two years.The US based company will officially open a new…