Facebook’s floatation values company at between £53 billion and £59 billion
Facebook has set the share price for its upcoming floatation at between £17.5 ($28) and £21.8 ($35) per share, valuing the company at between £53…
Microsoft opens new chapter with Barnes and Noble’s Nook e-books battle front
Microsoft has invested £185 million ($300 million) in a new digital venture with US bookseller Barnes and Noble to promote their e-book the Nook.The deal…
Olympic officials wake up to the Online World
Olympic officials have woken up to the real online world and admitted that their ban on spectators posting videos and images on websites will be…
Apple’s profits up 91% in first quarter
Apple Inc announced yesterday that its net profit came in at £7.2 billion ($11.6 billion), up from £3.75 billion ($6 billion) in the same period…
UK leads the digital world- is your business winning online sales?
The UK leads the world in most indicators of digital capability- with the internet contributing more to our GDP than to that of any other…
Oracle and Google’s legal copyright trial begins over Java
Oracle claims that Google has violated several of its Java patents and copyrights- with the copyright trial in San Francisco starting today.It is one of…
Google does less good as profits hit new record
Google has reported a 61pc increase in its net income for the first three months of the year and announced plans to split its stock…
Is the Dot Com bubble inflating again?
With the news that the value of Apple Inc’s shares are now more than £375 billion ($600 billion) and Facebook shelling out a billion dollars…
Online advertising rapidily increases in the UK
UK businesses spent £4.78 billion on all forms of online advertising in the UK in 2011, with a 14.4% year-on-year growth the biggest surge since…
We live in interesting times
This week has seen the news that sales of games have overtaken those of films- which themselves have overtaken those of music in the UK-…