What do you do when you’re bored and are looking to spend some time online? Most people’s destination of choice is usually an entertainment website of some sort to whittle the hours away. Not so in January, though. In 2011, according to Experian Hitwise, social networking websites became the most popular destination for searchers for Read Blog…

Internet valuations are on the rise. In case you haven’t heard, Twitter is currently being valued at approximately $10billion, and now social Q&A website Quora is commanding valuations of $1billion. But what exactly is Quora, and why on earth is it being valued so highly? Quora is a question and answer service that is winning Read Blog…

No word of a lie, we’re convinced we’ve seen more and more Ocado vans frequenting our street lately! It makes sense, too, as the latest noises coming out of Ocado are that the company is forecast to make massive improvements on its initial losses when it reports its first annual results as a quoted company. Read Blog…

Oh dear. While an influential report by Bellwether recently showed that companies were pouring more into their online marketing budgets, the BBC doesn’t seem to be part of that trend. Sadly, 360 jobs are being lost to try and help reconstruct the BBC’s web services for the digital age, with the service licence budget being Read Blog…

Sainsbury’s had a very enjoyable Christmas, reclaiming the title of second largest UK supermarket from Asda, and reporting a like-for-like sales rise of 3.6 per cent in the 14 weeks leading up to 8 January 2011. Sainsbury’s saw an increase in sales for items such as homeware and electricals. Hold on – what’s this on Read Blog…

Google has announced that it is to launch a digital newsstand for its Android operating system. Google have been talking to publishers of electronic content in the hope of bringing newspapers and magazines to people who use their tablets and smartphones, ultimately offering them a service to rival the one currently offered by Apple’s iTunes Read Blog…

Yahoo! has been there since the beginning. If it walked into a bar then everybody would know its name – but fewer and fewer seem to be willing to buy it a drink. Four per cent of its workface are set to be laid off according to Reuters, which will roughly work out as 600 Read Blog…

England’s first choice right back (for the time being, anyway…) Glen Johnson has the right idea. Barely thirty tweets to his name, yet he manages to attract close to a thousand followers to his Twitter profile in a 12-hour period. How did he do it? Simple – with freebies! Glen tweeted on 14 December 2010 Read Blog…