Investors are pumping money into web services that are reliant on Facebook. So how big is the economy around the world’s most popular social network?
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/ 10 February 2010
Whatever Google Buzz is, it’s certainly got people talking — but will they also be using the company’s new social networking features?
In the final instalment of our three part chat with Twitter co-founder Biz Stone, he discusses the site’s crucial moments so far.
Last week I met up with Twitter co-founder Biz Stone to discuss life at the company, and to find out what things are like inside the start-up.
I met up with Twitter co-founder Biz Stone to discuss life at the company, and to find out what things are like inside the most talked-about start-up.
Headlines abound suggesting that the majority of people are going to avoid the new operating system — but it might not be over for Bill Gates.
In the early 90s he helped to shape the internet. Now Douglas Rushkoff is back — with a plan to wrest control from our big corporations.
Revealing documents from a court deposition last year show exactly what Steve Jobs thinks of his role at Apple.
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/ 14 December 2008
Apple is not the first company to fall foul of the ban, which has been in place for five years.
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/ 27 November 2008
The billionaire co-founder is seen as an obstacle to change and the lower share price may attract a new Microsoft bid, writes Bobbie Johnson.
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/ 15 October 2008
Experts have long known it is easier to lie in writing than in real life, where deception is made more difficult by physical prompts.
Critics of ultra-violent video games will not be the only ones watching carefully as the latest instalment of the <i>Grand Theft Auto</i> series is released: the suits in Hollywood are anxious that it may dent the profits of their summer blockbusters.
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/ 15 October 2007
When British dotcom entrepreneur Calum Brannan had his first meeting with potential investors last year, he immediately encountered a problem. My uncle had driven me down to Cambridge from Coventry for the meeting, and came to sit in on it with me," he said. "But they thought he ran the website and started talking to him instead of me."
Editing your own entry on Wikipedia is usually the province of vain celebrities, but a new website has uncovered dozens of companies that have been editing the site in order to improve their public image. The Wikipedia Scanner has unearthed a catalogue of organisations massaging entries, including the CIA and the British Labour party.
Deutsche Telekom is investing $20-million in hotly tipped internet telephony start-up Jajah.com as the online communications industry continues its rapid growth. Jajah has already been backed by venture groups such as Sequoia Capital — the Silicon Valley company that was instrumental in the rise of Google, YouTube and PayPal — and Intel.
It’s a kind of social networking site, and it is generating huge amounts of buzz among the web’s early adopters thanks to a simple conceit. All <i>Twitter.com</i> does is ask: "What are you doing?" The idea is that it offers a way for individuals to provide more detailed status updates to their friends, family and contacts.
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/ 25 October 2005
In the heyday of radio, the wireless was the centre of people’s lives. The image of families gathered around their radio set is a familiar one — listening to a broadcast was a group activity. "When they say ‘the radio’, they don’t mean … a man in a studio," wrote EB White, author of children’s classic <i>Charlotte’s Web</i>, in the 1940s.
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/ 26 November 2004
First it was vintage heavy metal T-shirts, then came leg warmers and Lycra. Now old cellphones have become the retro fashion accessory to be seen with. Twenty years after Britain’s first cellphone call was made technology has leapt forward, but hipsters and homebodies alike are rejecting flashy new models in favour of tried-and-trusted phone favourites.