Author: Olly

Search engine giant Google has agreed to pay out a massive $500million (£305million) settlement after facing accusations that they allowed Canadian pharmaceutical companies to use their adwords service to advertise in America.…

Social networking giant Facebook have unveiled major plans to change the way privacy is dealt with on the website. One of the long term criticisms of Facebook has been its lack of…

Internet calling application Skype, which was purchased by Microsoft in a massive deal earlier this year, has reportedly completed the purchase of mobile group messaging service ‘GroupMe’. This acquisition, of which financial…

Google have officially added the ‘Hangouts’ feature from their Google+ social network directly to their popular video sharing website Youtube. The hangout feature, which is already available on Google+ itself allows for…

Search giant Google has been given a ‘To-Do’ list by the UK information commissioner to improve their privacy issues. Google had promised reforms of their privacy last year after it emerged that the Google…

Senior Facebook executive Sean Ryan has criticised Google’s new social network Google+ saying it lacks originality, users and any appeal for software developers. Ryan, who is Facebook’s ‘Director of Games Partnerships’ said…

New statistics have shown that around 25% of 18-29 year olds claim to be using social media outlets such as Facebook and Twitter less than when they started due to ‘boredom’ with…

Social networking giant Facebook has released an iPhone and Android dedicated messaging app which they say they want to use to ‘replace’ text messaging. It is already possible to send instant messages…