Author: Olly

They may well be heads of one hugely competitive rival companies, but Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg and Google’s Eric Schmidt do agree on some things. The two are leading a group of internet…

Intense speculation is circulating that social networking and micro blogging site twitter have completed the purchase of the adobe air application TweetDeck for around an astonishing $40million (£25million). The application splits Twitter…

Twitters decision to open an office in the UK could leave it vulnerable to prosecution over what its users write, according to top lawyers. The micro-blogging social networking site – which is…

Google are currently rolling out a fix to their android phones following a warning from German security researchers that 99% of their handsets were potentially leaking information. The security flaw means that…

Back in October 2009,  Google launched their ‘Social Search’ service, which provided the signed in searchers to view connections and news from their social media outlets such as Facebook, and now, the…

Google chairman Eric Schmidt has made a promise to users that they will simplify the process by which they agree to share their personal data. There has been some criticism recently –…

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, a few days ago, praised the UK’s status as eCommerce capital of the world, and claimed that the internet was Britain’s path to economic recovery – although pointed out…

Prime Minister David Cameron has been urged to put his full backing behind a potential shake-up of Britain’s copyright laws. A report, which the PM announced himself, is expected to suggest that Britain should…

Former Google CEO, Eric Schmidt has praised the UK and claimed that its ‘path to prosperity’ is through the online world. Mr Schmidt praised the countries entrepreneurialism and willingness to embrace new technology, mainly due…

News has come to light that social networking leader Facebook hired a PR agency to run a smear campaign against competitor and search engine giant Google. Facebook have admitted to hiring the…