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Facebook usage in Britain has dropped by over seven per cent during the past year, sparking concerns that it could have reached saturation point. The widely-used social network still attracted considerably more online activity than its nearest rival, making up 52.6 per cent of all social network visits in December. However, Facebook – which is [...]
(Read More)4th Nov 11
UK riots driven by opportunism and dissatisfaction
by Katie Naylor
Government-funded research into the motivations of those who participated in the rioting in August has concluded that the young people were driven by opportunism and excitement, as well as dissatisfaction with the police. The study, based on questioning 50 young people who took part in the disorder, analysed potential triggers for taking part. Penny Young [...]
(Read More)7th Oct 11
Tributes pour in for Steve Jobs
by Adam Richards
World and business leaders have led the tributes to the co-founder of Apple, Steve Jobs, who died yesterday at the age of 56 following a long fight with pancreatic cancer. Both US President Barack Obama and his Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev heaped praise on Mr Jobs, saying he had changed the world. Facebook founder Mark [...]
(Read More)28th Sep 11
Saudi woman to receive 10 lashes for driving
by Natasha Redman
A woman from Saudi Arabia will be given 10 lashes after she challenged the country’s ban on female driving. Amnesty International told of the sentence two days after Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah granted females the right to run in municipal elections and to vote. Philip Luther, a regional deputy director at Amnesty said in a [...]
(Read More)26th Sep 11
Facebook to focus on media sharing
by Paul Russell
Facebook has revealed that its plans to urge users to share more media which they consume – including movies and music – with friends. Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook founder, also unveiled the website’s dramatic redesign, putting an audio visual timeline of users’ lives in place of their profiles. The updates were announced at Facebook’s yearly F8 developer [...]
(Read More)2nd Sep 11
Employers warned about social network snooping
by Sally Davies
Employers have been warned about the risk of having to face discrimination charges if they use websites such as Facebook to snoop on prospective workers’ private lives. A recent guide by Acas, the organisation which helps improve relationships between employers and workers, urges bosses not to be too “heavy handed” by punishing staff for unprofessional [...]
(Read More)22nd Aug 11
Home secretary to meet social networks over riots
by Paul Russell
The Home Office has summoned the major social networks to a meeting on Thursday to talk about the English riots. Facebook, Blackberry and Twitter have all been strongly criticised after news came out that a number of rioters appear to have used them in order to plan riots or encourage others. Facebook has confirmed it [...]
(Read More)3rd Aug 11
Twitter value soars to $8bn
by Paul Russell
Twitter, the microblogging websites which allows users to tweet messages containing up to 140 characters, is now valued at $8bn (£4.9bn). The company’s new valuation comes in the wake of an investment of $400m in the loss-making firm from DST Global. Twitter is currently nominally worth around, as Moody’s the ratings agency which boasted, $1.2bn [...]
(Read More)6th Jul 11
Apple to make decision on Google+ app
by Adam Richards
Google has asked for Apple’s approval for a mobile version of its Google+ social networking site for iPads and iPhones. The news that Google had tendered an iOS app was announced by a company employee on her personal page. If + is to be successful alongside Twitter and Facebook it will need to be made [...]
(Read More)25th May 11
MP Hemming denies abusing privilege
by Natasha Redman
John Hemming has denied claims that he took advantage of parliamentary privilege by stating the name of the footballer in the centre of the super-injunctions row. The MP for the Lib Dems said that he had not used privilege because he would have been able to name the footballer outside the House of Commons – because his [...]
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