The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has launched a competition probe into Facebook's $1 billion acquisition of photo-sharing service Instagram, which could end up delaying the deal by at least a year. According to the Financial...

Twitter has snapped up the pros behind personalised email marketing agency RestEngine.  The team describes itself as a "social marketing automation solution" for app developers and publishers, and as the company...

Dell and Ubuntu have teamed up to deliver a laptop powered by Linux for the developer market. In reality, it is a bog standard Dell XPS 13 laptop with Ubuntu 12.04 loaded which means that if you already have one, you can get an...

Amazon is set to unveil three new blogs that will compete against the likes of Gizmodo and The Verge as well as Photographyblog. According to a report published by The Daily, the online retail giant will produce unbiased reviews...

Cisco has revealed its third quarter earnings, bagging a revenue of $11.6 billion, and a net income of $2.2 billion. Q3 revenue was up 7 per cent year-on-year, and net income up 20 per cent on the same period in 2011. Non-GAAP...

O2 has this week reached the 10 million customer mark for its personalised media platform, O2 More. The O2 More platform now accounts for almost 50 per cent of the network carrier's total customer base. O2 More is an advertising...

Amidst all the recent drama Yahoo! has had (think Scott Thompson and his falsified Computer Science degree plus Patti Hart quitting the Yahoo! board of directors), some pretty extensive damage control is desperately needed to...

Everyone's favourite musical social platform, SoundCloud, has announced plans to undergo a major design overhaul.  Currently, the redesign is only available via private beta invites - but will gradually be rolled out over...

Facebook is showing its support for its home troops by launching a programme aimed at military personnel, their families and veterans - by providing them with customised resources in the event of their content being reported as...

Have you ever worried that your passion for virtual reality eclipses that of actual reality?  Well worry no longer, as scientists have developed a simple test to see whether or not you're addicted to Facebook.  Yes,...

The share of web traffic coming from countries in Asia has tripled in just over two years. Almost 50 per cent of all web traffic in India is mobile traffic, as is the web traffic in several other countries in both Asia and...

Facebook has announced its App Center, "a new place for people to find social apps", in its developer blog. The social networking giant is capitalising in on the app store market, by using the App Center to promote apps that use...

The new BlackBerry Curve 9320 will available from mobile network Three. RIM's latest BlackBerry smartphone will be available from the carrier online and in store from 14th May. On Pay As You Go the device will be...

The Queen has confirmed UK governmental plans to increase the surveillance of its citizens in her speech to Parliament this morning, headlining it instead as something that will "maintain the ability of the law enforcement and...

When the highly-publicised feud between the Winklevoss brothers and Mark Zuckerberg finally came to an end, we thought that would be the last of Facebook's worries.  But yesterday, a rumour set the virtual world on fire -...