Industry News

Icahn turns up the heat on Yahoo!
Yahoo! have come under fire from billionaire activist investor Carl Icahn who, in a recent letter, strongly urges the company to set a sale price, putting intense pressure on the company as it approaches its annual shareholders' meeting.

Britain loves an online bargain
According to research by Hitwise, UK internet searches for 'vouchers' have increased 12-fold over the last three years.

Google and Salesforce moving ever closer
Google and Salesforce have in recent months aligned their product strategies more and more closely, leading to rumours of a Salesforce buyout by Google.

Attention shifts - what's Britain looking for online
It is no secret that social networks are becoming more and more popular in the UK - but the latest figures from Nielson Online offer some proof.

MobileMe announced - Apple with its head in the clouds
This week, along with an introduction to the new iPhone, Apple announced the launch of a new web-based 'cloud' storage service called MobileMe which is set to replace their old .Mac subscription service.

Google adds numbers to Google Trends
Google has added a number index onto its popular Google Trends feature, with the option to download a csv file of results.

Mumbai: A little too far to travel for lunch
An unusual result from a lunchtime Google search almost tempted one bigmouth to book a flight yesterday when google.uk threw up local India results.

New threats to Wikipedia's encyclopaedic crown ?
Wikipedia has long been the big chief as far as online encyclopaedias are concerned but there are two major competitors looking to grab themselves a bigger piece of the action.

Chinese Opera singing Baidu's song
Web browser and internet suite Opera - perhaps better known for its use on mobile devices such as mobile phones and PDAs - recently made a huge step to increase its use on personal computers by partnering with Baidu, China's most prolific search engi

Microsoft - hoping to change the way that offices socialise
Microsoft is testing its new prototype - a social networking service specifically designed to be used on company intranets.