In the week when Apple revealed its first profit drop in a decade, rival Samsung has seen smartphone sales drive its income up 42% to a record high despite a typically slow season for the electronics market.
Google’s executive chairman, Eric Schmidt, has defended his company paying just £6m in UK corporation tax, saying the firm was playing a key role in the UK’s high-tech growth.
British government site GOV.UK has won the overall design award for the 2013 London Design Museum Design Awards, and was also selected as winner of the digital category.
Controversial electronic currency Bitcoin has lost half its value on Wednesday due to a panic sell-off.
UK marketers prefer online or social media channels as the best routes to reach target audiences, with only 3% choosing cold-calling as their preferred means of reaching prospects.
Following this week’s announcement from EE that it is doubling the amount of spectrum it is using for 4G, Matthew Howett, telecoms regulation analyst at Ovum, wonders if there really will be over 1 million 4G users in the UK by the end of this year.
Almost half (42 per cent) of 25 to 34 year olds are likely to turn to TV as their primary medium for finding out breaking news, with 66 per cent then turning to the internet to find out more information.
Russia has Europe’s largest internet audience, whilst Turkey counts the youngest users and the Netherlands has the highest market penetration, according to new data.
Web and mobile app TVCatchup suffered a setback this week, after the European Court of Justice ruled that broadcasters can block Internet platforms from streaming their output on the web.
Amazon dominates the paid search ads on Google UK, by far more visible in results pages than its closest rivals Ask and Booking.com, according to new research.