With great fanfare, Google launched its apparent Facebook-killer, Google+, this summer. So far the verdict among even the nerdiest social media nuts is: we're not sure what to do with it... more
Don't expect too much negative comment from the big banks' analysts on Groupon, which is lining itself up for a flotation to raise $750 million... more
Google is leaving open the door to more co-operation with social-media giants Facebook and Twitter, and believes there is room for multiple social networks as it rolls out its own, executive chairman Eric Schmidt has said... more
Google's London subsidiary generated almost $1 billion in revenues in the first three months
of the year as it continues to grow at double-digit pace - up 15% on a year earlier... more
The reaction to the acquisition of the Huffington Post by AOL has run from sceptical to enthusiastic, with more than a dash of wonderment at the remarkable personal story behind the Post's founder... more
Analysis: Silicon Valley experienced a major set earthquakes when three tech giants, Apple, Google and Hewlett-Packard, announced big shake-ups in their leadership... more
While Alan Johnson wanted the 50% top rate of tax to be regarded as temporary, his successor as shadow chancellor Ed Balls favours keeping it and seeing it kick in at a lower threshold than the present £150,000... more
Google reignited the row over its corporate tax avoidance as its annual UK revenues smashed through the £2 billion barrier for the first time last year... more
The London Stock Exchange has “now concluded” its investigation into a major and embarrassing outage last November, at the time rumoured to be sabotage, that saw the stock market suspended... more
Business Secretary Lord Mandelson warned that governments should not allow anger about the credit crunch to stifle financial markets with excessive regulation ... more
The greatest fortunes in California’s first gold rush were made by the likes of Leland Stanford and Collis P Huntington, shopkeepers who sold the miners their shovels. The pair of Sacramento outfitters went on to become two of the Big Four investors in the Central Pacific Railroad, America’s first transcontinental railroad, and respectively built the best university and the finest library in the state
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It's awards season, of course, but here that doesn’t just mean the Golden Globes or the upcoming Oscars. The Valley cares as much, if not more, about the Crunchies... more
Sound check: German industrial metal band Rammstein literally play with fire in their live performances - and now they are about to unleash their singeing spectacle on London. Watch out for your eyebrows
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