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Google unveils personalised Google Maps

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New service builds around idea of 'a map for every person and place'
16 May 2013

Yahoo and Apple discuss iPhone and iPad partnership

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Yahoo apps could play more prominent role on Apple devices
10 Apr 2013

ICO to investigate Google's privacy policy

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UK data watchdog to investigate if Google privacy policy compliant with Data Protection Act
03 Apr 2013

H4cked Off: Web giants can't be trusted to self-regulate

Appointment of Edith Ramirez as FTC chairman could end up being open season for the likes of Google and Facebook ignoring privacy concerns
02 Apr 2013

O2 MD questions wisdom of Yahoo's ban on home working

'People don't need to come to the office to prove they're working hard' says David Plumb
13 Mar 2013

Companies running on AWS accuse Amazon of copying

Companies offering services on Amazon's AWS infrastructure accuse the online giant of copying their work
11 Mar 2013

'People need to be paid for their personal data' says Jaron Lavier

Web companies fixate too much on being 'market optimisers' and not enough on future financial models, says Microsoft 'scholar at large'
05 Mar 2013

H4cked off: Work from home? Couldn't Yahoo just work on Ymail?

The furore over Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer's edict ending working from home at the web company masks deeper strategic challenges
26 Feb 2013

Ordnance Survey issues £2m tender for IT services

UK national mapping agency on the hunt for agile software development partner
21 Feb 2013

Yahoo boss formulating 'a chain reaction of growth'

CEO Marissa Mayer to focus on 'increasing usage, growing international presence and broadening demographic'
29 Jan 2013

Google reports record $50bn revenue for 2012

Web giant sees revenue increase despite slight drop in UK search share
23 Jan 2013

Play.com closes direct retail business

Company's retail business never recovered from end of VAT loophole
09 Jan 2013

Cloud storage battle: Google & Amazon slash cloud prices

Web giants continue attempts to out do one another with 25 per cent price drops
30 Nov 2012

Facebook's new privacy policy to allow data sharing with Instagram

User data to be shared across Facebook's portfolio and affiliates in a move similar to Google's much-criticised policy
22 Nov 2012

Lack of universal 4G could cost economy £120m over Christmas says eBay

Ecommerce giant believes unreliable mobile connections hampering online sales
31 Oct 2012

Another Amazon cloud outage brings major websites down

Reddit, Foursquare and Minecraft affected by latest failure at Virginia datacentre
23 Oct 2012

Yahoo's Mayer brings fellow ex-Google exec on board as COO

Henrique de Castro joins Mayer’s new management team
16 Oct 2012

Firefox update pulled over security fear

Mozilla advises Firefox 16 users to go back to previous version
11 Oct 2012

Amazon adds free database service to its Web Services suite

Relational Database Service available to new AWS customers for nothing
03 Oct 2012

Berners-Lee launches international index to chart political and social impact of web

Sweden tops index while the UK - perhaps surprisingly - comes third
06 Sep 2012

Video: How is Play.com responding to challenging conditions in online retail?

Play.com CIO explains how Rakuten acquisition bolsters resources
27 Jul 2012

Updated: Virgin, Vodafone, Everything Everywhere boycott net neutrality pact

ISPs refuse to sign 'full and open access' internet agreement
25 Jul 2012

Olympics website least robust of all key London 2012 sites, says traffic survey

Increased visits during Games could bring official 2012 site to its knees
25 Jul 2012

Google and Mozilla draw battle lines in mobile browser wars

Google will benefit from acquiring Sparrow, Mozilla can't succeed with new OS, says analyst
23 Jul 2012