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News
Apple approves Spotify app for iPhone
Apple has announced it has approved Spotify’s much anticipated iPhone app, despite the potential threat it poses to Apple’s iTunes.
Twitter to launch accounts with premium services
Twitter is set to launch commercial accounts to entice business users to pay for premium services.
YouTube allows users to make money from home videos
Video-sharing website YouTube is to offer owners of the most popular videos a share of the profits it generates.
Comment
Twitter Litter
Whilst social media's very much of the 21st century, the social actions that people carry out online are millennia old. As long as civilisation has existed, people have shared, discussed and organised. What the internet changes is the speed at which this happens, and the scale on which it occurs.
Bitesize
British consumers are sophisticated searchers
A recent survey by YouGov has shown that British consumers demand more than simply 10 blue links in their search results.
Indian farmers control water pumps from their mobile
Farmers in India are turning to technology to help monitor and switch on water pumps.
Andy Roddick gets all in a Tweet!
US tennis star Andy Roddick has hit back at organisers of the US Open after they posted warning signs around the changing rooms about the risks of using Twitter.
Public Wi-Fi Hotspots grow 400 per cent worldwide
The UK is now one of the top countries worldwide to offer public Wi-Fi, according to research by JiWire.
The Numbers Page
UK online buyers on the increase
Millions of people are likely to spend a greater proportion of their retail budget on the Web.
Global search clears 100m searches per month
More than 113 million searches were conducted in July 2009, according to a study by comScore, representing a 41% increase versus a year ago.
Social media accounts for more then 20% of US Online Display Ads
A comScore study has showed that social networking sites accounted for more than 20% of all display ads viewed online, with MySpace and Facebook combining to deliver more than 80% of ads among sites in the social networking category.