Do you remember Yahoo when it was this internet pioneer? When we all visited the site and had Yahoo email addresses? Those were the days! Yahoo is now a shadow of its former self a this infographic details.

Its share price once stood at $56 and now sites at $15 its revenue growth has fallen below zero and its main business these days seems to be endless rounds of redundancies. Read More »

With all eyes on the Manchester City and Manchester United derby that might have decided the winners of the Premiership on Monday night, we were glued to the activity on Twitter.

With over a million tweets (1,008,134 – source: Sysomos M.A.P.) sent about the game, this generated more than double the 455,000 tweets about The Voice last Saturday – or four times the 245,000 tweets about the first episode of the new series of The Apprentice. Read More »

A new social media service launches today called Scrambls which allows users to encrypt posts to Facebook, Twitter and any other websites essentially creating secure personal sharing across social networks.

It taps into the concern that many have about privacy particularly when it comes to Facebook. It will be interesting to see if this gains any traction and whether social network users do start hiding their posts from the wider world. Read More »

It is being reported that Facebook will begin its investor roadshow for its initial public on Monday, which means that its shares should begin trading on May 18.

The roadshow will see founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg closely involved, according to sources quoted by Reuters. To date he has been mostly in the background as the IPO has progressed and did not attend an analysts’ meeting in March. Read More »