Yahoo’s chief executive Carol Bartz has been fired from her position at the company after two and a half years in charge. Back in 2009 Ms Bartz took over from one of the companies founders Jerry Yang, in an attempt to turn around its falling fortunes as it continually lost ground in the search industry to Google. [...]

Search engine, and now many other things, giant Google has closed 10 of its services in what has been described as a ‘Spring Clean’. These discontinued services are to include social powered question and answer tool ‘Aardvark’, news content experiment ‘Fast Flip’ and note taking service ‘Notebook’. This is being done so that Google can [...]

Since its release at the end of June, Google+ has had a fantastic start to life, managing to gain 25million users in its first month – rather impressive when biggest rival Facebook took 10 months to reach 1million – however, new statistics from Experian Hitwise has shown that some of the novelty is wearing off, [...]

Chairman and former CEO of Google, Eric Schmidt has criticised I.T education in the UK during his ‘MacTaggart Lecture’ at the ‘Edinburgh International Television Festival’. The 56 year old became the first none broadcaster to speak at the lecture, and used this time to express his feelings, saying “If I may be so impolite, your [...]

Google have officially added the ‘Hangouts’ feature from their Google+ social network directly to their popular video sharing website Youtube. The hangout feature, which is already available on Google+ itself allows for group webcam chat with friends, via text or audio, and lets the group watch Youtube videos together in the chat window, and now [...]