The impact of social media on the British workplace has been documented by the UK’s largest network of regional job boards, MyJobGroup.

AVG Technologies has struck an agreement with Google to boost the search functionality of the firm’s anti-virus software.

Yesterday saw the historic announcement that The Beatles’ back catalogue is finally available to purchase digitally through the world’s largest music download store, iTunes. To commemorate Shazam have picked out the most tagged Beatles tracks on their mobile discovery app.

Best Buy has launched a Facebook shop for UK web users following on from the opening of its online store on November 4th.

Brightcove has launched an office in Australia, as the online video platform contuinues its global expansion.

Facebook has launched a next-generation online messaging service that gives the user a Facebook.com email addresses, in a move seen as a shot across the bow of Google, Yahoo! and Microsoft.

Google has given all of its 23,000 employees a pay hike, in a bid to stem defections to rival technology companies such as Facebook, according to a report.

AOL is testing a new version of its email system, dubbed ‘Project phoenix’, which aims to bring together a number of communication formats, including social media, texts and emails, into a one-stop media platform.

Online shoppers in the UK are expected to spend £162 billion per year on products via the internet by the end of 2020. This burgeoning market is one that small businesses should not ignore. Thomas Vollrath, CEO, 123-Reg offers a guide to getting the most out of this Christams.

Facebook is now worth more than eBay in terms of privately held stock, making it the third- largest US internet business, and fueling speculation that the social network could sell shares to the public in the not-to-distant future.