Google has increased its dominant position in the UK search market, accounting for more than 9 in 10 of all searches, according to the latest data.

This infographic below from Buddy Media illustrates how complicated the social media ecosystem has become, with a myriad of management, analytics, gaming and advertising tools avaialble for advertisers.

Pakistan has restored access to Twitter after briefly blocking the microblog over the weekend, die to “blasphemous” posts about a Facebook competition involving caricatures of Prophet Mohammed.

International development charity, Christian Aid is launching a marketing campaign to encourage donations and support in the run up to Christian Aid Week (13-19 May), the main fundraising event in its annual calendar.

Facebook has floated on the US stock market with a market worth of $104bn, in the highest ever first-day valuation of a US public company, ahead of the likes of Amazon, Disney and Kraft. The valuation comes despite concerns about the company’s long-term money making potential.

To make it into Apple’s lucrative ‘top free 25 list’, apps require approximately 38,400 daily downloads, according to new data.

Social media ‘pinboard’ Pinterest has won $100m (£63m) in funding from Japanese internet retailing giant Rakuten and existing investors.

The Kindle Fire, introduced to the market in November 2011, has seen rapid adoption among buyers of tablets in the US, according to new research.

India is forecast to overtake the US as the world`s largest Facebook market by number of users as early as 2015, according to a new report from Gartner.

Just when you thought you’d got the hang of selling services online, along comes another challenge: social switching. Julia Kukiewicz, Editor of Choose, takes a look at how online people power looks set to shake up the utility markets…