The popularity of shopping through mobile devices is continuing to grow at remarkable speed, with sales through mobile devices penetrating the 5% barrier of total e-retail sales for the first time, according to new research.

Google has begun to implement its single merged privacy policy for all of its services despite a warning letter from the EU.

Twitter plans to make it more difficult for users to avoid advertisements on mobile. According to global digital marketing agency, Fortune Cookie, the news is unsurprising and detracts from more interesting and important developments at Twitter.

Microsoft’s Azure cloud service went down this week, taking out the UK government’s CloudStore and disrupting many businesses in the process. The failure “appears” to have been triggered by extra day in the leap year, according to Microsoft.

Women and young adults are outpacing other demographics in unfriending on Facebook, as social networkers get more savvy in managing their reputation online, according to new research.

A hand-held computer called the Raspberry Pi has gone on sale in the UK for just £22 this week, aimed at teaching children how to programme and code.

Microsoft has launched a public trial of its upcoming Windows 8 operating system, which will run on tablets as well as PCs.

Volker Weiwer, CEO, eCircle explains how to implement a winning lifecycle email strategy to increase the results of your email marketing program.

LG’s new minute-long “smart thief caught on cam” guerrilla-style ad for its slim televisions has already amassed 4.5m views since its launch on YouTube back in December. Click below to see why it’s our video viral of the week…

Whether or not you have a smartphone is closely related to both how old you are and how much money you make, according to a Nielsen survey in January of more than 20,000 mobile consumers.