Companies are finally overcoming their fear of social media by harnessing social tools and networks both to engage their employees and to strengthen customer relationships, according to a report.

Top 15 web properties in Russia, ranked by thousands of unique visitors (Aug 2010).

71% of mums in the US are using apps and over 50% using social networks, according to new data.

Internet companies should provide more ways for children to block, filter or report alarming online content and contacts, recommends a new study for the European Commission.

Almost 400,000 British adults aged over 50 are using social networking sites from their mobiles, and are three times more likely to access social media sites than younger adults, according to new research.

This week saw the launch of Apple’s Mac app store, letting users buy more than 1,000 programs for download, including best sellers such as Angry Birds. As the site attracted over 1 million purchases on its first day alone, Adie Flute, founder of agency Deviate, asks if quality is being sacrificed for quantitiy when it … [Read more…]

Music recognition service Shazam is to integrate Spotify across the full range of Shazam’s free and premium Apps for iPhone, iPod touch and Android.

From February 28th this year, TV shows will be allowed to cash-in on displaying product logos in their content, following new rules from Ofcom. Roger Llewellyn, CEO at Kognitio, looks at the benefits for TV and the knock-on effect for video-on-demand services.

Organisations must improve web performance in 2011, says Site Confidence, which has listed the five worst web crashes of last year.

Social commerce sites LivingSocial has acquired a majority stake in LetsBonus, one of the original European social shopping sites.