Kazoo Travel, a new holiday shopping website that lets users negitioate on price with vendors, has launched in the UK with almost 100 travel agents have signed up.

Figures just published by The British Population Survey (BPS) show that the 3 months to December 2010 Unemployment rate was 7.73%.

Hotel chain Hilton Worldwide is running a campaign of Twitter to promote its new year sale, in partnership with agency Grape Digital.

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MySpace is reportedly about to lay off more than half of its employees as the former social networking market leader scales back its ambitions.

Online coupon service Groupon says it has finished raising $950m (£610m) to complete its biggest deal so far.

Google’s visual recognition app Goggles has been updated with a range of new features, including the ability to solve any Soduku puzzle taken from a smartphone user’s camera.

Over 2 in 5 (44%) of Britain’s online adult population upped their online spending this Christmas compared to 2009, pushing the total amount spent online to £2.8bn, according to new research.

Online video advertising experienced substantial growth last year, seeing revenues more than triple, according to Web TV Enterprise.

Tag management system TagMan has closed $2.25 million in Series A funding led by Greycroft Partners, allowing the firm to boost its performance tracking capabilities for websites.