Amazon will pay $928m for the online shoe retailer Zappos, a US-based firm with fiercely loyal customers — tipped as being the next worthy rival to Amazon, the world's largest online retailer.

But they still want Stephen Fry to be the next Prime Minister

Yahoo! has signed content deals with Time Out, Elle and the Financial Times ahead of the UK launch of its overhauled homepage.

The web is changing the way we sell our homes. Does this spell the end for estate agents?

It seems that doing reviews and giveaways in response to PR requests has become the bane of some mom bloggers' existence. They say they're feeling stressed by the deadlines and the demands of producing content for someone else's benefit.

Anthropologist Stefana Broadbent says that modern communications aren't expanding our circle of friends but are strengthening our most important relationships

If people are being nice to you, they probably have something to gain

Facebook may have stolen much of its UK audience from those people who used Friends Reunited, but now Facebook has stolen away the great success stories as well. Friends Reunited tried to reinvent itself as ‘Genes Reunited’, a website that helped people get in touch with long lost relatives. However it was never really that successful due to a small userbase. Now Facebook is succeeding where Friends Reunited failed, by reuniting a woman from Liverpool with a son she hadn’t seen in 27 years.