For most of us, things that take up roughly a minute of our time might include checking e-mails, brushing your teeth or microwaving up a cold cup of coffee. For YouTube, a minute sees 100 hours’ worth of video uploads. The latest staggering statistic was revealed on the video sharing site’s blog on May 19. [...]
American internet corporation Yahoo! is to acquire the popular blogging service Tumblr in a deal worth £723m. Marissa Mayer, Yahoo!’s chief executive, said that Tumblr would continue to operate independently after the site’s bosses promised “not to screw it up”. The deal is the most significant made by Mayer since she took over at the [...]
Google has revealed a host of updates to its social media offering, Google+. The changes were announced at the company’s recent Google I/O conference. The developments include an overhaul of the site’s layout, with users now offered a fresh multi-column design for the site’s news feed, Google+ Stream. With this, users will be able to [...]