Mike Lynch, arguably Britain's most successful tech entrepreneur, has resigned from HP, the company he sold Autonomy to last year.
Stat of the day: 72 hours. On the seventh anniversary of its launch, video-sharing website YouTube reveals that users upload three days worth of footage every minute.
18 May 2012
Move over road rage, there's a new psychosis in town. According to web hosting firm 1&1 Internet, slow web pages are still a major issue for 78% of internet users, prompting bouts of 'negative emotion'.
Smart devices and interactive TV will boost UK retail sales by £2.4bn by 2014, says new report. Are smaller retailers best-placed to take advantage?
Social networking site Pinterest has raised $100m, valuing the two-year old business at £1.5bn.
The off-the-peg website and online shop builder has been bought e-lock, stock and barrel by Yell for £18m with a £5.2m pay-out for the executive team after two years.
Revenues at the telcoms giant may have fallen 4%, but shareholders are expecting a full-year dividend after a raft of cost-cutting helped BT hike profits.
Finish software outfit Rovio has been feathering its nest thanks to the runaway success of its Angry Birds app.
Quote of the day: 'The music industry never had an appreciation for technology. We're going to work out how to make money once we marry music and science. Apple is worth $800bn now - the music industry far less. Music helped define what that company is, but they made all the money.' Digital entrepeneur...
Stat of the day: £400,000. The amount of money the House of Commons is to spend on giving all 650 MPs an iPad each.