Quoted: Online spending is expected to rise a robust 17 percent this year, despite a sluggish economy that has bruised many brick-based retailers, according to an ...

Quoted: THE internet could soon be made obsolete. The scientists who pioneered it have now built a lightning-fast replacement capable of downloading entire feature films within ...

Quoted: New media, Jemima Kiss: We had a real-life web-lebrity in the Guardian's offices last week: Martin Stiksel, one third of the brains behind the music recommendation site Last.fm.

Quoted: As consumers spend more time on the Internet, companies are redistributing advertising dollars from traditional media to online media to follow this trend. In its ...

Quoted: Zynga Game Network is one of a new cluster of Internet ventures capitalizing on the rapidly growing social networks like Facebook and MySpace.

Quoted: Many of the reader-generated reviews of travel services on the Web are taking an ever-growing piece of the market from print guides.

Quoted: Facebook has 59 million users - and 2 million new ones join each week. But you won't catch Tom Hodgkinson volunteering his personal information - not now that he knows the politics of the people behind…

Quoted: A new kind of Web site is turning ordinary people into hidden influencers, shaping what we read, watch and buy.

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