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Microsoft’s chief executive Steve Ballmer may be making claims about creating the “future of real-time communications” through its $8.5bn (£5.2bn) acquisition of internet telephony company Skype; but the overwhelming reaction has been simply – why? Many bloggers were quick to point out that the deal comes after both Google and Facebook has shown interest in [...]

So Twitter is five years old, and how it’s grown! Since the first tweet was sent by co-founder Jack Dorsey on March 21, 2006, the micro-blogging site has attracted more than 200 million users and about a billion tweets are now sent a week. It has become an acceptable part of everyday life for millions [...]

Facebook’s decision to make Facebook Credits the default form of payment for games may not be welcome news for everyone, but it shouldn’t come as a surprise. The move, which will come into effect on July 1, has been mooted for a year or more and, although it was met with grumblings from many developers, [...]