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Delve into digital: tapping into Europe's online start-up potential

As Europe's economy stagnates the digital sector is soaring, with web-based start-ups such as Yoopies setting the pace

06/02/2015

World News

Sweet tweets as Twitter beats Wall Street revenue targets

Twitter has surpassed Wall Street’s profit and revenue targets boosting shares in one of the world’s top social media services.

06/02/2015

USA

Silk Road creator Ross Ulbricht guilty of running vast online drugs trade

The suspected operator of the underground website Silk Road was convicted on Wednesday over his role in orchestrating a scheme enabling around $200 million of anonymous online drug sales using bitcoin

05/02/2015

My Europe Series

Shining a light on the Dark Net

Want a fake passport? How about an arsenal of guns? Or just click online and with anonymity assured you could be dealing in drugs. It’s all there in

28/01/2015

World News

Facebook says hackers not to blame for temporary outages of its sites

27/01/2015

World News

Glitter, Yo and messages from the dead: bizarre business successes

23/01/2015

USA

YouTube bloggers interview Obama at White House

YouTube video bloggers have been giving US President Barack Obama a grilling. The video interviews were shown on the White House YouTube page – and

23/01/2015

USA

Nine things to know about Windows 10

Did you miss Windows 9? You're not alone. We take a look at the new Windows 10, which will be free for some users.

22/01/2015

France

Francois Hollande: more needs to be done to get terrorists off the web

Action against terrorism must now be collective and coordinated, says French President

16/01/2015

My Europe Series

Words as weapons: what's Europe doing to tackle hate on the net?

This week Utalk answers a question from Caroline in Avignon, France on the issue of hate content on the internet: “Lots of hate comments are being

16/01/2015

World

Learning as easy as A, B, free

This week we visited the UK, Greece, Egypt and America to see how different projects aim to open up the world of knowledge.

09/01/2015

World News

Sony Playstation Network back online after cyber attack

Sony’s Playstation Network is back online, one day after Microsoft’s Xbox was also restored. A hacker group called “Lizard Squad” claimed

27/12/2014

Canada

Liz Gallagher has the name to board the plane as she accepts jilted Jordan's ticket to ride

Not Noel or Liam, but Elizabeth is the lucky Gallagher who gets to travel round the world for free. Toronto resident Jordan Axani issued a plea for a

19/12/2014

France

Parts of Paris crawl to a halt as taxi drivers protest against UberPOP

'Operation Snail' crawls to a start in Paris as French taxi drivers protest against car-sharing apps.

15/12/2014

Sweden

Synthetic marijuana drug Spice causes hundreds of overdoses in Sweden

A synthetic marijuana drug is being blamed for hundreds of overdoses in Sweden this year. The designer drug known as Spice is available legally over

13/12/2014

Spain

Why Spain is saying 'adios' to Google News

11/12/2014

Spain

Uber taxi app under fire from courts and other taxi firms

The US online taxi booking company Uber has had several more set backs since being banned in India where one of its drivers has been accused of

10/12/2014

Real Economy

Europe's road map to a digital economy

09/12/2014

France

France moves to block access to file-sharing site The Pirate Bay

France has become the latest country to take action to block The Pirate Bay. A court in Paris ordered main internet providers to block access to the

05/12/2014

New Zealand

Dotcom dodges custody but faces uphill struggle

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