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  • Spotify finds its feet within the music industry. Sort of.

    Thanks to new research published by the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre, a study has concluded that Spotify is helping win the battle against digital piracy. After examining the effects of legal streaming on torrent downloads, researchers were able to conclude that for every 47 streams, the number of illegal downloads decreases by one. Launched […]

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  • HMRC drops Microsoft for Google services

    Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC) will be the first major governmental department to drop traditional Microsoft software and services and replace them with Google Apps. HMRC, the governmental department that deals with corporation tax, will have more than 70,000 employees making the switch, joining 2,500 Cabinet Office users already using Gmail. A government blog, […]

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  • Google adds a buy button to search results

    Speaking at the Code Conference in California on Wednesday, Omid Kordestani, Google’s chief business officer, said that the search engine will be adding a ‘buy button’ in its search results. In what Kordestani described as an ‘imminent change’, it means that users will soon be able to buy products straight from the search results – […]

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  • Leeds – Google’s new UK HQ location

    According to leaked insider information, Google is now planning to move it’s UK Headquarters from London to Leeds. Leeds is a rapidly growing city. It is the third largest city in the UK, which has had a strong technology presence for many years; it is often referred to as the ‘digital hub’ of the north, and with good reason.

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