New Economist report details why Asia trails the West when it comes to internet giants

Customers who have bought an album from Amazon will be able to download an MP3 file of the record for free.

Square Market will be targeted at small and local businesses in the US

Conspiracy theorists vow to ‘expose’ a meeting of the west’s uber-elite who will decide global policy

Apple conspired with major publishers to drive up the price of e-books in a scheme that cost consumers hundreds of millions of dollars, a New York court has heard.

Armed with no more than a bagel and a cold nose, Eleanor Doughty reflects on the meaning of two years at university

Not for her, the endless late nights and equally endless hangovers, says Eleanor Doughty. No, what makes her really happy is an expensive vacuum cleaner...

Clearly, Amazon do their business here. So they should pay tax here too

German workers at the online retailer Amazon staged a one-day walkout yesterday as a dispute with unions over pay and benefits escalated.

Bestselling writer Dan Brown unleashed his latest page turner today as eager fans made Inferno an instant chart-topper.

Somehow, it’s already the middle of 2013. We’ve survived apocalypse scares, generated celebrities who are more influential than politicians, and grown into adulthood without everything we’ve forgotten about Egyptian pharaohs from primary school being a hindrance to everyday life.

You'll never get an e-book reader with the authentic smell of the library, says Eleanor Doughty

Ebooks are not killing the publishing industry as feared by analysts. Quite the opposite, in fact, according to the latest sales figures which show the publishing industry in Britain is booming.

The launch of a big-screen version of the Kindle Fire e-reader in the UK helped Amazon’s total revenues rise 22% to $16.1 billion (£10.5 billion) in the first three months of the year.