Wonga, the UK online lender, makes credit judgments within seconds based on thousands of pieces of information, including an applicant's Facebook profile.
In August the number of searches on Bing increased by 5%, while Google searches were down 1.7%, according to UK online measurement firm Nielsen.
In my native UK online sales are now about 11% of total sales: and 10% of the shops in the country are currently empty.
It refers to legislation which allows for the monitoring of UK citizens' online and mobile communications.
It was either sacrifice the netbook or have them on my work laptop throughout the day as they do whatever they do on the UK-based online world of pet monsters.
"Many older people in the UK are still not online, leaving them potentially isolated and at a disadvantage, " said Martha Lane Fox, the UK's Digital Champion.
Another set of numbers is that roughly 10% of UK retail sales now take place online: and roughly 10% of UK retail space is now empty.
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At the moment, the UK government publishes an online list of all meetings its ministers have with lobbyists.
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The Infertility Network UK carried out an online fertility tourism survey, which produced some surprising results.
There have also been developments in the UK's fledgling online university platform, Futurelearn, announced by the Open University last year.
The button, aimed at children and teenagers, will report abuse to the UK Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (Ceop) and Facebook.
One of UK's biggest online dating providers has seen its shares fall by more than half after announcing an audit into the way it operates.
Most other national newspapers in the UK remain free to online readers.
Fiona Bruce is heading the campaign to introduce people to the internet, particularly the over 55s of whom 44% in the UK have never been online.
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The move follows the acquisition last year of blinkbox - recently voted the UK's best online movie service by Channel 5's The Gadget Show - and is the latest step in Tesco's strategy to offer customers new and innovative ways of accessing digital entertainment.
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Amid the investigation into Valle's online correspondence, UK authorities arrested two men last month in Kent, England.
Egg, the online bank of UK life insurance and pensions group Prudential, starts trading on the stock exchange on Monday.
Ofcom figures suggest that 7.5 million UK adults have never been online, and two fifths of those are aged over 75.
We've never really seen it attached to dedicated speakers, however, and that's where both an FCC filing and a sighting at UK retailer HMV's online store raise a few eyebrows.
In a ground-breaking move for cyclists and would-be cyclists, National Cycle Network routes across the UK can now be navigated online using a new bicycle symbol on Google Maps, alongside the options of driving, public transport and walking.
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The Times and Sunday Times were among the first UK national newspapers to charge for online content.
Meanwhile, motorists in the UK have been warned to check online MOT certificates when buying a car, rather than looking at a printed out version.
In just a few years Wonga has a become a massive online lender in the UK by instantly underwriting and dynamically pricing short term loans.
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Last week, a survey for the BBC found that as many as three million homes in the UK might need help to get online at a speed of 2Mbps.
Louise Robinson, president of the Girls' Schools Association, representing head teachers of independent girls' schools in the UK, discussed the implications of online courses in her annual conference speech on Monday.
Martin Bean, the Open University's vice-chancellor, said that the arrival of online courses meant that UK universities could either "stick their heads in the sand" or rise to the international challenge.
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