Industry News Roundup, May 18

by Matt Cannon
18 May 2012

My picks of the latest news from across the IT industry for the week ending Friday 18 May. Britain has 10 million Twitter users, Facebook floats and the UK Government isn't ready for the new cookie laws.

BBC | Cookies: Majority of government sites to miss deadline

Ahead of a nationwide deadline over regulating the use of cookies, the BBC has learned that the "majority" of the UK government's own websites will fail to comply in time.

The Register | Britain has 10 million users on Twitter

The UK is believed to be the world's fourth most active nation of tweeters, after the US, Brazil and Japan, going on a 2011 analysis by Semiocast.

The Guardian | Twitter to use Do Not Track

Twitter announced that it will officially support "Do Not Track," a standardised privacy initiative that has been heavily promoted by the US Federal Trade Commission.

BBC | Facebook valued at $104bn USD

Facebook is floating on the US stock market today and its shared have been valued at $38USD making the company worth an estimated $104bn USD.

Sky | Yahoo boss stands down

Yahoo chief executive Scott Thompson has resigned amid accusations his CV featured a computer science degree that he never received.