Expect to see a job-lot of selfies coming from the England World Cup squad in the summer, as Samsung has signed a deal with the English Football Association to be the official consumer electronics and smartphone supplier to the England team. This means that all the players, and the staff will be given Samsung gadgets,…

In a move that is a total shocker, well to us anyhow, Metro.co.uk, the digital version of the hugely successful morning freesheet, is to be merged with the Mail Online. Well so says the HuffPo who add that it will be confirmed tomorrow. There has been a few recent exits like head of content, Martin…

In the same way Medium is particularly appealing for those already using Twitter, Postach.io is a simple blogging platform that's specially designed to link up with Evernote. Although Postach.io is still in beta, this week the service has rolled out a premium tier for its users, which works out at $5 a month or $50…

Kickstarter announced on Monday that there have now been $1 billion worth of pledges to all kinds of its weird, wonderful (and sometimes terrible) projects. Since its launch in April 2009, Kickstarter has become the top crowdfunding site for everything from movie projects to sex toy boxes and more than 5.7 million of us across…

Mobile messaging is becoming more and more popular each day, so you know what that means? More messages! Well yeah, but also, more SELFIES. Call them silly, call them pointless, call them vain, but there's been a lot of discussion over the past year or so about selfies, our selfie-snapping habits, why we take them…

We all know that Facebook's $16 billion ($19 billion if you count additional restricted stock units) acquisition of WhatsApp was REALLY expensive. But have you thought about what else Mark Zuckerberg could have done with the money? Well brilliant new Tumblr Things that are cheaper than WhatsApp is here to help you out with that…

Most of us oddly-shaped people find online shopping a little frustrating, because we only have a super skinny model to show us how our clothes will look in real life. This makes the whole process a bit of a stab in the dark given models generally seem to be a good few feet taller and…

LinkedIn is great for creating a basic online CV and connecting with pushy recruiters. That's what we all know and love (OK tolerate) it for. But when the company starts telling us to celebrate work anniversaries (guys, that's really not a thing), recommend people for the most random of skills and now blog about our…

Launched back in 2012, Tictail is built to simplify the creation and running of online stores. Its no-frills interface, great-looking sites and friendly branding led the Swedish-based startup to be dubbed "Tumblr for e-commerce" by Wired last year, which seems to have stuck ever since. So what makes Tictail so appealing? Well, for starters its…