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Sci/Tech Google chairman: 'You can't just have austerity' 23 May 2012 Channel 4 News

Exclusive: As European leaders attend a key summit, Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt tells Channel 4 News that austerity by itself "is a pretty negative prescription".

Facebook share price flop: If I was CEO, I¿d give each user a share 21 May 2012

Benjamin Cohen argues that if he was the CEO of Facebook, he'd have part mutualised the business. In other words, giving each Facebok user one (non-voting) share in the company, at a notional value of

Facebook is floating not flying or sinking after stock market debut 18 May 2012

Facebook finally floated on the stock market today, after a lot of hype and spin. It's a moment when social networking really came of age and it's now one of the most valuable companies in the world.

General Motors is logging off Facebook adverts but the rest of us won't 16 May 2012

Benjamin Cohen on why General Motors has stopped advertising on Facebook just days before its IPO and why we all might start paying Facebook to advertise our own news to our friends.

Sci/Tech Android apps share personal data with advertisers 04 March 2012 Benjamin Cohen

Many of the applications which users load onto their Android mobile phones are sharing personal data with advertisers without people's knowledge or permission, Channel 4 News has learned.

Sci/Tech What does Google know about you? 01 March 2012 Channel 4 News

From your phone number to the video you showed your brother on YouTube - Google knows it all, thanks to its new privacy policy, as Channel 4 News discovers.

Is Facebook Subscribe losing me friends? 27 February 2012

Benjamin Cohen worries that his use of Facebook Subscribe might be alienating his friends while at the same time opening his journalism to the public.

World / China Chinese internet users 'occupy' Obama's Google+ page 27 February 2012 Channel 4 News

Chinese internet users have taken advantage of a temporary breach in the country's firewall by flooding one of the US president's social networking pages with calls for greater freedom.

Why I made an It Gets Better video on being gay and Jewish 07 February 2012

On Friday afternoon, I posted a video to YouTube. It was a historic moment for me because I haven¿t actually posted very much on there before but also it was because for the first time officially, I

The 'fact' merry-go-round undermining Wikipedia 18 January 2012

Wikipedia relies on newspaper references to back up its facts. But what if the newspapers print what they read on wikipedia in the first place asks Ben Cohen

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