September has been the month of redesign for the U.S search giants - first Yahoo!, then Bing. And now, Google, the biggest of them all, has unveiled a remarketed app launcher as well as a new logo.

The battle of the search giants is at last heating up, with Yahoo! surpassing Google's traffic in the month of July for the first time since May 2011.

Marissa Mayer's upheaval of ageing search giant Yahoo! continues - this time with a glossy new logo design.

AltaVista, one of the original major search engines of the early online age, will be permanently shut down on July 8th, its parent Yahoo! has revealed.

In the wake of the United States government PRISM revelations, it seems the search market has reacted to the threats to privacy in some small way, with an incremental increase in searches via 'private' search engine Duck Duck Go.

As they did with Yahoo!, Microsoft have partnered with tech giants Apple in the latest version of iOS search program Siri - taking Google out of the equation as competitors ally against it.

ZenithOptimedia have released their Top Thirty Global Media Owners report for 2013, which has ranks the world's largest media groups by their revenues.

‘You're reading. We're hiring.' The simple message from Flickr's recruitment team brilliantly targeted to a small number of the 75 million who use the site.

Yahoo shares dropped 4% as sales of display ads - 40% of Yahoo's revenue - decreased 11%, while search revenue fell 10% to $425 million (£280m).

The furore stirred up by the leaked memo from Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer has inspired huge debate over remote working for employees, particularly at tech companies. No doubt Ms. Mayer believes that in order to revive Yahoo, she needs every one of the 10,000+ staff employed across the country. And while Yahoo have subsequently denied this move to be a 'broad industry view' on working from home, the majority of discussions have been roundly critical of the policy.

Though the world didn't end in 2012, whatever the Mayans predicted surely didn't have all of these disasters in mind...

Facebook are refusing to comment on speculation that the social network is on the verge of launching their own, branded jobs board.