Americans can’t live without the web – but social media is a different story

With its 25th birthday coming up in March, the internet is the most popular millennial in America. New data from the Pew Research Internet Project illustrates America’s embrace of – and increasing reliance on – the internet since the 1990s. More than half of Americans (53%) admit they would find the internet “very hard” to give up, compared with 38%

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Groupon: from dotcom star to just another coupon business

Last November, Andrew Mason, former music student turned internet wunderkind, was celebrating. Groupon, the daily deals site he founded and at that point "the fastest-growing company ever", had just raised $700m and was being valued at $13bn. It was the biggest technology flotation since Google. Mason had even been given the ultimate Google seal of approval, having recently turned down

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