Google to create virtual tour of world's top galleries / Facebook buys Instagram for $1 billion

Google to create virtual tour of world's top galleries Google has adapted its Street View technology to map galleries and museums around the world so that people can take free virtual tours online. The second phase of the Google Art Project, which was announced in February, has seen the firm a..more Facebook buys Instagram for $1 billion Facebook has just announced that it has bought the Instagram photo-sharing service for a cool $1 billion (around £630 million).The shock acquisition comes just days after the filter-friendly application launched an Android app to sit alongside ..more Anonymous claims responsibility for Home Office website hack Anonymous says it is behind an attack which brought down the government's official Home Office website this weekend. The Hacktivist group is said to have used a simple denial of service attack, which it had first announced via Twitter on Wednesday, p..more Sony cutting 10,000 jobs in attempt to return to profitability Sony will cut 10,000 jobs, a hefty 6 percent of its total employees, in a bid to send the company back into the black, reports Japanese newspaper Nikkei.Sony previously laid off 10,000 workers in 2005 and axed 8,000 temporary positions in 2008 in sim..more Apple's Tim Cook becomes highest-paid CEO Apple Inc's Tim Cook was the highest-paid chief executive officer in the US last year as compensation gained 2 per cent overall from 2010, the New York Times reported. Cook received about $378 million, which includes salary, perks and bon..more More From TechGig Latest News HTML5 Features Can Drive Up Mobile Websites' Usage By Up To 28% Woopra's New Dashboard Lets Publishers See Exactly Who's Visiting Their Site YouTube Founders Building Mysterious Magazine Publishing App How Google is using OpenFlow to lower its network costs New Analytics Dashboard for Infochimps.com Facebook Buying Instagram Makes Perfect Sense LG plans to launch a 'thinking smartphone' AOL sells 800 patents to Microsoft in $1 billion deal See more news >>