Tag: Office for National Statistics
‘E-babies’ will be majority of births by 2037, research shows
By 2037 more babies in the UK will be born to parents who met online than offline, new research about so called 'E-babies' shows. Research by dating platform eharmony and the Imperial College Business School also identified 2035 as the year when more people will start meeting their partners on rather than offline. It suggests…
The Internet saves every British family £780 a year, claims survey
The Internet saves UK consumers a total of almost £21.5 billion, according to a new survey by the Internet Association. This significant contribution for UK families is found by adding together money UK households save through online shopping prices, internet banking, price comparison websites, and working from home online. UK Executive Director Daniel Dyball said:…
Guess how many people in the UK haven't got internet access at home?
It’s quite easy to get complacent, sitting here, on the internet all day, with twelve tabs open and a billion RSS feeds firing in enough information to keep a thousand human brains in a comatose state for decades – but not everyone is so switched on. Brace yourselves for an amazing fact.
One third of all households in the UK haven’t got internet access…
