China to unveil landmark Hollywood deal

Xi Jinping, China’s vice-president and heir-apparent, will endorse the growing ties between his country and Hollywood on Friday, when he is scheduled to unveil a joint venture between DreamWorks Animation (DWA) and two state-owned Chinese media groups.

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Leveson inquiry most tweeted-about story by UK journalists

British journalists tweeted more about the Leveson inquiry into press standards than the Eurozone crisis or the Syrian revolution in the final quarter of 2011, according to the latest survey of 340,000 tweets by PR firm Portland.

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Apple chief insists on commitment to improve Chinese labour conditions

Apple chief executive Tim Cook has insisted that the company is committed to improving conditions for workers in its supply chain and eradicating underage labour

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Anonymous publishes trove of emails from Haditha marine law firm

Hackers associated with the Anonymous activist group have leaked a trove of emails hacked from the law firm representing staff sergeant Frank Wuterich, accused of leading a group of Marines responsible for the deaths of 24 unarmed Iraqi civilians at Haditha.

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UK online economy valued at £82bn

The UK internet economy has been valued at £82bn ahead of the publication of the government green paper on communications that will help define regulation of the sector

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Glam Media moves closer to IPO

Glam Media, a large network of lifestyle blogs that has been valued at close to $1bn, is close to finalising plans to file for an initial public offering by April, at the same time as it attempts to reconfigure its business using bespoke social networks

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Wikipedia begins blackout in protest against US anti-piracy laws

Wikipedia has taken its English-language content offline as part of a "day of darkness" in protest at US anti-piracy laws that it says could "fatally damage the free and open internet" and "severely limit people's access to online information".

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Jerry Yang resigns from Yahoo

The end of an internet era has come with the resignation of Jerry Yang, the 43-year-old co-founder of Yahoo, from his position on the company's board after 16 years.

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YouView spent almost £20m in first nine months

Video-on-demand joint venture backed by BBC, ITV, TalkTalk, Channel 4, Channel 5 and BT still has no set-top boxes to offer. The much-delayed video-on-demand service YouView spent almost £20m in its first nine months of operation and paid more than £1m to staff.

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News Corp to launch Xbox 360 apps

Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation is to launch a number of apps on the Xbox 360 allowing paid subscribers access to TV shows, news and video content from brands including Fox and the Wall Street Journal.

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Netflix enters UK video on demand market with tempting deals

US digital film business Netflix will this week launch an ad campaign and a string of new film and TV deals, provoking scramble for subscribers against rivals such as Amazon's LoveFilm.

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BSkyB buys stake in app firm Zeebox

BSkyB has taken a 10% stake in Zeebox – an app that combines social networking, live programme information and real-time viewing figures – just two months after it was launched by former BBC technology chief Anthony Rose.

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Elisabeth Murdoch to deliver 2012 MacTaggart lecture

Elisabeth Murdoch – the founder of production company Shine, maker of shows such as Masterchef and Merlin – is to give the MacTaggart lecture at this year's MediaGuardian Edinburgh International Television Festival.

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Media start-ups flourish in south-west

Spider Eye, a small west country animation company, pitched its pre-school children’s cartoon for six years before it found a buyer.

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Nokia Lumia 800 'set to trail iPhone 4S'

Early forecasts predict Finnish firm's make-or-break Windows smartphone will shift between 500,000 and 1m by Christmas

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Second BBC boss discusses U-turn on local radio cuts

BBC chief operating officer Caroline Thomson says reversal of controversial local radio cuts is 'not out of the question'

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Adobe kills mobile Flash, giving Steve Jobs the last laugh

Focus in future will be on HTML5 as mobile world shifts towards non-proprietary open standards – and now questions will linger over use of Flash on desktop

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BBC Worldwide focuses ecommerce strategy on personalised content and products

BBC Worldwide is putting personalised on-demand content and products at the heart of its ecommerce strategy ahead of a major platform overhaul

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Index Ventures launches €500m fund to invest in late-stage startups

Index Ventures, the London-based venture capital firm best known for investing in LoveFilm and Skype, has defied the eurozone debt crisis to launch a €500m (£429m) fund to invest in late-stage startups in Europe

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BBC iPlayer’s Rose returns with social TV app Zeebox

Anthony Rose, technical driving force behind the BBC iPlayer and before that Kazaa, this week returns to the start-up world with Zeebox, an iPad app designed to tap the growing trend for “dual screening”.

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