Trinity Mirror has approached rival newspaper groups about merging ad sales as print revenues plunge across the industry. "Campaign" understands the "Daily Mirror" publisher has had informal contact with Telegraph Media Group. Both declined to comment. Trinity Mirror is also believed to have sounded out Guardian Media Group and News UK, although they are believed to be wary of a tie-up.

On 25 May 2018 the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will come into force. Assuming the UK votes to remain in Europe, it will replace the UK Data Protection Act and mean that for the first time, Europe will have a harmonised data protection regime that impacts not only companies based in the EU but also those that want to do business there.

Ever thought the service at your local pizza restaurant was a bit lacklustre? Perhaps you'd prefer to have your order taken by a robot? Robot waiters have been touted as the latest technological revolution in the service industry, and now Pizza Hut is jumping on the bandwagon, recruiting a fleet of walking, talking humanoid robots to take orders and process payments.

During a special session of the public accounts committee, Labour MP Caroline Flint asked Tony Hall "when it comes to an online formats, isn't there a stream of advertising revenue in the future?" Hall replied by saying advertising in the UK would harm the country's broader broadcasting and news ecosystem.

Google's offices in Paris have been raided by police in an investigation into money laundering and "aggravated tax fraud." The dawn raid, which involved around 100 investigators, is part of a probe into whether the Internet giant has evaded corporation tax in France by diverting profits to its European base in Ireland.

Google plans to get rid of passwords on Android apps by the end of 2016. Instead, they will unlock based on who is using them and where. Known as Project Abacus, this new security system would use biometrics -- unique signatures like your typing pattern, your face and your location -- to figure out whether it's really you, rather than relying on a password.

Spotify has turned the music industry on its head by replacing one-off music downloads with an all-you-can-eat subscription streaming service, but it is yet to prove that it can deliver profits. A filing from the Swedish company, registered in Luxembourg, showed that despite revenues almost doubling last year, the company is making a bigger loss than ever.

It has been almost a year since he regained control of the company, and his most pressing problem back then still faces him today: fix Twitter. "We're making progress," Dorsey told me, adding that he considers the most important thing to be the company's ability to devise, develop and release updates to the service. That's going very well, but you know, things take time to change."

Sky News will shut the U.S. version of its Web site as it looks to focus on its UK operation. The U.S. site was launched four years ago to help build the Sky News brand in North America by tailoring stories directly to local readers. Sky has decided to shut the U.S. site, which attracts just 514,000 visits a month, according to SimilarWeb, in favour of building the core site.

Lord Sugar's outdoor media company, Amscreen, has suspended ads on 3,000 screens in garage forecourts around the UK after firing its ad sales partner, Digicom. Amscreen operates screens at petrol stations, including those owned by BP, Shell and Tesco. The company said it "terminated" its ad sales agreement after Digicom failed to make payments.