Many newspapers first invested in video ambitions, including newsroom TV studios, a few years ago, but many have also pulled back, baulking at the associated costs. Now at least the online video consumer opportunity is beckoning, with devices like tablets and internet TVs proving more attractive video platforms than the desktop web. Mail Online revenue for the year to Sept. 30 grew 74% to GBP28 million after traffic exceeded 100 million unique monthly browsers.

The service offers a single business more bandwidth than was used at the highest peak for the entire Olympics media network. The 10Gbps trial is in use at electronics business Arcol UK Ltd, where it runs in tandem with the company's existing 330Mbps service on the same fibre cables. The UK's current broadband average is approximately 12Mbps.

Creating high levels of engagement on Twitter is likely to increase website visits and e-commerce purchases for businesses, a study has found. Reported by warc.com, research from Twitter and insights firm Compete found Twitter users who see Tweets from retailers are more likely to visit. Twitter users also visit retail websites at a higher rate (95%) than general internet users (90%).

Lord McAlpine's lawyers have revealed that they are looking at 20 'high profile' tweeters who named the former Conservative party treasurer on Twitter, although it was said that this number could increase. Sally Bercow, wife of the House of Commons Speaker; Guardian columnist George Monbiot and comedian Alan Davies are amongst those who a spokesperson confirmed are being pursued.

According to Experian and Hitwise, this will be the first shopping day in the UK with more than 100 million visits, a 36% increase from last year's Cyber Monday. Online shoppers are expected to spend 15 million hours shopping online on Dec. 3, with the number increasing to 375 million for the month of December. In 2011, the UK made 84.6 million visits to online retail sites on Cyber Monday with Amazon and eBay representing 28% of all retail visits on that day.

The Telegraph recorded an increase in monthly unique browsers of more than 10% in October, the highest rise reported for a UK national newspaper website by Audit Bureau of Circulations. The website saw monthly unique browsers increase from 51.4 million in September to 56.9 million in October. It also recorded the second highest increase in average daily traffic, with a rise of 7.8%.

Many content and service operators have settled on the subscription model with which to charge online. That model isn't new; it's been practised by cable TV services for years. But adoption is uneven, and identifying different markets' existing proclivity toward subscribing is important for any globally-minded operators considering new product launches. So this data showing Europeans' varying receptiveness to subscription is interesting.

A local newspaper reporter has taken to Twitter to live-tweet an application he says is for the press to be barred from the courtroom. Gareth Davies, chief reporter of the Croydon Advertiser tweeted that the defence made a submission for the journalist to be "excluded from being in court on request of a witness". He tweeted that he was told the defence claim was because his "heavy reporting" had intimidated a witness who "feels 'persecuted'" by coverage of the defendant.

Swedish furniture retailer Ikea has launched its first-ever interactive seasonal catalogue, just in time for the December holiday season. The 31-page catalogue, entitled 'Celebrate Brilliantly', features a mix of video clips, interactive 'style solutions', as well as social media integration. It offers the ability to 'pull down' a virtual window shade to change the look of the digital room and each item offers detailed information on the name and price of the item, as well as the option of adding to a shopping list.

Wonga, the so-called payday loans company (that's "usurer" to you and me, readers), has found itself at the wrong end of a Guardian expos after systematically attempting to undermine the reputation of its chief gadfly, anti-payday loans campaigner and Labour MP Stella Creasy. It did so by using a bogus Twitter account to suggest she was "mental", "nuts" and a "self-serving egomaniac".