LOVEFiLM, the Amazon owned film rental service, has announced that it has signed a deal with DHX Media, the kids content provider, to add around 2,000 hours of children's shows to its subscription service. The move means subscribers will be able to stream and rent shows such as Inspector Gadget and Dennis the Menace as well as Mona the Vampire, Paddington bear and Sonic the Hedgehog.

It has been five months since virtual newsagent app lekiosk launched in the UK. The app, which is a marketplace for digital editions of magazines, started in France. Influenced by the impact of the iPod on the music industry, the company looked to produce the app, which operates as a virtual, 3D kiosk for magazine and newspaper publishers, at the same time as the iPad launched in France. Today the app reports to have 600 French titles available through its platform.

Russia is one of the world's most under-performing digital music markets. Now two new services are set to launch in to the country, pushing up legal consumption - but an upstart is stealing a march on the big boy. The launch of the iTunes Store, which had been scheduled for today, has now been "delayed indefinitely", according to local news reports. Two reasons: Apple does not yet have all necessary music licenses, according to Vedomosti, and "retailers do not have gift cards at their disposal so far," according to RIA Novosti.

The mapping and location-based service allows users to save maps for offline viewing and obtain public transport routes, a tool lacking from Apple's Maps, and also includes voice-guided navigation. Nokia had earlier announced that the app would launch 'soon', but few users had expected Apple to approve it so quickly. In a blog post, a Nokia spokesman said that mapping products were "integral" to the Finnish telecoms giant's future and "a key way that we stand out from the crowd."

A new survey has discovered that live blogs are getting 300% more views and 233% more visitors than conventional online articles on the same subject. They also outperform online picture galleries, getting 219% more visitors, according to the research by City University London. Live blogs provide commentary and analysis alongside breaking news rather than summarising the event after it is over. It's a transparent format in which the writers are able to update and amend their commentaries in easily digestible paragraphs.

The MP and anti-payday loans campaigner Stella Creasy has demanded an apology from the online lender Wonga after a Guardian investigation uncovered evidence that an employee of the firm has been using an anonymous Twitter account to publicly attack her, calling her mentally unstable. Wonga's slogan and adverts promise "straight talking money", but company computers appear to have been used to post anonymous comments on blogs critical of its practices and there is evidence that a second Wonga employee has deleted criticism from its Wikipedia page.

Research by Verint Systems found about one in three UK consumers are happy to broadcast their shopping experiences across a social network, be it positive or negative,feedsfloor.com reports. The study saw 7,000 UK consumers questioned on their customer service experiences, with only 49% saying they feel happy with them on the whole. Long wait times was one of the biggest gripes; it was cited by two thirds of consumers as one of their biggest annoyances.

The wife of the Speaker of the House of Commons, has temporarily retired from Twitter on legal advice after her involvement in the misidentification of Lord McAlpine in a sexual abuse case and the naming a child abduction victim through the platform as well. Bercow, who has over 60,000 followers on Twitter, is understood to be one of thousands of people targeted by the lawyers of Lord McAlpine for her inference through the microblogging site that he sexually abused young boys - a claim that has since been withdrawn.

Emap has spun-off its media titles into a new business led by former Broadcast editor Conor Dignam ahead of an expected management buyout. Dignam is currently MD of the media brands Broadcast, Screen International and shots - which cover TV, film and advertising respectively. He is now chief executive of a new business unit called Media Business Insight.

Aegis Group is strengthening its iProspect offering in the Netherlands and Belgium with the acquisition of performance and search agency Netsociety, for an undisclosed sum. Established in 2007, Netsociety focuses on search marketing and digital performance media. It has offices in Amsterdam and Brussels and lists Thomas Cook, ING, ABN AMRO and KLM among its clients.