The Times and The Sunday Times are to offer a new subscription service that will bundle a digital subscription with an electronic device. Customers who subscribe to the Digital Pack for GBP4 per week for 18-months will be able to buy a Google Nexus 32GB tablet at a reduced cost of GBP50 (saving GBP149 from the RRP of GBP199). Alternatively customers can pay GBP299 up front for both the device and the 18-month Digital Pack.

As more high-street banks turn to social media to help with customer queries, the perceived quality level of customer service among these institutions has increased. That's according to a study by Virgin Media Business, cited by freshbusinessthinking.com, which found around two-thirds of UK high street banks are responding to customer queries within an hour thanks to micro-blogging service Twitter.

Over the last year, we have reported on the emergence of Oyster, 24symbols and Bookboard - all planning to offer rental of multiple ebooks for a monthly subscription. But, with the conventional ebook download craze still taking off, can this Spotify- or Netflix-like ebook access model attract consumers so soon? A survey by media strategy agency Oliver & Ohlbaum (O&O) shows 29% of current UK ebook users very interested in such a prospect - and only three percent not at all.

Nineteen percent of teenagers in the UK would answer a mobile ad message based on "trust in the sender" and "appeal of the offer", according to theOrange Exposure 2012/2013 report. The research showed that in the UK, 83% of 11-18 year olds now own a smartphone and this is even higher in Spain, at 95%. Ninety-two percent of UK teens stated that mobile is "a way to always have a media device at hand" and 55% prefer their mobile to any other device because "I can access what I want, when I want".

A junior reporter has been sacked after naming a high-profile TV figure allegedly questioned in connection with the Jimmy Savile sex abuse investigation on Twitter. The Met Police announced on Thursday that they were questioning a man in his 80s under caution as part of Operation Yewtree but refused to confirm his identity to journalists on an off-the-record basis. He was, however, widely identified on Twitter.

tCBS Interactive UK, the online content network for information and entertainment, has announced the appointment of Steve Wing as head of consumer. In his new role Wing will be tasked with ensuring the continued momentum and growth of the UK audience, brand and commercial performance of top consumer technology brand CNET and leading video games news and reviews brand GameSpot.

The European Commission may have various crises on its hands, but that doesn't mean it can't deal with less catastrophic issues... such as tax on digital goods. The Media Briefing had a chat with PwC partner Martin Blanche to find the changes means, and what publishers need to know to make sure they don't get a nasty surprise.

Long-form journalism project Matter and Pocket, an app and platform that allows you to bookmark articles for reading later, have partnered. People who have bought a Matter article can now save it to Pocket and then access it via the app, which offers the ability to read offline. Matter joins other paywalled sites, including the Economist, Financial Times and New York Times, which have similar deals with Pocket (formerly Read It Later), allowing subscribers to those sites to save articles and read them via the app.

ational newspaper editors are reported to have signed up to all of Lord Justice Leveson's "non-statutory recommendations" at a meeting this morning. According to The Guardian, the editors "of every significant Fleet Street title" signed up to 40 of Leveson's first 47 recommendations, in a move that could see a new independent regulator set up with powers to fines newspapers up to GBP1m.

Apple has doubled the global territorial footprint of its iTunes Store by launching the music service in 56 more countries - a move that will bolster the digital download format further in the face of rising competition from streaming services. Apple announced the new availability in the fast-growing markets of Russia, Turkey, India and South Africa plus 52 other countries, almost doubling availability to 119 countries.