Two of the seven teams are from Estonia, and one each from Croatia, Ukraine, Germany, The Netherlands and UK. The projects will be supported by a squad of international mentors. The program starts on April 23 and includes three steps: shaping (3 weeks), building (4 weeks) and selling (3 weeks), supported by Wise Guys mentors. There will be an Investor Day in Tallinn on June 30th, followed by one in London on July 6th. Startup Wise Guys, launched few months ago, is a joint effort of the players in Estonian startup ecosystem to bring international mentors to Estonia and attract …

YouTube is facing a potentially huge bill for music royalties after the Google-owned website lost a key court battle in Germany over copyrighted content. On Friday, a court in Hamburg ruled that YouTube must take responsibility for all the content that users post on its site. Gema, a royalty collection group in Germany, had called on the online service to install term-based filters that can detect when users post clips of music from its artists.

Editor Martin Clarke predicted GBP25 million in revenue in a presentation to investors and rejected accusations the most popular newspaper website in the world -- says comScore, gets traffic by focusing on stories that will be picked up by search engines and social networking sites. Clarke also gave details of the revenue breakdown for the online assets owned by the publisher of the Daily Mail, Metro and Mail on Sunday.

Jointly owned by nine Belgian publishers, GoPress is the latest joint digital news kiosk. It is rolling out softly to offer chargeable access to replica editions. It is powered jointly by digital newspaper scanning agencies Mediargus, which is owned by Belgian newspapers, and PressBanking to make the editions available as HTML5 across multiple devices. But editions, 32 of which are so far available, are priced individually rather than with a single pricepoint for the whole kaboodle.

On Friday, the nation welcomed the service, which provides streaming movies and TV on demand as well as titles for rent. It will be free initially, allowing new users to watch up to 10 hours without entering credit card information or 30 days with that information. Both offers provide access to the entire catalog, and will include the ability to stream from desktop, tablet or mobile. After the free trial ends, Youzee's subscription service is 6.99 euros monthly. The service also includes social sharing options built-in, which let its users post to Facebook and Twitter.

The latest Global Mobile Media Forecast by Strategy Analytics shows that in-app advertising reached $1.7 billion in Western Europe and the U.S., overtaking display ads on the mobile web at $934.5 million. According to the report, consumer spending on mobile media content including apps and services hit $121.8 billion in 2011. The app market was the second highest contributor to that figure behind data plans and mobile web browsing, with 23 billion apps being downloaded globally in 2011.

Justin Knapp, 30, from Indianapolis, has edited Wikipedia at a rate of 385 edits per day since March 2005. The user with the second-most edits is Rich Farmbrough, from the UK. Wikipedia has around 90,000 editors who regularly contribute to the online encyclopaedia. Knapp, who has degrees in philosophy and political science, says of his feat: "Being suddenly and involuntarily unemployed with do that to you."

For their upcoming art exhibit, Greatest Hits of Melbourne commissioned scent maker Air Aroma to create a scent that is created by unwrapping a newly purchased Appple product. "That was a first," admitted Rebecca Ebbecke, COO of Air Aroma. The scent incorporates elements of the plastic wrap on the box, the ink on the cardboard, the smell of the plastic inside and the aluminum of the laptop fresh from the factory. So how does the concocted scent compare with the actual MacBook? Virtually identical, Ebbecke said. "Our perfumers are very, very good at what they do."

Big consumer brands are thinking of this year's Summer Games as a way to get people talking on Facebook, in particular, about them. Four years ago, it was very much about paid media. But now brands foresee much chatter during the two weeks. By the end of last year, some 794 million people visited Facebook each month, and each spent an average of 377 minutes - more than 6 hours - on the site, according to comScore Inc. In 2008, Facebook had just 145 million users.

Dominic Grieve says, instead, the suggestion that privacy injunctions routinely be served on internet companies as well as newspapers and broadcasters is "common sense." Grieve added that social networks must "act responsibly" and obey the law of the land, but said that "excessive regulation" of cyberspace could pose a threat to civil liberties online. It was his strongest intervention yet on regulation of the web.