A spokesperson for the company confirmed the possibility following an interview with Johnston's chief executive Ashley Highfield last week. In it, Highfield confirmed a raft of changes to be implemented, including scrapping the roles of editor in chief at the Scotsman Publications Ltd, the post of managing director at Angus County Press and the position of divisional newspaper sales director. The group also announced a decision to renounce paywalls in favour of app development.

After signing up to getlunched.com, users can search profiles of people with whom they might want to eat. The site's co-founder Matt Bandy says that the lunch hour is often wasted in London, citing the pressure of the economic climate, meaning workers do not want to appear to take a long break. While it's not in any employer's interest to revert to the long boozy lunches of the 1980s, experts agree that an engaging conversation is a prime motivator. After selecting a perspective lunch partner on getlunched.com, the next step is to agree terms. Clicking on an "I'm buying", "You're …

A political blogger called John Graham Kerlen, who writes under the name Olly Cromwell, has been convicted of sending "grossly offensive malicious communications" after calling a Bexley councillor the c-word on Twitter and inviting people to post faeces to the councillor's house. He will be sentenced on 9 May and could receive a custodial sentence of up to six months in jail. The blogger has a long history of dispute with the Bexley Council.

The on-demand music service launched on Monday in the two countries through a partnership with MCM Media, a producer of entertainment content for radio, digital, TV, and events. Australians' appetite for music, the country's maturing digital market and finding a strong partner on the ground were the foundations for the digital music firm's decision to set-up Down Under, according to Nic Jones, the exec tasked with rolling-out Vevo globally. At launch, the homepage of Vevo's Australasian service features promos for Australian pop singer Delta Goodrem and New Zealand alternative pop group The Naked & Famous alongside a slew of internationals.

Switzerland's Myriad Group is buying a UK-based rival, Synchronica, for GBP23.9 million in what appears to be an all-share deal. Myriad says the deal will make it one of the biggest providers of messaging services in the world. Together they provide messaging services to a huge range of tier-one carriers, covering some 2.5 billion subscribers and 100 carriers and 25 OEMs worldwide. Myriad CEO Simon Wilkinson becomes Synchronica executive chairman. Myriad's CFO James Bodha is now an executive director at Synchronica.

The purchase of Jobrapido is a significant move to expand Daily Mail and General Trust's online advertising business overseas. The site, which was founded in 2006, claims to be the world's second-largest international job-search engine with 32 million monthly visitors in 50 countries. Profits were about GBP5 million last year on sales of GBP20 million.

Five of its daily newspapers - the Halifax Courier, Scarborough Evening News, Northampton Chronicle & Echo, Peterborough Evening Telegraph and the Northamptonshire Evening Telegraph - will be relaunched as weekly titles by the end of May. Johnston Press said it would launch new iPad versions of the titles, as well as 24-hour news coverage online. A spokesman said that the Scotsman and the Yorkshire Post, the publisher's leading daily titles, would not go weekly as part of the shift.

Mike Duerksen, from Winnipeg, Canada, sent dozens of tweets with the hashtag #MikeProposes as he live-tweeted his extravagant proposal to his girlfriend Janelle Freed, and gained hundreds of new followers as Twitter users followed his every move on Friday. Duerksen announced his plans late on Thursday night, tweeting: "Tomorrow I'm proposing to my girlfriend. I'll be using the hashtag #MikeProposes. Follow along! #Winnipeg" He then gave details of his plans and the couple's history, adding: "Yes I think she'll say yes."

Turkey has the highest penetration for sports sites, with 70.7% accessing the sites, per comScore. Ireland, Spain and the UK also have high penetrations at 70%, 65.9% and 64.3%, respectively. Russia dominates in terms of total online audience with 54.6 million users going online during the month, followed by Germany with 50.9 million users. Males accounted for 58.6% of the web traffic to sports sites and females 41.3%. The average male user spent 68 minutes consuming sports content compared to 36.5 minutes for the average female.

Michael Grade urged broadcasters to start charging for online viewing, calling for micropayments for such TV shows as Downton Abbey. But he said viewers were now more willing to pay. "If you download an app for 99p, you don't even think about it," he said. "Take the example of missing an episode of Downton Abbey. You say to yourself, 'Here's a chance to watch it on the train for GBP1.25.' You wouldn't even think about it. Or you're sitting at home and there is nothing on TV tonight. 'I know, let's watch that episode of Spooks we missed for 25p'."