With the adoption of tablets and smartphones, watching TV has become something audiences participate in rather than just sit back and watch. According to former Channel 4 executive Matt Locke, founder of multiplatform producer Storythings, some 60% of UK viewers now have a laptop or tablet computer running while they are watching television and are very often commenting on the show unfolding. "There has been a big consumer uptake of tablets and iPhones; we started noticing people talking about shows while watching them," says Locke.

The 3D news app is on approximately one in four iPads in France and is the highest grossing app for the Apple tablet in the French App Store. Lekiosk is a digital newsstand app for iOS which allows consumers to purchase and start reading magazines easily. Magazines are displayed in a visually intriguing way that is designed to recreate the feeling of reading in print. Users can also create a virtual library of their favourite content to access whenever they want. As you might expect with a real newsstand, browsers can scroll through all available magazines and then purchase them …

BBC News is second for Facebook sharing, behind the Mail Online, which is the most shared British media outlet on Facebook. The Mail Online has an average of 624,278 shares a month accounting for 33% to 40% of news stories. The Mail, which publishes the greatest number of stories of the 10 outlets, was fourth when it came to tweets, behind the BBC, Guardian and Telegraph. The Guardian was the second most shared news source UK news outlet on Twitter, with an average of 265,145 tweets per month, and third most shared outlet on Facebook. A fifth of all tweets …

Online sports broadcaster Perform Group's Global Sports Media Consumption Report, which says that most people will be taking in the Olympics on good old fashioned television. And not by small margins, either. The study shows that 71% will watch the Olympics on television and a meager 16% will watch them online. In England and the rest of Europe, the story is the same - 9% in England and Germany, 11% in France. The only country that breaks free in this category is China, boasting 70% of people watching online.

Upping its stake to 57%, the operator will be able to more effectively compete, with subscriber loyalty schemes as seen with O2 UK's Priority Moments. The Vouchercloud service offers discounts, codes and vouchers for a range of major retailers by using a smartphone's GPS system to locate nearby deals. A voucher can be downloaded onto a device with a single key press and shown to a sales assistant to redeem the discount. Vodafone did not disclose the financial details of the deal or when Vouchercloud would be integrated into its m-commerce services.

If the search engine giant doesn't address its dominance of the web search market by early next month, it faces regulatory intervention and heavy fines. The deadline will bring the first stage of the European antitrust authorities investigation to a close. If Google does not negotiate, regulators will issue a formal "statement of objections" in response to complaints by more than a dozen rivals that it abuses its dominant position in general web to promote its own secondary services such as price comparison. Recent signals from Google have suggested it is in no mood to back down.

New research from Say Media and IPG Media also finds they deliver improved brand metrics and created a more positive impact on advertiser perception compared with cluttered, multi-ad environments. Sites with an uncluttered ad layout are perceived as more useful and trusted. Consumers spend twice as long with ads on clean, uncluttered web pages which feature ads from just one brand. According to Comscore, the average time spent on a web page is steadily decreasing, with users spending an average 40 seconds on a single page.

In the UK and the Netherlands The Pirate Bay is widely censored, but that doesn't mean the site is entirely unavailable. In fact, The Pirate Bay is enjoying the whack-a-mole game they're playing. After several ISPs added the site's new IP-address to their filters, the infamous torrent site has just added another, plus an IPv6 address. Meanwhile, the site's operators are wondering how much court filings cost each time an IP address has to be blocked. Copyright holders around the world are growing increasingly annoyed with The Pirate Bay.

A mom who was trolled mercilessly on Facebook for months and months because of her comments about a TV show contestant has won a court order in Britain ordering Facebook to share the email and Internet addresses of the cyberbullies behind the campaign of cruelty. Nicola Brookes had gone on the social network to post a supportive remark last fall after Frankie Cocozza, an "X-Factor" contestant, was thrown off the British equivalent of "American Idol" for boasting about drug use.

The online music service is investigating the possibility that some of its users passwords have been stolen. Last.fm said its members should change their passwords "as a precautionary measure". The warning follows security breaches at professional social network LinkedIn and eHarmony, the dating website. LinkedIn admitted last week that passwords belonging to six million of its members had been published online. Graham Cluley, an analyst with security firm Sophos, said that around 1.5 million eHarmony members' passwords had been uploaded.