Published by Hearst-Rodale UK, has re-launched its Men's Health mobile site in a bid to strengthen its digital offering. The mobile site was initially launched last year to capitalise on the growing number of visitors to the website via smartphones. Since its launch mobile page impressions have grown to 1,165,572 per month with 297,000 unique mobile users in June. The new look mobile site has been streamlined to make it easier to access Men's Health content archive, it also has an improved search function and access to the latest articles, blogs, galleries and videos, with a forum to be added …

Telefonica, which remains dominant in Latin America and Spain, is wary of the burgeoning smartphone market becoming too reliant on Android - especially in rapidly emerging markets such as Brazil and Mexico. It has hitched its cart to Mozilla's new Firefox OS, which was formally unveiled last week. As a result, the company has been a key supporter of Mozilla's Boot2Gecko project, which was first seen at Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona this year. It has been under development for 18 months, and Telefonica has been supplying staff and resources for the last 12 months.

More than 500 businesses have signed up to Posse.com, the Sydney-based social media network backed by global investors. Music industry executive Rebekah Campbell created the site, which allows users to share their favourite retailers with friends. Posse will host a beta launch event next week. The project has been backed venture capitalist Bill Tai, who has backed Twitter and is on the board of Scribd, Wotif chief executive Robbie Cooke and MTV global head of sales Dave Sibley.

Outdoor Media Centre has organised a campaign for charity missing people, the launch of which will be the first official role for its new ambassador Kate McCann, whose daughter is still missing. The campaign, produced by Grand Visual, will see a number of billboards publicise missing people from across the UK, through GBP1 million worth of advertising space donated by the outdoor industry, aiming to reach over 10m adults over the summer.

France's data protection watchdog said it will likely wrap up the inquiry of Google's new privacy policy, which it is conducting on behalf of European regulators, in September. France's Commission Nationale de l'Informatique had expected to decide in June whether Google's new approach to privacy that took effect in March conforms with European law, but the process has been slowed as the company provided more information to the regulator.

Despite the European Parliament rejecting the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, some of the treaty's most controversial clauses -- including its criminal enforcement measures -- have surfaced in a leaked copy of a pending Canada-EU Trade Agreement (Ceta), verbatim. Digital rights campaigners fear the insertions in Ceta's intellectual property chapter are evidence of a purposeful strategy by the European Commission to get Acta's most controversial clauses passed in parliament. If this happens, the Commission could argue that Acta cannot be contested on the same grounds it was initially thrown out on.

The Russian version of Wikipedia has shut down for 24 hours in protest at a law that would give the government powers to blacklist certain sites. Visitors to the site see a black line across the site's logo and a message explaining the move. The government says it wants greater powers to block sites that show child pornography, promote teenage suicide, and spread information about drugs. But Wikipedia likens the proposed law to the Great Firewall of China.

Huffington Post has announced the launch of HuffPost Live, a new livestreaming video network. The site, which expanded to include a UK edition a year ago, will livestream 12 hours of original programming, five days a week, with highlights shown overnight and at weekends. According to a release, HuffPost Live is "a cross-platform video experience, distributed online, mobile, and over-the-top (OTT) that allows users to both watch and engage with the stories they are viewing - either live or on-demand." The AOL-owned title today launched HuffPo Live 3,2,1, a section of the website to mark the countdown to broadcast, which …

Americans love to publicly debate it, British people hardly ever pay for it online and Germans prefer to get theirs through more traditional means, according to a survey about media consumption released on Monday. The survey looked at the consumption habits in Britain, the United States, Germany, Denmark and France, and found that TV and online platforms are now the overwhelming choice for news. Although computers remain the most popular medium on which to view news, with at least 74% doing so in the last week across the board, at least 20% had used a mobile for the same purpose …

Eighty-one percent of UK adults are now online compared to a European average of 65%, according to IAB Europe's Mediascope Europe report. It shows that the UK leads the way in terms of online penetration with the number of UK adults online increasing by 11% since 2010 and the number of hours spent online increasing by 17% during the same period. The report also shows the UK consumer's willingness to connect to the internet using a variety of touchpoints. It confirms the widespread adoption of tablets in the UK with one in five (21%) UK adults going online using a …