A new digital radio transmitter will be turned on on 4 July. Around 250,000 more people in Manchester will be able to listen to DAB radio, which will reach 90% of households in the area. To highlight the expansion, Key 103's digital frequency will be rebranded to Key 103D and will air 20-minutes of exclusive digital-only content every hour, including live tracks from Ed Sheeran and Jessie J. Manchester Digital Day will be promoted on-air throughout this week and will offer listeners the chance to win Roberts Elise digital radios or to have their workplace fitted out with digital radios.

Late on Monday, Bobbie Johnson reports, just before the expiration of a deadline imposed in May by the European Commission, news hit that Eric Schmidt had sent a letter to the EC competition chief Joaquin Almunia. "In it, he is said to have responded to a number of questions about Google's behavior in the search market - offering what is described as a "settlement offer." Sounds like a step forward, right? But hang on a minute: this is complicated stuff. So let's try parsing this for a second."

A new free print magazine is for youngsters will be published in Sunderland later this month - five months after it launched as an e-magazine in February. Spark Magazine is a partnership between community media project Spark Sunderland, which is run by volunteers and students from around the city, and advertising and printing is managed by Johnston Press daily the Sunderland Echo. Spark Sunderland said 6,000 copies of the magazine will be printed six times a year and distributed around the city. The first print issue is being launched to coincide with the Sunderland International Airshow on 20 July.

Associated Newspapers is aiming to expand Mail Online, with reporters on the Daily Mail briefed that the online operation is hoping to open new bureaux in Toronto, Delhi and Sydney - and possibly a Spanish-language service. Print reporters were told about the digital expansion by the Daily Mail news editor, Ben Taylor, last week and were told that there would be opportunities to transfer to the web news operation. They were also told that Associated wants to beef up its operations in London, New York and L.A., where 70 staff are already employed to churn out a fast and furious …

Booming digital revenues now make up almost 80% of sales at Auto Trader and could hasten the end of the print version of the car-classifieds magazine in 12-18 months. Annual turnover rose only 1% to GBP257.2 million, but digital sales, from the web and smartphones, jumped 11% to GBP202 million. Auto Trader is a rare example of a print title that transformed itself successfully into a digital brand, with operating profits before exceptionals up 9% to GBP129 million.

Across Europe, 191.5 million females went online during May 2012, representing 48.4% of the total internet audience and 46.9% of time spent online, according to figures from comScore. Tumblr.com had the highest usage among women, who accounted for 69% of time spent on the social network. German retail site Otto Gruppe (68.8%) and Groupon (61.7%) rounded-out the top three websites for women during the month. The total amount of time spent on Mail.ru websites was particularly high, with women spending 16,686 minutes. Spil Games sites ranked second with a total 768 minutes spent online.

The report found that the main reason for 'bikini photo sabotage' on social media sites was that the person 'didn't like' that friend anymore; while a nearly third (32%) claimed that the friends in question had 'done the same to them'. The quarter of women who admitted uploading ugly photos of their friends in swimsuits, also disclosed that they knew the subjects of their snaps would be unhappy with the shot. Furthermore, just under half claimed to have uploaded a picture of a friend in an 'unflattering outfit' that they knew their friend would be annoyed about, whilst two fifths …

Websites offering illicit streams of live television are the fastest-growing area of online piracy, according to a joint report by Googleand PRS for Music. The study analysed a sample of 153 sites "believed to be significantly infringing copyright" to see the business models that are most commonly used by providers. It discovered six areas of core activity -- Live TV Gateway, Peer-to-Peer (P2P) Community, Subscription Community, Music Transaction, Rewarded Freemium and Embedded Streaming.

Four days into the England riots, Terry Sweeney, gold commander of Greater Manchester police, had to make a decision. Rioting had already spread from London to Birmingham to Liverpool - would Manchester be next? The messages coming into his command centre in Sedgley Park were mixed: he had information that 600 people were about to gather in Wigan, and intelligence about trouble brewing in Rochdale and Salford. "We had about six pieces of seamless strand information - some social media, some internal intelligence," the assistant chief constable said. "But nothing gave any kind of clarity."

This is the growing phenomenon of watching a show while engaging with it, or with other viewers in real-time via the internet. Passive viewing is on the way out, and so is yelling at the box when we don't agree with something. Instead, we can tweet our thoughts back to the show, ''like'' it on Facebook (or post comments) and even blog about it in detail. Social TV is also drawing viewers back into real-time viewing habits that have been challenged by time-shifting and online piracy.