Reminiscent of Second World War radio communications, the public set Twitter alight with jokes, code and cryptic messages after the first round of presidential election results. "Netherlands-Hungary qualify for return leg," said one tweet in a play on the name of Socialist challenger Francois Hollande and the origin of President Nicolas Sarkozy's father. Seeking to enforce a 1977 law that imposed a blackout on disclosing results, authorities threatened fines of up to 75,000 euros for breaches. In return, they got derision and defiance.

A study reveals that Brits are twice as likely to buy on mobile devices as Americans. In the UK, mobile was found to account for 9.1% of all e-commerce sales with mobile accounting for only 4.6% in the U.S. According to Rich Relevance's 2012 Q1 Shopping Insights Mobile Study, the average shopper purchased GBP109.68 on mobile devices overall. The iPad was the most used device, accounting for 82% of all mobile spending. When it came to which type of mobile device used to make purchases Apple products dominated in the UK.

Conservative MP Louise Mensch has successfully pushed for a debate on the future of local newspapers -- to take place in Parliament on 25 April -- by tweeting about the news that Johnston Press plans to switch two Northamptonshire papers from daily to weekly schedules. On Twitter, she expressed concern at the company's plan to complement the weekly editions with paid-for iPad apps, saying, "Lots of Corby folk can't afford iPads to use an app. I will seek a meeting [with] Johnston Press to ask if they've got this one right." Debate starts at 4 p.m. in Westminster Hall.

Under a new proposal that Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt will announce later this year, adults would be asked if they want access to pornographic sites in the wake of growing fears that children are becoming addicted to obscene online material. Whitehall sources confirmed that Mr Hunt had decided against an outright ban although they denied a report that this was on civil liberties grounds. It was also not clear if parents would be asked on every occasion if they wanted to access porn sites, or just once.

Manchester.TV is the brainchild of James Black, who has dreamt for years of creating a channel that will show off the city at its very best. It was the BBC's intention to win a bigger audience outside of the South of England when the corporation moved to MediaCityUK, Salford, and the loyalty of Mancunians is an important part of that. The online station promises to find the news, features and stories that the people of Manchester want to hear about.

Standards expected of doctors should not change because they are communicating through social media rather than face-to-face, phone or email, says the General Medical Council. Commenting on the draft social media guidance Niall Dickson, chief executive of the GMC, said: "Online communication has become a key part of every doctor's personal and professional life, and the use of social media is now very common. The new explanatory guidance will come into effect later this year when published with a new edition of 'Good Medical Practice'.

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.