The pact will offer customers movies including DreamWorks' "War Horse", Disney's "The Muppets" and Disney Pixar's "Toy Story" and TV shows such as "Lost" and "Grey's Anatomy" from Disney's ABC Studios. Blinkbox will offer titles from Disney stables to buy or rent, with some day-and-date with their DVD rollout, to their computer, smart TVs, games consoles and tablet devices without subscription. The online operator also said" Aladdin", "Beauty and the Beast" and "Mary Poppins" would also be made available to buy.

The number of public "hotspots" across Britain is soaring - up from 25,000 in 2009 to over 175,000, according to analysts at Informa - as businesses and local councils rush to offer people easy access to the internet via a wireless broadband connection, rather than mobile. Informa reckons the number of public hotspots could increase fivefold by 2015 - and there are millions more private hotspots in offices and homes. Telecom and mobile firms are competing to meet this growing demand, with new deals unveiled every day.

The EU's antitrust authority is investigating Motorola Mobility's licensing of standards=essential patents. The handset, which is soon to be owned by Google, is alleged to have "abused" its strong position in some standards by withholding patents or demanding unreasonable fees to disadvantage rivals. If it is found in break of European competition law, Motorola Mobility could face fines of up to 10% of its global annual turnover.

The German publisher will buy the UK's No. 2 job classifieds site as it ramps up an offensive. Springer has been buying lots of such sites, including French property ads site SeLoger for EUR633 million. Last month, it targeted "a growth offensive in the area of digital classifieds", bundling its existing portfolio of sites including StepStone in to a new joint venture, Axel Springer Digital Classifieds, with the General Atlantic Atlantic investment group. Springer holds 70% of the JV. TotalJobs audited traffic stands at a decade record of 289,072 daily average browsers.

Google brings its brand of tear-jerking creativity to the U.K. with "Plus Tom," the first TV spot for Google+ across the pond. Created out of Adam & Eve London and directed by Simon Ellis, it follows a similar aesthetic as stateside work for the company out of BBH New York. Benedict Cumberbatch narrates Shakespeare's The Seven Ages of Man, while the video chronicles the life of a man named Tom, from birth to meeting his own grandchildren.

Nearly half of business owners are concerned about their employees using work time to tweet and another 15% are "very concerned" about time wasting. In the same survey, 63% of workers said they spend a brief amount of time on Twitter. One businessman said the company finds it ever more difficult to enforce bans against the use of social network sites. Worse still, some workers phone in sick then post about going to the shops, putting co-workers who follow them in a bind.

Facebook denies that it missed a March 31 deadline to comply with European data protection laws. TechCrunch says the social network, based internationally in Ireland, is working on changes that will be implemented in time for a later deadline of July 31. The pressure group, europe-v-facebook.org, was formed last year after some Austrian students filed 22 privacy violations against Facebook. It is now encouraging consumers to make formal complaints to the European Commission.

Retail and consumer-facing industries now comprise more than a quarter of internet display ads, says the Internet Advertising Bureau, which total GBP4.8 billion. They outpace financial services display ads, which are 15% of total. The firm cites the popularity of watching videos online and the growth of advertising on social media sites like Facebook for the increases.

The Federal Court has dealt Google a blow in finding for the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) on Tuesday that the search giant engages in false and misleading advertising. In overturning a previous judgment, the court said that ads using keywords for Honda, Harvey World Travel, Alpha Dog Training and Just 4X4 Magazine were published by Google and led consumers to rival company websites. It ordered Google to pay the ACCC’s costs. Google said it was disappointed by the ruling.

If you try to do a search in English, images drop from the top of the screen and weigh down the search bar. Feeling lucky? You'll get gold Google coins. The search giant used to direct Chinese users to its Hong Kong page but stopped after the Chinese government threatened to take away its license. So is this new landing page a protest of sorts or just more droll Google humor?