Swedish furniture retailer Ikea has launched its first-ever interactive seasonal catalogue, just in time for the December holiday season. The 31-page catalogue, entitled 'Celebrate Brilliantly', features a mix of video clips, interactive 'style solutions', as well as social media integration. It offers the ability to 'pull down' a virtual window shade to change the look of the digital room and each item offers detailed information on the name and price of the item, as well as the option of adding to a shopping list.

Wonga, the so-called payday loans company (that's "usurer" to you and me, readers), has found itself at the wrong end of a Guardian expos after systematically attempting to undermine the reputation of its chief gadfly, anti-payday loans campaigner and Labour MP Stella Creasy. It did so by using a bogus Twitter account to suggest she was "mental", "nuts" and a "self-serving egomaniac".

LOVEFiLM, the Amazon owned film rental service, has announced that it has signed a deal with DHX Media, the kids content provider, to add around 2,000 hours of children's shows to its subscription service. The move means subscribers will be able to stream and rent shows such as Inspector Gadget and Dennis the Menace as well as Mona the Vampire, Paddington bear and Sonic the Hedgehog.

It has been five months since virtual newsagent app lekiosk launched in the UK. The app, which is a marketplace for digital editions of magazines, started in France. Influenced by the impact of the iPod on the music industry, the company looked to produce the app, which operates as a virtual, 3D kiosk for magazine and newspaper publishers, at the same time as the iPad launched in France. Today the app reports to have 600 French titles available through its platform.

Russia is one of the world's most under-performing digital music markets. Now two new services are set to launch in to the country, pushing up legal consumption - but an upstart is stealing a march on the big boy. The launch of the iTunes Store, which had been scheduled for today, has now been "delayed indefinitely", according to local news reports. Two reasons: Apple does not yet have all necessary music licenses, according to Vedomosti, and "retailers do not have gift cards at their disposal so far," according to RIA Novosti.

The mapping and location-based service allows users to save maps for offline viewing and obtain public transport routes, a tool lacking from Apple's Maps, and also includes voice-guided navigation. Nokia had earlier announced that the app would launch 'soon', but few users had expected Apple to approve it so quickly. In a blog post, a Nokia spokesman said that mapping products were "integral" to the Finnish telecoms giant's future and "a key way that we stand out from the crowd."

A new survey has discovered that live blogs are getting 300% more views and 233% more visitors than conventional online articles on the same subject. They also outperform online picture galleries, getting 219% more visitors, according to the research by City University London. Live blogs provide commentary and analysis alongside breaking news rather than summarising the event after it is over. It's a transparent format in which the writers are able to update and amend their commentaries in easily digestible paragraphs.

The MP and anti-payday loans campaigner Stella Creasy has demanded an apology from the online lender Wonga after a Guardian investigation uncovered evidence that an employee of the firm has been using an anonymous Twitter account to publicly attack her, calling her mentally unstable. Wonga's slogan and adverts promise "straight talking money", but company computers appear to have been used to post anonymous comments on blogs critical of its practices and there is evidence that a second Wonga employee has deleted criticism from its Wikipedia page.

Research by Verint Systems found about one in three UK consumers are happy to broadcast their shopping experiences across a social network, be it positive or negative,feedsfloor.com reports. The study saw 7,000 UK consumers questioned on their customer service experiences, with only 49% saying they feel happy with them on the whole. Long wait times was one of the biggest gripes; it was cited by two thirds of consumers as one of their biggest annoyances.

The wife of the Speaker of the House of Commons, has temporarily retired from Twitter on legal advice after her involvement in the misidentification of Lord McAlpine in a sexual abuse case and the naming a child abduction victim through the platform as well. Bercow, who has over 60,000 followers on Twitter, is understood to be one of thousands of people targeted by the lawyers of Lord McAlpine for her inference through the microblogging site that he sexually abused young boys - a claim that has since been withdrawn.