Google has threatened to exclude French media sites from search results if France goes ahead with plans to make search engines to pay for content. In a letter sent to several ministerial offices, Google said such a law "would threaten its very existence". French newspaper publishers have been pushing for the law, saying it is unfair that Google receives advertising revenue from searches for news.

As digital reading expands globally, it won't look the way it has in the West. In particular, mobile phones could be key in less wealthy countries, but many of those opportunities are so far untapped. "I've been perplexed by the relative lack of interest for books on mobile," Andrew Bud of the Mobile Entertainment Forum told Publishing Perspectives at the Frankfurt Book Fair. "Yes, it's a harder sale, but ... there is an opportunity for publishers to become a stronger part of this morphing market."

The Guardian today invited public viewing of its beta responsive website project, although the news outlet emphasised that it is a "work-in-progress" and "still in its early stages". Currently the Guardian advises that users view the responsive site on mobile devices for now, "as this is our design starting point". In a blog post outlining the beta site, client side web developer Matt Andrews said "the responsive aspect of the project is still fairly brief".

The Swedish file sharing site Pirate Bay has moved its server infrastructure to the cloud in an attempt to avoid raids that could knockit offline. Blamed for supporting illegal file-sharing, the site will now commence operations from cloud-hosting providers across the world. The Pirate Bay told TorrentFreak that their shift towards the cloud would allow them to move from country to country, crossing borders seamlessly without downtime.

British-born Tina Brown, previously editor of The New Yorker and Tatler magazines, said sales of America's second-largest selling weekly had been "increasingly affected by the challenging print advertising environment". The print edition of the magazine will cease to exist after 80 years of publication, and will go digital-only from early 2013, she said in a statement. The new digital publication will be known as Newsweek Global.

The Twitter account of a neo-Nazi group has been blocked in Germany in response to a request from authorities in that country. It is the first case of Twitter blocking an account in just one country, nine months after the company announced the ability to withhold content in specific countries while keeping it available to the rest of the world.

Founded in 2008, Newscred licenses journalism from sources including Reuters and The Economist and syndicates it to publishers and brands. Daylife, founded in 2007, is a news aggregation service that builds tools to automatically display collections of articles. Daylife's employees will take new roles within NewsCred, the company said, and its products are likely to remain but will be rebranded.

Ross Brown, a former editor of FHM magazine - purveyor of such feminist series as the 100 sexiest women in the world and the high street honeys - thinks The Sun should drop Page 3. "One of my best friends is the editor of Nuts and we spend much of our time arguing. I think it's just reached a point where it's readily accessible porn, from Page 3 to Nuts. And we're past that." Brown spent 10 years at FHM and was its editor from 2004 until 2007. He is now group editor of Accelerated Intelligence.

About 28% of UK 9-10 year olds and 59% of 11-12 year olds operate a social networking profile, though social networking service (SNS) including Facebook have a minimum age of 13 years, according to a new study. The 'National Perspectives' report from the EU Kids Online project based at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) reveals that about 91% of UK children go online at school when compared to European average of 63%.

Research carried out by consultancy firm Accenture found that digital communications such as Facebook and Twitter could help police forces to better connect with their people and further equip themselves to fight crime. Almost half of the UK respondents said that social media could improve services, with 88% suggesting social technologies should be used more often. A total of 41% of respondents said digital media could help prevent crime.