The Greek channel will be the 12th language channel of the France-based international news channel. The bureau is planned to open in December 2012 and will be operated by a team of 40 employees. It will be available on national DTT and in cable and satellite, as well as via euronews.com. At the same time, it was also announced that Euronews' second local newsroom in Budapest, Hungary, will be opened during the first quarter of 2013.

The Guardian has teamed up with Tumblr and four animated GIF-makers and together they will be 'live-GIFing' today's presidential debates. Animated GIF files are popular on the social network and blogging platform. The Guardian and Tumblr are opting to use the sharable animations to provide the "most animated coverage of the 2012 presidential debates". According to a post on the Tumblr staff blog, Guardian reporter Adam Gabbatt will be guest editor of Tumblr's election blog, plus will be liveblogging on the Guardian to "bring you the full stories behind the GIFs".

To paywall or not to paywall: it's a question that plagues the media. At its heart is a debate about whether your readers are your customers - or your product, to be sold to advertisers. At Die Tageszeitung, a newspaper based in Berlin, they look at it differently. Its readers are its owners. Quite literally, in fact. Taz - as the paper is nicknamed - is owned by a co-operative of 12,000 readers. Taz was founded in 1979 by west Germans disenfranchised by the conservative mainstream media and it is a leftwing paper.

The free daily newspaper, has announced the launch of a digital and print Puerto Rican edition as part of efforts to expand its reach in Latin America. Puerto Rico is the fourth largest advertising market in Latin America with 2 million people located in and around the island's capital of San Juan and the highest GDP per capita in the region. The title is already the largest newspaper in the region with nearly 3 million daily readers across Mexico, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, Peru, Guatemala and Columbia.

The Financial Times is making what it calls "a significant expansion into the Latin American market" by launching a digital newspaper print site inBrazil, a new Latin America page on its website and a mobile app for the region. The newspaper - printed in So Paulo - will be available for subscribers and retail vendors in So Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Brasilia from 3 October. The FT's chief executive, John Ridding, said the print site launch "underscores our belief in a healthy future for print".

The new TechRadar site will cover all the latest technology information and deliver localised content including interviews, news, features and opinion. The Australian site follow's the release of TechRadar US in April. The editorial team will be headed up by Nick Broughall and will be based out of the Future Australia headquarters in North Sydney. Broughall brings with him over three years editorial experience from his role as editor of Gizmodo Australia.

Bookouture is a new digital publishing imprint launched by ex-Harlequin UK Marketing Controller Oliver Rhodes. Specializing in entertaining women's fiction, Bookouture will publish ebooks and print-on-demand globally; paying a 45% of net receipts royalty on eBooks. The aim with Bookouture is to focus on creating global author brands and followings - through high quality editing and particularly through smart, creative digital marketing.

The British rival to Square, a start-up backed Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey which allows smartphone owners to take credit card payments, has announced a multimillion-pound deal to provide its technology via a bank. London-based Powa, which makes a smartphone app and small Chip and PIN reader that connects to the handset via Bluetooth, said its "white label" deal with South Africa's First National Bank, was its first and heralded rapid expansion into global markets.

The data visualisations platform, which enables news outlets to produce graphics both ready for print and in HTML5 for added interactivity, won EUR50,000. The remaining four finalists include "MyiFli, a mobile advertising and content service; PicTurk, a platform for photography awards; KnockOn.ie, an amateur and club rugby community; and Storyflow, a widget to find and show related links in a graphical way on a news story". All five projects are "now working in some way with The Irish Times Group to grow their businesses".

That's according to research by multi-screen video and brand advertising platform Smartclip, in association with the Research Now institute's online panel. The simultaneous use of internet and TV is now an everyday reality and nearly two-thirds of respondents use the internet frequently whilst watching television, as per the research findings. Internet-based use of multi-screen viewing is most important according to the respondents of the study, exceeding TV viewing in terms of the length of time used.