Oops. Starbucks has apologised after the coffee shop chain invited its nearly 2,000 Irish followers on Twitter to "show us what makes you proud to be British". The gaffe, which occurred on @Starbucksie during a misdirected Diamond Jubilee promotion, was hit with a backlash on the microblogging site. According to The Guardian, Twitter user Fergus McNally tweeted: "The ie stands for Ireland, awaiting the apology before I visit your stores again!!"

German news publisher and multimedia conglomerate Axel Springer is buying a position in Poland's most popular web portal, Onet.pl. Springer's Europe JV with Swiss Ringier is teaming with TV broadcaster TVN, which already owns the portal, to jointly own 75% of Onet.pl's shares, for 956.25 million Polish zloty ($273 million, EUR217.5 million). Ringier Axel Springer CEO Florian Fels, in an announcement, calls it a "milestone" for the two-year-old JV.

The acquisition is a sign of how consolidation in the sector is hitting aggregators, too. Counting flash sales and private buying clubs with daily deals, there are an estimated 105 sites in the UK alone, with 1,400 across all of Europe, and there will likely be more companies bought or cast by the wayside going forward. The UK-based deals aggregator Coupobox was bought by rival site DealCollector for a song: the price was in the "lower six figures," according to Stavros Prodromou, the founder and former CEO of the company.

The app is available on any mobile or desktop device running the newMicrosoft Windows 8 release preview. Tablets running the Windows 8 operating system are expected to go on sale in the autumn. Speaking to Journalism.co.uk, Rob Grimshaw, managing director of FT.com said the launch of Windows 8 tablets could be a game changer in the tablet market. The FT Windows 8 app, which can be downloaded from the Windows Store, is the "next phase in the FT's mobile development".

The magazine publisher behind Top Gear, Radio Times and Good Food, is also making a round of redundancies following the merger of its BBC Magazines, Origin and Magicalia operations, affecting sales and editorial teams. Tom Bureau, chief executive of Immediate Media, said: "The common theme in these proposed changes is that we are absolutely focused on digital growth, whilst maintaining our core print business." The review is also likely to impact the number of editorial roles within Immediate's Parenting team, as the market rapidly migrates online.

Harry Potter author JK Rowling has written the first release for Wonderbook, named The Book of Spells. Set in the Harry Potter universe, The Book of Spells has players working through wizard training at Hogwarts School, learning magic spells which are then cast using the PlayStation Move controller as a wand. "This is the closest a Muggle can come to a real spellbook," said Rowling. "I've loved working with Sony's creative team to bring my spells, and some of the history behind them, to life. This is an extraordinary device that offers a reading experience like no other."

The Queen may be celebrating her jubilee, but the Queen's EnglishSociety, which has railed against the misuse and deterioration of the English language, is to fold. For 40 years the society has championed good English - and hasn't been above the occasional criticism of the Queen's own pronouncements - but it has finally conceded that it cannot survive in the era of textspeak and Twitter. Among its findings, and which probably will only worsen, were that 80% of university undergraduates could not spell and use the word "effect" correctly, and 43% were unable to spell the word "miniature."

New guidelines on using social networking in the UK Public Service are urging PS staff to weave public engagement through Twitter, Facebook and other social sites into their daily work. The guidelines were issued by the UK Government's digital service and focus on the idea that while social media can contribute much for policymaking, it should also be used cautiously. Minister for the Cabinet Office, Francis Maude agreed that social media could be useful but precautions should be taken.

With owner Bauer media, it has conducted a year-long study in what readers actually want from a weekly magazine, finding that the power of social media has had a considerable impact. The 'new' magazine understands this growing pressure felt by young women, who are branding themselves through their use of social media, and has embraced the challenge of tackling the issues they face. In place of the models who once graced the fashion pages, the teams at more! and Bauer decided to use "real" people from the street and online blogs for the re-launched publication.

The UK's PRS For Music, Britain's collection society, that digital royalty payments will soon match those from physical sales. Royalties from the digital sales of U.K. repertoire worldwide will match those from the sales of physical recorded media, including CDs, in the year 2014, predicted PRS for Music, Great Britain's collecting society, during its AGM (annual general meeting). Chief financial officer Craig Nunn pointed out that the current tough economy, which has seen youth unemployment reach a staggering 22%, had not hurt the organization's income stream.