Yahoo is the new owner of news-reading iPhone app Summly, the companies announced Monday. Founder Nick D'Aloisio and his team will join Yahoo, and the company will close the app. In its official announcement of the acquisition, Yahoo says that "Nick and the Summly team are joining Yahoo! in the coming weeks. While the Summly app will close, you will see the technology come to life throughout Yahoo!'s mobile experiences soon."

Twitter has failed to reveal the authors of anti-Semitic tweets after a French court mandated the company do so, reports the AFP. The January court ruling required that Twitter hand over user data to help identify hate speech authors who live under the jurisdiction of French laws. The suit was originally filed by France's Union of Jewish Students (UEJF), and the UEJF has now announced that it is taking further legal action against Twitter for claims that it has not complied with court orders.

It is becoming increasingly likely that large sections of the British press could stay out of the statute-backed press regulator agreed by MPs this week. The Economist has joined the growing list of titles opposing the Government's proposed statute-backed regulator. The New Statesman and Spectator and have said they do not plan to join a regulator underpinned by the proposed Royal Charter and Private Eye editor Ian Hislop has also indicated that he is likely to continue his boycott of press regulation.

Senior leaders need to be embracing social media in the workplace as their resistance could be holding back a culture of trust, openness, collaboration and innovation. That's the advice of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, reported by freshbusinessthinking.com, which suggests employers could find themselves 'on the back foot' if they don't embrace social media with open arms.

It is understood that Haymarket has chosen to move from a weekly publication to a monthly issue as part of its restructuring strategy, which included the appointment of Campaign editor Clare Beale and meant the departure of Noelle McElhatton. The Drum magazine announced that it was continuing to invest in its printed magazine with a new redesign. The development comes on the back of other pressures in the sector which also saw the closure of the likes of Design Week magazine and NMA.

The Conversation, a news and commentary website based in Australia, is due to be launched in Britain in May. Set up two years ago by former Observer editor Andrew Jaspan, the content of the website is a collaboration between academics and journalists. Drawing on the latest university research, journalists work with academic authors to produce news items and commentaries.

Google is considering launching a similar digital innovation fund in the UK, similar to that launched in France last year, which would help British newspapers and magazines boost their digital revenues. Eric Schmidt, the executive chairman of Google, was questioned by the Guardian's editor-in-chief Alan Rusbridger at the Big Tent Activate Summit in New Delhi, India. Talking about a possible expansion to the UK, Schmidt said: "I'm sure we can talk about it."

ComScore reveals that the media landscape is being redefined through the use of mobile, internet-enabled devices by Europeans. Digital engagement including web usage, online video, mobile and search are on the rise, according to comScore's 2013 Europe Digital Future in Focus report. It said advertisers, agencies and media owners need to understand the rising number of multi-platform consumers and the more complex digital ecosystem that has developed over the past years.

The publisher will aim to drive sales of products for advertisers and retailers through the addition of specially placed product shots and images within relevant features. The images will also be accompanied by QR Codes to drive consumers to visit the website of the brand, manufacturer or retailer of the featured product and purchase it directly.

The Independent was again the fastest growing UK national newspaper online in February as Mail Online remained the most popular title. The Guardian celebrated a record month for daily traffic according to ABC and said that its mobile site attracted some 17.2 million monthly unique browsers. Mail Online attracted some 7.6 million browsers a day online worldwide in February, compared with nearly 8 million in January. Mail Online's total monthly unique browsers total was 110 million, according to ABC.