The company had been seeking about EUR7bn in an all-cash deal for the business, but received bids lower than it had hoped for. Vivendi spokesman Simon Gillham was cited by the Wall Street Journal saying the company has decided not to sell for "silly prices". Vivendi's move comes as satellite-TV operator DirecTV, which had been one of the prime bidders, decided to walk away from bidding.

Downing Street remained hopeful of a cross-party deal on the Leveson press reforms over the last 24 hours that would avoid a damaging House of Commons defeat for David Cameron, George Osborne has said. In a sign that the Tory leadership may be moving away from its hardline stance, the chancellor said that the government was "not about grandstanding on this".

Pope Francis's election burst straight into social media with the first tweet on the @Pontifex account. Not that he sent it out himself. And an alleged personal twitter account @JMBergoglio was suspended by Twitter after being denounced by the website Slate as a fake. The real thing came after the previous pope Benedict's tweets had all been deleted. At 7:33pm - 13 March 2013 came the news from @Pontifex: HABEMUS PAPAM FRANCISCUM.

Four current and former journalists from Mirror Group Newspapershave been arrested by Operation Weeting detectives over suspected conspiracy to intercept voicemail messages. Scotland Yard has said that the alleged conspiracy mainly involved the Sunday Mirror and took place between 2003 and 2004, Press Gazette reports.

Campaign group Hacked Off has described Prime Minister David Cameron's decision to walk away from cross party talks to implement proposals made within the Leveson Report as "a shameless betrayal". Cameron has chosen to end talks following a lack of agreement over how the press should be regulated following Lord Justice Leveson's report which led to much debate as to how to proceed, but little agreement.

The Online Media Awards have opened for entry, allowing "media owners" to submit their organisations for consideration in 24 categories, seven of which are new additions. New additions for this year's awards, which are organised by The Drum, include best app, best freelance writer, best photographer, best lifestyle/leisure news site, best business/finance news site, best health/education news site and outstanding digital team of the year.

On demand film and TV service Viewster has announced that it has agreed partnerships with KinoNation, Renderyard and Moviehouse Entertainment. Viewster, which is available online, on connected TVs and through iOS and Android apps, holds the rights for over 5,000 titles.

mInternational news channel France 24 has reached a distribution agreement with Estonian operator Levira and is now available on digital terrestrial television (DTT) across the country. France 24 will be available in English 24/7 on channel 9 as part of Levira's newly-deployed DTT pilot network. The new agreement represents more than 140,000 households in Estonia.

Women on Twitter talk more about personal matters, television programmes and work, the study found, while men are most likely to tweet about sport, gaming and news When it comes to tweets related to brands, women are far more likely than men to be entering competitions, while men are much more likely than women to be complaining. Women tweet around 15 times a day, on average, compared with nine updates per day from men, according to the study of 1,000 British Twitter accounts by Brandwatch.

The Irish Times this week outlined its new approach to digital publishing, supported by a redesigned site unveiled at the weekend and the integrated newsroom behind the scenes. The recent developments within the Irish Times's digital operation see the news outlet move away from print-focused production online, which had included a "content data dump once a day, once every 24 hours, of the entire content of the newspaper", online editor Hugh Linehan told Journalism.co.uk.