Broadcasters, content creators and advertisers should look to platforms like Mumsnet rather than Facebook or Twitter to gain a "social view" of their content, according to YouView CEO Richard Halton. Speaking at Westminster Media Forum's TV Convergence Keynote seminar in London yesterday Halton said the time has come to move connected TV out of the early adopter environment into the mainstream.

Boris Johnson will promote London Tech City to overseas investors today, making him the first high-ranking UK politician to use the video chat platform. The session, which will take place at 5 pm at the InnoTech Summit in London, is aimed at driving awareness of the UK digital economy to help attract investment. He will speak with U.S. venture capitalists who will join the video chat from InnoTech Summits held at 9 am (Pacific Standard Time) in Silicon Beach, Los Angeles, and San Francisco.

The Independent was again the fastest growing national newspaper website in March, with average daily browsers up 90% year on year to 1.2 million. The Telegraph recorded its last monthly ABC figure as a fully free-to-air website with 2.9 million daily browsers (up 19% year on year). The Telegraph adopted a metered paywall at the end of March in the UK after doing the same thing with the international version of its website in November.

The majority of the newspaper industry has rejected the cross-party press regulation Royal Charter with just weeks to spare before it goes to the Queen for approval. The Newspaper Society has put in its own rival petition to the Privy Council for a Royal Charter to regulate the press. The Queen could now be placed in difficult position on 15 May when the Privy Council meets to approve the cross-party press regulation Royal Charter. Such charters are normally uncontroversial.

Social networking giant Facebook has created a UK Advisory Board, made up of representatives from brands and agencies, in a bid to improve marketing best practices. The UK Advisory Board will meet approximately four times a year to discuss product development, campaign measurement and insights, and marketing best practices. The board will be lead by Facebook UK & Pan-Euro director Christian Hernandez and UK sales director Stephen Haines.

As on iOS, the Android version is free to download and use, providing live streaming radio from the BBC's stations, a programme guide, and access to on-demand shows from the last seven days. Podcasts, video clips and an alarm-clock function are also included. The new app will shortly also be available from Amazon's Android Appstore, including support for that company's Kindle Fire HD tablet.

Traffic growth at Forbes.com continues to accelerate as the website yesterday announced 26.2 million unique monthly visitors in March, a worldwide annual increase of 50%, up from 42% in January. In regional terms, growth is even more rapid as Europe saw an annual increase of 63 %, to 3.5 million, with Asia recording a 90% year-on-year increase to 3 million visitors. Forbes attributes the growth to a continuing a trend that began with the reinvention of its digital publishing platform in June 2010.

Claimed to be the Twitter's biggest advertising deal, the multi-year agreement with Starcom MediaVest Group includes preferred inventory and a direct pipeline into the micro-blogging site's data feed for media planning purposes and is anticipated to be worth hundreds of millions of dollars. Financial Times cited SMG global chief executive Laura Desmond as saying Twitter, in a very short period of time, has gone from an experiment to something that is essential.

Neville Thurlbeck has launched an ambitious new online venture called TalentGB. He told Press Gazette that the idea for the new website came to him in a dream a year after his September 2011 sacking from the News of the World. Describing itself as the "the UK entertainment industry's only one stop talent shop for artistes of every genre to display their showreels and take bookings" TalentGB aims to make money by charging all those listed a GBP19.99 annual subscription.

Google has been fined about EUR145,000 by German data regulators for illegally collecting personal data through unsecured Wi-fi networks, during its development of Street View service. In addition, regulators have called on European lawmakers to considerably raise fines for breaching data protection policies.