Hundreds of European press publishers and their trade associations have called on EC vice president Joaquin Almunia to reject Google's draft remedies calling them "incapable of restoring competition in web search and search advertising". The calls come as publishers believe Google's actions create "potential harm to consumers in terms of reduced choice, quality and innovation".

Search engine company Google has said it has done a 'good job' by alleviating EU antitrust concerns that it unfairly posed hurdles to competitors in search results, by proposing concessions. Google, which had been under the scrutiny of the European Commission for almost three years, came up with concessions in April. These concessions were aimed at ending a case that could have led to a fine of up to $5 billion, according to Reuters.

Anyone who has been following online media for more than a few years probably remembers the heated debates that swept through the blogosphere over whether bloggers should be considered journalists - a furor that died down somewhat once traditional journalists started blogging, and some blog networks became media entities in their own right. There is an important issue at the heart of this question, however, which Glenn Greenwald of The Guardian has helped to highlight as he pursues the NSA story.

The new iOS app launched on Apple's App Store as a free download for iOS devices. It's a native-app wrapper for the ITN website, which itself relaunched in July 2012 as a responsive design HTML5 site that adapted itself to whatever device it was being accessed from: smartphone, tablet or computer.

French news outlet Les Echos is launching a new business news aggregation platform, using semantic analysis to sort and rank sources. The project - called LesEchos360 - was shared by head of digital at Les Echos Frederic Filloux, also editor of the Monday Note, at the Global Editors Network in Paris last week. The project, which was worked on with Syllabs, is in private beta, and publishers are being invited to be part of the public beta launch later this year by emailing the project.

The BBC has expressed concern after one of its journalists was targeted in a "threatening" Twitter campaign by a senior Turkish politician over her coverage of protests in the country. The BBC Turkey reporter Selin Girit was accused of "treachery" and acting as a foreign agent in a series of tweets by Ibrahim Melih Gkek, the longstanding mayor of Ankara, on Sunday.

A team from Dutch title De Volkskrant has won a Google-supported international hackathon competition. The trio were competing against 10 other teams from nine countries at the The Editors' Lab, held at the Global Editors Network summit in Paris last week. The 11 teams, each of them winners of a regional heat, were given the brief to 'imagine your homepage based on social media interactions'.

The UK mobile advertising market is forecast to almost double in 2013 to GBP1bn, as Google, Facebook and Twitter increasingly successfully mine the smartphone, tablet and app revolution. It is set to grow by 90% year on year, from GBP526m in 2012, according to digital ad spend figures published by eMarketer on Tuesday.

The UK Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has ordered Google to delete all the captured Wi-Fi data it captured via its Street View project or web firm will face court action by the watchdog. The IOC has served Google an enforcement notice demanding that the company removes the data it had offered to delete in 35 days time.

Steven Spielberg and George Lucas made a big commotion at a talk recently when the two predicted the imminent "implosion" of the film industry due to the changing nature of theatrical distribution. Mika Salmi believes a similar phenomenon awaits the broadcast TV industry, unless companies start making aggressive moves.