Collaborative listening platform Soundrop, which initially started out as a Spotify app, launched on the competing music subscription service Deezer Monday. Soundrop offers Deezer users access to tens of thousands of so-called social listening rooms, which offer up music streams curated by its community. Many of these rooms are genre-based: Soundrop has rooms for Progressive Metal, Minimal House, K-Pop, Reggaeton and pretty much any other genre you can think of.

Brands must tap into the predictability and repeatability of the social media surges which happen around certain TV programmes if they are to engage with the ever-increasing TV audience using Twitter, according to Twitter's UK head of planning Oliver Snoddy. Speaking at the Admonsters Screens in London Snoddy revealed that the way people interact with TV programmes on Twitter varies by genre.

Automattic, the company which runs the popular WordPress.org blogging platform, has announced that it is suing the anti-gay campaign group Straight Pride UK for allegedly abusing copyright laws. In August, Straight Pride UK used a provision of US copyright law to make Automattic remove an interview the group had given with Oliver Hotham, a London-based student journalist. In doing so, Straight Pride UK claimed that the interview, which was given to Hotham in a document titled "press release", was a private release.

Tory MP Nadine Dorries threated to nail a Sunday Mirror journalist's testicles to the floor after he doorstepped her to ask about her daughter's taxpayer funded job. Ben Glaze approached the MP asking how her daughter Jennifer could provide "secretarial support" at a cost of GBP35,000 a year when she lives 96 miles away from Westminster and 89 miles from her mother's constituency office in Bedfordshire.

Amazon Coins are now available in the UK and reportedly Germany too. The company's virtual currency is intended for use in its Kindle Fire tablet ecosystem, and owners of the tablet will receive GBP4 ($6.50) worth of them - that's 400 Coins - to buy apps, games and in-app items.

Disney's movie business has appointed OMD to handle its $800m media responsibilities with a pitch. According to Adweek, the move means that staffers from the incumbent agency, Publicis Groupe's 4D, will follow the business to OMD. This follows Disney splitting its $1bn media spent between Publicis and Carat in March 2011.

Johnston Press has announced the appointment of Kris Yule as general manager of the Scotsman.com, a newly created position intended to strengthen its digital output. Yule will begin work for the publisher by the end of the month and will report directly to Stuart Birkett, MD for Johnston Press Scotland. Hailing from Australia Yule cut his teeth as a sales executive for The Scotsman back in 1998 before his departure in 2006 to launch a new sports drink brand. Latterly, he as served as digital sales director for STV.

Mail Online has set a target of making more than GBP60m in revenues in 2014, with executives saying it is close to more than offsetting revenue declines at the Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday. The Daily Mail website, which on Thursday reported GBP41m in revenue for the year to 30 September in Daily Mail & General Trust's annual results, will need to maintain growth of 50% to hit the target in 2014.

Politicians from Germany's two biggest parties are currently negotiating what their grand coalition will look like, and they've reportedly decided on at least one thing:they need encrypted phones. According to local newspaper Bild, this means no iPhones, because Apple's platform doesn't support encryption software developed by Germany's federal office for information security, and all official business will henceforth require encrypted communications.

he UK prime minister, has committed another social media blunder after following a high-class escort agency on Twitter. No explanation has been offered by Downing Street as to why the PM's official account, which is run by a team, is following the Carltons of London. The Register, which first reported the incident, quoted a woman at the agency as saying: " "I think there is a wrong number out there...I don't know anything about the Prime Minister or Twitter."