Tesco is set to install hi-tech screens that scan customers' faces in petrol stations so that advertisements can be tailored to suit them, it has been reported. The retailer will introduce the OptimEyes screen, developed by Lord Sugar's Amscreen, to all 450 of its UK petrol stations, in a five-year deal, according to The Grocer. The screen, positioned at the till, scans the eyes of customers to determine age and gender, and then runs tailored advertisements.

Ten months after going independent, Andrew Sullivan's politics blog the Dish has hit $791,000 in subscriber revenue. The goal for the year is $900,000. October saw a surge in membership numbers because of the government shutdown. The site is up to 30,880 subscribers paying $19.99 per year or $1.99 per month for unlimited access. (Non-subscribers can read five longer articles every sixty days before hitting the meter; the Dish is also completely free through RSS.)

Former News of the World editor Andy Couslon was himself a victim of phone-hacking, the Old Bailey heard yesterday. Timothy Langdale QC for Coulson said it was "relatively unusual" for a defence barrister to make an opening speech. However, he said he would urge the jury to keep "an open mind". Langdale said Coulson's phone had been targeted by Glenn Mulcaire.

Three-fourths of Twitter Inc. users are overseas. But only one-fourth of its revenue comes from non-U.S. advertisers. To Twitter, that is a "substantial opportunity" as it readies to go public as soon as this week. But it will also be a big challenge to convert a global following into sales and profits. Analysts say the messaging service must mind cultural differences while promoting itself abroad.

The Forbes website, or "platform", as Lewis D'Vorkin, chief product officer for the media outlet, prefers to call it, publishes hundreds of articles a day, powered by not just its own journalists but a community of 1,300 contributors and a dozen brands producing "thought-leadership content". Speaking at an event last week, held at the Telegraph, D'Vorkin discussed in detail the site's content strategy, which is based on the editorial pillars of "context, relevance and analysis".

Former News of the World royal editor Clive Goodman kept a dossier of incriminating emails showing senior News International figures were aware of phone-hacking, a court heard. Andrew Edis QC prosecuting told the court that bosses at the newspaper "had every reason to be worried" by Goodman. He said: "Mr Goodman had kept a little file of emails which showed, we suggest, that what he was doing was officially sanctioned by people senior to him."

The standoff between the government and press on regulation could be moving towards a "breakthrough" following comments made by culture secretary Maria Miller on the BBC's Andrew Marr show. Miller told the BBC that the most important thing to happen next was for the press to "go forward with their own self-regulatory body and to establish that".

The social networking firm would gather information on how long a user's cursor lingers over a certain part of its website, or whether a user's newsfeed is clear at a given instant on the screen of his or her mobile phone. Facebook analytics chief Ken Rudin said collected data would be incorporated into a data analytics warehouse which can be accessed all through Facebook for any purpose ranging from product development to improved targeting of advertising, according to the Wall Street Journal.