Online search engine Yandex has revamped the design of its search results page as it launches an interactive snippets solution called 'Islands'. The new 'Islands' feature aims to increase engagement with websites and services by allowing users to action their query - whether booking tickets, making reservations or paying bills - directly from the search page rather than through an organisation's website.

Former Sunday Express editor Sue Douglas is to lead the transformation of the Sunday People into a seven-day digital product. Douglas will oversee a revamp of the People when she takes on her new role as publishing director of Trinity Mirror's newly created Digital Brands subsidiary on Monday. Trinity Mirror chief executive Simon Fox told Press Gazette that additional editorial staff are likely to be brought in over the coming months as part of the change.

Richard Desmond's tabloid managed to slightly lift sales to 534,813 - up 0.99% compared with April. The Lebedevs' 20p daily, i, also saw its circulation go in the right direction - up 0.75% month on month, to 306,578 copies in an otherwise bleak May for the daily nationals. In May the Sun remained the UK's biggest-selling paper with an average daily sale of 2,269,238, down 0.55% on April.

Future Publishing and Incisive Media, publisher of Investment Week and FX Week, were named as the Digital Publishers of the Year at this years Association of Online Publishers (AOP) Digital Publishing Awards. The award for Digital Publisher 2013 - Consumer was awarded to Future, while the Business to Business award went to Incisive Media.

BBC managers were warned three years ago that its ambitious and expensive Digital Media Initiative project was doomed to fail, long before it was axed last month after wasting GBP100m worth of licence fee money. The Guardian reports that a whistleblower had raised the alarm to executives in 2010, cautioning that the so-called benefits of the project were "hugely overoptimistic and difficult to deliver".

Continuing its effort to rapidly scale its ad operations and expand its data for advertisers, Twitter inked a deal with WPP, one of the "big four" global advertising holding companies. According to a release from WPP, the deal will focus on tapping and interpreting Twitter's data. The agreement spans several WPP units including GroupM, Kantar and digital agencies like Wunderman.

4G in the UK had the fastest customer take up in Europe and the new deals means EE claims it is on track to meet its target of signing up one million customers for its 4G service by the end of the year. Under the shared 4G plans mobile users will now be able to share 4GEE plans across computers or with other people as part of a larger family or business package.

Sacked deputy social media editor of Reuters Matthew Keys has prompted industry interest after setting up a breaking news site which collates data from various social media and news feeds to provide fast access to breaking content. Keys was sacked from Reuters after allegedly collaborating with hacktivist group Anonymous in April.

Edelman PR has released the findings from its seventh annual 'Global Entertainment Study'. Over two-fifths of respondents in the UK said they have enhanced their entertainment experience by simultaneously using another device. Similarly, the majority of respondents (54%) agreed that watching and sharing entertainment online has increased their sense of global connection.

There's been a lot written over the past few months about how unreliable social media can be when it comes to chaotic real-time news events like the Boston bombings, and how it perpetuates untruths and misinformation. But the flip-side of this equation becomes clear when you see what has been happening in Turkey this week, where the traditional media has either been asleep at the wheel or has deliberately avoided paying attention to large and ongoing demonstrations against the Turkish government.