Pure-play digital media channel for corporate office environments ECNlive is expanding its operations into Europe with the launch of its digital network in France. Launching across major office buildings in Paris, the ECNlive network will offer a mix of live French content and advertising including global and national French news, financial and sports updates to business executives in the receptions and lift lobbies of French business buildings.

An independent review into how the BBC wasted almost GBP100 million on a project designed to digitise its production process will assess whether governance arrangements were "fit for purpose". Auditing firm PwC has been hired to conduct the review into the Digital Media Initiative, which was scrapped last month forcing the BBC to write off the GBP98.4 million spent on the project since 2008.

Leo Burnett Worldwide has announced the fusion of its global social and mobile capabilities under the leadership of James Kirkham in a newly created role of global head of social and mobile. The practice area will be fueled by Holler, Leo Burnett UK's digital content and social agency, which was co-founded by Kirkham in 2001, and will initially have hubs in London, Chicago and Silicon Valley.

The European Commission is reportedly investigating Google over claims that the company used anti competitive methods to increase sales of its Android operating system. According to documents seen by the Financial Times, the EC has focused on allegedly anti-competitive agreements signed between Google and smartphone providers. The news agency said the informal investigation is at a preliminary stage and follows recent complaints by Microsoft and Nokia.

Twitter said it was disappointed with the court's ruling. A French appeals court has ordered Twitter to disclose the names of the persons, who are accused of posting anti-Semitic comments on the site. The Paris High Court rejected the microblogging site's appeal which was made in March this year and ordered to disclose the names to France's Union of Jewish Students and four others.

The UK Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has found that Google is avoiding paying corporation tax and the company's reputation will be restored only if it establishes a corporate structure to pay tax for the profit it generates. Google claims that its sales to UK clients take place in Ireland even though the vast majority of its activities takes place in the country.

Broadcaster Channel 4 has picked up a number of prizes at this year's Online Media Awards, including Website of the Year and Outstanding Digital Team of the Year, while presenter Jon Snow won an award for Best Twitter Feed. The awards, handed out at a ceremony held at the Emirates Stadium in London, also saw Channel 4 win the prize for Best Social Media and Best Site for News-Led Journalism and Technical Innovation categories.

Yahoo and Sky News have struck a content-sharing deal which will see the creation of an online hub on Yahoo for Sky's Sunrise programme and the launch of original content on the site covering politics, tech and business. Yahoo News UK will host the Sky News Sunrise programme, presented by Eamonn Holmes and Charlotte Hawkins, while three original content shows - current affairs programme Thinking Aloud; personal finance programme Loose Change; and series of short films on young UK inventors The Lab - will be available on demand globally.

Facebook has opened a new data centre in Lulea, a coastal town Sweden near the Arctic Circle, joining Google and other firms to set up data centres in chilly temperatures. Said to be one of the largest of its kind in Europe, the new 323,000ft2 data centre is the first to use only servers designed by Facebook itself.

Data journalism will form the centre of a newly launched daily business news e-publication from Trinity Mirror, The Liverpool Post Business Daily, targeted mainly at tablet and smartphone users. The 30-page daily offering launched on Thursday and was developed alongside the Birmingham Post Business Daily which launched a week ago. The tablet edition is on a subscription-based model beginning at GBP9.99 per month, alongside a separate, more flexible corporate subscription pricing model.