Automated mobile video editing app Magisto has secured a $2 million strategic investment from Russian internet giant Mail.ru. As part of the partnership, Magisto also integrated its app with Mail.ru's Odnoklassniki service, which is sort of like Russia's Facebook. This brings the total amount of funding raised by Magisto to date to $20.5 million.

Handheld advertising is more effective than the desktop and is four times more effective with those who can afford to flash the cash, suggests a world-first study from the BBC. Not surprisingly, the study also found that wealthier people were better connected to the internet through smartphones, with 39 per cent accessing the internet via mobile devices at least once an hour, compared to a humble 18 per cent of us mere mortals.

If confirmation was needed that we live in the age of the mobile phone, then the presence of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg at the Mobile World Congress gathering this week should underline the ascendancy of the handset. Zuckerberg will deliver the keynote address today, fresh from announcing a $19bn (GBP11.4bn) deal to buy WhatsApp, the hottest mobile texting app in town.

Aired during between episodes of Hollyoaks on Channel 4, the ad showed a smartphone scanning a woman's body to show nude images, with the crotch and breasts remained blurred. The advert's voice-over illustrated the app as a means to 'prank your friends to think you can see what any of them look like without clothes on'.

The line between youthful rebelliousness and something more dangerous is not always clear. But in her angry musings on Twitter, Alba Gonzlez Camacho, 21, who describes herself as a "very normal girl," sailed across it. After she posted messages calling for a far-left terrorist organization to return to arms and kill politicians, Spain's national court convicted her of inciting terrorism using a social media network.

The publisher of Marketing Week and owner of EConsultancy, posted the six month figures, ending 31 December, which also revealed a growth of 16 per cent in deferred revenue to GBP17.5m. Its paid for content revenue grew by 9 per cent to GBP10.6m while its adjusted EBITDA also increased by 7 per cent to GBP3.1m.

New data has revealed that the interaction of mobile and socially networked-consumer empowerment, coupled with perpetual price promotions, has led to the highest levels of emotional consumer expectations for products and services in two decades, effecting consumer loyalty and brand profitability as a result.

Mail Online attracted a record global average of 11.8m global website browsers a day in January, up 47.5 per cent year on year. This was more than double the next most popular UK newspaper website, The Guardian, which attracted just over 5m unique browsers a day according to ABC (which measures the number of different devices accessing sites). Metro was by far the fastest growing website, up 304 per cent year on year to just over 1m unique browsers a day.

Andrew Hill is a senior scientist at Vizzuality, the organisation behind open source mapping tool CartoDB, and is particularly effusive about the possibilities that the mapping of data holds for storytelling. "We're really excited to get the opportunity to experiment," he told Journalism.co.uk, "and give journalists the opportunity to experiment with maps in the way that stories are being told right now."

As demonstrations in Kiev descended into chaos, some of the most striking pictures came from citizen journalists. Part of that is dedication - live streamers like Ukrstream.tv and Spilno.tv have been covering the protests nonstop since November - but part of it also has to do with Ukraine's crackdown on traditional media.