Julie Hansen, the outlet's president and chief operating officer, was speaking at the Digital Media Strategies conference, with a presentation on mobile growth and strategy. Asked about the investment, she explained that, as well as the UK launch, the money would be spend on "the core product, in hiring more editors, more video-makers" as well as "content-creators broadly" and the sales and content marketing teams.

Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy and his wife, Carla Bruni, are filing a complaint for privacy violations after personal conversations recorded by an ex-aide were released on a French news website. The recordings involved Bruni as well as several people in Sarkozy's inner circle and came out jointly in the weekly paper Canard Enchaine and the website Atlantico.

The sportswear brand said that it needed to make itself more relevant to online audiences, so is establishing newsrooms over the next 12 months to build on its current "moments of celebration and acknowledgement" real-time marketing strategy. The digital outposts will allow the brand to keep a finger firmly on the pulse of popular culture, trends and topics.

HeraldScotland, one of Scotland's leading national newspapers, has partnered with digital marketing agency Equator to create the 'Twitterendum", an online gauge to monitor the real-time sentiment of tweets related to the upcoming referendum on Scottish independence.

News outlets need to follow the rules of the "open web" and meet readers wherever they are with quality journalism, the Guardian's chief executive, Andrew Miller, stressed today, regardless of whether they are charged for the privilege. "If we could do a paywall of course we'd do it," Miller said, "we'd love to, but that horse has bolted".

Mike Darcey has said he is "optimistic" that the Times and Sunday Times are on course to become profitable - and has described the papers' previous strategy of free online content as a "small wobble" in its 230-year history. Speaking at the Digital Media Strategies Conference in London Wednesday, Darcey said the business "has turned around" since the papers abandoned free online content in 2010.

The BBC's BBC3 network, known as the birthplace of shows like Torchwood, Little Britain and Being Human, may not be accessible to U.K. residents with an antenna or a cable subscription for much longer. The broadcaster announced Wednesday that it may take the network off the air to save costs. Instead, BBC would become an internet channel that would only be accessible through the BBC's iPlayer.

The new Roku Streaming Stick slots into a TV's HMDI port making any television smart and providing a full video streaming experience with access to 750 apps or streaming channels including the BBC iPlayer, 4OD, YouTube, Netflix and access to a personal videos or music stored on a smartphone or tablet computer.

Responsible for all aspects of digital development for Cond Nast, Harris will bring considerable experience to his new role. Most recently Co-Founder and Managing Director of ChannelFlip, Harris sold the company, one of Europe's largest online multi-channel networks, to the Shine Group in 2012 and announced his departure from the company earlier this month.

Metro and Mail Online are both part of the Daily Mail and General Trust, and The Drum understands the merger was agreed because it "makes business sense" to open up Mail Online's resources to Metro.co.uk, which has seen year-on-year growth in excess of 300 per cent following investment.