Dropbox has acquired the iOS and Android ebook reading app Readmill, and the app will be shut down. Readmill was a Berlin-based startup that had become popular for the clean, streamlined ebook reading service it provided; its support for Adobe DRM meant readers could buy ebooks from platforms like Kobo and Nook and then read them on Readmill's apps.

Future is accelerating a realignment of resources in the US away from print. With these changes, all US print support functions such as consumer marketing and production will move to teams in the UK hub. Editorial leadership for Future's international print brands in the US will now be centralised in the UK, with some limited localised contribution from the US.

More than four-fifths of the world's top media organisations have been the target of likely state sponsored hacking attacks, according to research from two Google security engineers. Presented at the Black Hat Asia 2014 conference in Singapore, Shane Huntley and Morgan Marquis-Boire's research shows that journalists are "massively over-represented" among the targets of state-sponsored hackers.

For two days last week, 600 senior magazine people from 40 countries sat in a Deutsche Telekom building that was once the centre of Germany's telegraph network. Ignoring the ghosts of a dead communications technology, they tried really, really hard to imagine magazine publishing 3.0.

Mail Online has reported a 51 per cent rise in advertising revenues in the five months to the end of February - more than offsetting a GBP2m decline in print advertising over the same period. In a trading update Thursday, Daily Mail and General Trust said digital advertising grew from GBP15m to GBP23m over the five-month period. Print advertising was down from GBP86m to GBP84m.

Readly was previously released in the US and Sweden, and all titles from these territories are available to UK readers, taking the grand total of magazines on offer to 418, of which 261 are written in English. British publishing partners include Haymarket, IPC, DC Thomson, and Time Out, bringing titles such as NME, Amateur Photographer, What Hi-Fi, the Beano, and Uncut to the service.

Nokia's doing good business in Russia with its Windows Phones, but now it also hasX-series Android phones to sell there. The first of these devices went on sale on Thursday, with Yandex supplying the app store and search functionality.

PageFair, an Irish startup which helps websites deal with adblocking, has secured $400,000 in new financing. Founded in August 2012, the company allows websites to access detailed analytics about precisely how many of their visitors are blocking adverts - and attempt to convince them to turn off ad blocking software.

Microsoft is turning up the heat on rivals AOL and Google with the UK launch of a programmatic video ad network - Microsoft Video Network. The move means UK advertisers can now buy pre-roll video ads programmatically across MSN and the 350 publisher sites within its network for the first time.

TeamRock has announced the creation of a senior editorial team, designed to take its magazine portfolio to the next level and develop its digital assets. The new Senior Editorial team will report directly into Chris Ingham who will continue in his role as Managing Director of TeamRock, overseeing this part of the business as well as an increased international focus.