BT Sport is to launch its content onGoogle's TV dongle Chromecast, which launched in the UK last month. The ISP giant will join a raft of companies that have already signed up to open up content to the device, including BBC iPlayer, and Netflix. Users will also be able to access Google Play Movies, and Music, alongside YouTube.

For decades, American fans of British accents had it rough. Beginning in the 1970s, the primary access they had to television created in the United Kingdom was through PBS, which imported classic series like Fawlty Towers and Doctor Who to fill out the hours of programming not devoted to Sesame Street and pledge drives. Now, however, streaming services based in the US have embraced television from across the pond, and as a result, British television has never been bigger in the US.

German officials have banned a local journalist from naming his son "WikiLeaks" after the online platform the dad is a fan of. Iraqi-born journalist, Haja Hamalaw, 28, was told by local officials he could not do so. "After explaining that this would cause problems for the youngster, the father agreed to opt for Dako on the birth certificate, although friends and family are calling him by the original choice of WikiLeaks," said a town official.

The app has been crafted using PageSuite's new feed-driven digital publishing software, PageSuite Live. This innovative software enables the publisher to craft editions that are perfectly designed-for-device, says PageSuite. The design means that articles fit both phone and tablet screens so users don't have to zoom in to view content.

Jason Seiken, Telegraph Media Group editor-in-chief, has urged UK newspapers to move beyond their "imperial editor" culture, saying data and knowing the customer are as important in the transition to digital. Seiken, who joined the publisher in September from US public service broadcaster PBS with no previous UK newspaper experience, also said he would not be abandoning the Telegraph titles' "right-of-centre, conservative with a small 'c'" political orientation.

A branded mobile trike is set to be the star of The Economist's guerrilla marketing activity in Manchester this Friday and Saturday (4 and 5 April). Conceived by Gekko, the activity will be at Manchester Picadilly Station, Picadilly Gardens, St Anne's Square, Market Street and Victoria Station, and will see passers-by be offered a cup of tea or coffee to sup on while reading a copy of The Economist.

A study for Twitter and Thinkbox by Brain Juicer has found that while both TV and Twitter work to boost positive emotional responses towards brands, the results were much higher when Twitter and TV are combined. It was discovered that there are two different states of mind Twitter users are in when they're watching TV and tweeting: relaxed (lean back) and engaged (lean forward).

Twitter is trying to strengthen its association with real-time TV viewing after acquiring two European social TV firms, Parisian firm Mesagraph and the London-based SecondSync. Details of the terms were not confirmed, but both the companies, which provide analytics to broadcasters and advertisers about how people engage with television, will be working out of Twitter's London office.

Pavel Durov, the founder of the Russian social network VKontakte, or VK, has resigned as chief executive after a seven-year tenure, claiming he was no longer able to defend the network's founding principles. Durov's departure was not unexpected - at the end of January, he sold his remaining stake in VK after a surreal chain of events in 2013. Having already given the finger to Russia's authorities over censorship requests in 2011, Durov was accused of driving over a traffic cop's foot.

"Eighty percent of the internet will be video" said Trinity Mirror Head of Digital Development Steve Anglesey. Speaking at Advertising Week in London, Anglesey, along with Havas Media Head of Digital Strategy David Graham, AOL Head of International Graham Moysey and Little Dot Studio Co-Founder and Chief Executive Andy Taylor discussed the importance of understanding the different types of content and the platforms in which people consume it.