Pandora conquered mobile, it's been expanding its automotive integration, and it expects to be profitable in 2014. So where should the company go next? One answer could be: Abroad. Pandora has been tight-lipped about its international plans, with executives saying in the past that it would focus on the U.S. market. But Pandora CEO Brian McAndrews gave some hints that this may change.

The deal with the ECB will give website subscribers access to video of all the wickets, boundaries and sixes in England international cricket, including the next Ashes series, from May. News UK digital subscribers already have access to video clips of football Premier League and FA Cup football as well as Aviva Premiership rugby.

Streaming music service Spotify has added more than 1m active users in the UK in the last four months, as it tries to overtake Apple's iTunes as the biggest digital music service in Europe. "Some of our partners are saying Spotify is now generating more revenue each month across Continental Europe than iTunes," Spotify's head of label relations in Europe, Kevin Brown, told industry site Music Week.

The Equaliser will deliver unique and bespoke football statistics and analysis directly to users' desktops and mobiles for free, with the strapline 'Making You The Brains Of The Beautiful Game'. Using Bauer Media's cross platform reach of over 22 million UK adults, The Equaliser will target an audience of over 1.4 million ABC1 males aged 25-45 who get their football information online.

Cond Nast is reviewing the partnership it has with RadiumOne as TechCrunch announced its decision to sever ties with the ad platform in wake of the CEO's domestic abuse charges. At the same time the deal was announced, RadiumOne CEO Gurbaksh Chahal was sentenced to three years' probation and community service as he pled guilty to misdemeanor domestic violence and battery charges.

The idea of living in a world where government agencies could almost instantaneously track down journalists' sources, no matter what the public interest considerations are, seems like a chilling prospect. But it's also largely the state of affairs that journalists now find themselves subject to in Australia.

Russia has been steadily trying to bring the Internet under control with ever-more stringent measures. After tackling general Web sites through powers that allow them to be blocked more easily, it now seems to be the turn of the bloggers, as this report at the jump from the ITAR-TASS News Agency on a recently approved law explains.

Mobile and tablet addiction has more than doubled since March of last year, according to a report by mobile analytics firm Flurry. Analysing data from half a million apps over more than a billion devices, the company found that the average user launches apps ten times per day as of March 2014.

Last year the Times and Sunday Times introduced a news development team, tasked with moving beyond day-to-day development to actively work on new products and formats for reporting. The launch of the team, now eight-strong, was "part of a more general digital restructure", Pat Long, who heads up the team, told Journalism.co.uk in an email interview recently, during which he discussed how the team has approached digital strategy, innovation and evolution of the culture across both newsrooms.

Beating analysts' expectations, the social media giant revealed on Wednesday that it had revenue of $2.5bn in the first quarter, aided by strong growth in its mobile advertising. The company reported that mobile advertising represented approximately 59% of the total advertising revenue for 2014, up from around 30% the same time last year.