The directors have been named for a body which will hold the purse strings and help decide appointments to new press regulator the Independent Press Standards Organisation. The Regulatory Funding Company replaces the Press Standards Board of Finance which collected fees for the Press Complaints Commission. The RFC will help choose the five industry representatives on the 12-person IPSO board and on the 12-strong complaints committee.

A recent study found that 64% of the top 100 brand sites in the UK have optimised their sites for mobile, up 6% from the previous year - showing that brands are responding to a consumer-driven demand for mobile-friendly content. The European Mobile Optimisation study released by the Internet Advertising Bureau suggested that brands were responding to market demand, with 100% of UK automotive sites now optimised for mobile.

The campaign has the tagline "Find your personalised Financial Times at FT.com". It includes digital poster sites at key London commuter stations and bespoke rich media and video ads optimised for mobile devices. It will run until the end of May alongside an existing digital media acquisition campaign across Facebook and Twitter.

Yahoo has signed an exclusive partnership with Twentieth Century Fox which will see the creation of a content hub on Yahoo Movies to show cast interviews and behind-the-scenes footage for X-Men: Days of Future Past. As part of the deal, Yahoo will live-stream the global premiere of the film in New York on 10 May and the London premiere on 12 May.

Former News of the World editor Andy Coulson has described his shock at the arrest of one of his reporters for phone-hacking, and denied suggestions that he was involved in a cover-up. During a fifth day in the witness box, the ex-No 10 spin doctor described what happened after News of the World royal editor Clive Goodman was held and police swooped on his newsroom on 8 August, 2006.

Vice journalist Simon Ostrovsky, an American, has been taken by militia in Eastern Ukraine, Mashable has learned. The reporter for Vice News, who has been filing a series of compelling video dispatches from Ukraine since early March, was "taken" in Sloviansk, Russian media outlet gazeta.ru reports.

The popular texting and VoIP calling service Viber is overhauling its app for iOS 7, bringing the operating system's characteristic clean, flat look to its user interface as well as several new features. Viber also created a version of its app for BlackBerry's newest operating system BlackBerry 10.

The AA has been named the most trusted brand among British consumers, according to a new survey released in April by agency Rainey Kelly Campbell Roalfe/Y&R (RKCR/Y&R). The AA , whose ads famously used to claim that their workers were 'Britain's fourth emergency service', came out on top ahead of the Post Office, Boots, Google and Johnson's Baby. Rival organisation RAC placed seventh.

Windows 8, the desktop and tablet operating system from Microsoft will provide another digital distribution outlet for Future's renowned publishing portfolio and allow users to purchase single issues and subscriptions to their favourite Future titles. The arrival of Future titles on Pocketmags.com is further recognition of the recent growth of the site which now offers more than 1800 titles and regularly outperforms non-Apple platforms in sales for many of its publishers, with the added benefit of no 30% platform charge as per app platforms, says MagazineCloner.

Messaging app WhatsApp now has 500m active users, having added 70m since announcing in February that it was being bought by Facebook for $19bn. "In the last few months, we've grown fastest in countries like Brazil, India, Mexico, and Russia, and our users are also sharing more than 700 million photos and 100 million videos every single day," wrote WhatsApp chief executive Jan Koum in a blog post.