AOL is to place all of its reserved online inventory into its own demand side platform -- automating the entire ad trading process. "Making all of our inventory and premium formats available through our DSP is a major milestone for AOL UK and the industry as a whole," said Noel Penzer, managing director, AOL UK.

Photographs posted on social media channels are providing a catalog of parking disasters on the country’s roads, as bemused Twitter and Instagram users shame those who struggle behind the steering wheel.

The UK government and creative organizations has launched Creative Contents UK which will point those engaging in online piracy to alternative legal sources. It includes a two-step policy change that will come into effect next spring, the first of which will be a nationwide awareness campaign led by the industry with some financial help from the government.

Responding to online offences such as threats on social media make up “at least half” of a calls to some front line police. Chief Constable Alex Marshall, head of the College of Policing, told the BBC: “As people have moved their shopping online and their communications online, they’ve also moved their insults, their abuse and their threats online.”

A Dutch secondhand ebookstore has successfully defended a court case brought about by the country's publishers' association, which argues that ebooks cannot be legally resold. n a significant upset for the European publishing industry, the Amsterdam district court has refused to order the closure of secondhand ebook store Tom Kabinet, saying EU law isn't clear enough on digital media resale rights to take that step.

European governments are calling on Internet and social media companies to close the accounts of Islamist militants, as part of a wider effort to contain the threat of European extremists returning from Syria, Dutch officials said Monday.

The U.S.-based streaming giant Netflix says it's pushing ahead with expanding into the European market after its earnings report smashed expectations on Wall Street. since launching their TV and movie subscription service 15 years ago and with the death of Blockbuster, Netflix has become a juggernaut in the online streaming media industry.

What do the late Pink Floyd vocalist Syd Barrett, the Canadian actor Erica Durance and Brazilian model Felipe Berto have in common? They all suddenly appear to be big supporters of China's policies in Tibet. Not that they had any say in the matter. Chinese propagandists have opened scores of fake accounts on Twitter to promote Beijing's line on the ethnically divided Himalayan region, many of which were suspended by Twitter on Tuesday.

Students in the UK taking A-level sociology are set to study topics such as social media, the culture of selfies, online safety and privacy. The topics are part of a new course drawn up by OCR, one of England's biggest exam boards, which said that the subject should not be seen as a soft option.