The BBC's former chief technology officer John Linwood, who was sacked in the wake of the GBP100m Digital Media Initiative fiasco, has won his unfair dismissal claim against the corporation. Linwood took legal action against the BBC after his contract was terminated in July last year following the failure of the DMI technology project which was scrapped by BBC director general, Tony Hall.

The Samsung and Apple war is over - outside America. The two giants have agreed to end all patent lawsuits between each other outside the U.S, including six countries in Europe. For three years the world's two largest smartphone makers have been battling it out across the globe. That's now over.

Irish broadcaster RTE plans to host an event to share ideas and skills around mobile journalism next year, according to an announcement by innovation lead Glen Mulcahy. MoJoConIrl, scheduled for March 2015, is intended to be an opportunity for mobile journalists who create content for a variety of platforms - including TV, radio, and print - to share their lessons and experience, Mulcahy told Journalism.co.uk.

New regulations giving journalists and the public new rights to report on local council meetings come into force yesterday. The move comes after Local Government Secretary Eric Pickles signed a Statutory Instrument - the Openness of Local Government Regulations 2014, which allows the press and public to film, digitally report, and tweet from all public meetings of local government bodies.

Dan Cobley is ending his eight-year stint at Google to launchBrightbridge Capital, a London-based financial technology incubator in partnership with venture capitalists Blenheim Chalcot and QED Investors. Cobley, who has served Google well as UK marketing director, European marketing chief and finally UK MD, plans to build a small number of companies offering financial service alternatives to banks.

"We are delighted that the ONA will be bringing some of the sharpest minds in digital journalism to Amsterdam for core sessions on the second day of the Newsroom Summit," said Cherilyn Ireton, Executive Director of the Paris-based World Editors Forum. The conference, to be held on 13 and 14 October during World Publishing Expo 2014, will showcase strategies, case studies and insights into shifting culture and adapting to the competitive pressures.

Just two weeks on from reporting a large increase in profits, Gannett has announced the splitting of its broadcast and publishing divisions into separate companies. It means that Gannett's British newspaper outfit, Newsquest, will find itself as part of the publishing arm and, quite possibly, out on a limb.

Wikimedia, the group responsible for overseeing encyclopaedia site Wikipedia, today announced it has rejected all 304 non-copyright content removal requests, with the US responsible for a third, in a first-of-its-kind transparency report. Non-profit Wikimedia's report, which spans the last two years, said most of the requests came from a mix of governments, organisations and individuals. These requests were for content removal or Wikipedia user data.

Do we need better media moguls? Newspaper writers and pundits have an obsession with media-company business models: how newspapers should charge for their articles online, how to lure advertisers, 12 reasons to worry about BuzzFeed's clicks. But what if the problem isn't business models, per se? What if the problem is management models?

The Russian telecommunications authority has threatened to block the BBC's regionial news site after the broadcaster ignored a request to remove an interview with artist and activist Artem Loskutov, according to a report by tabloid newspaper Izvestia. The Russian regulatory authority, known as the Roskomnadzor, said it may block the BBC due to its refusal to take down "provocative" interviews with Loskutov encouraging readers to participate in a march in supporting an independent Siberia.