Rovio Entertainment are to launch a year-long animated series of app phenomenon Angry Birds, a first in video distribution history.

Ceri Thomas will take over Stephen Mitchell’s role at BBC News, taking charge of major programmes including Panorama, Today and Newsnight.

At this year’s Mobile World Congress companies were keen to demonstrate developments for mobile gaming – an industry with a spend that has tripled in three years.

Global Radio proposes to sell Real XS Manchester and Scotland and East Midlands Gold after Commission expresses concerns about advertising competition across the UK.

With an increasing number of online television and film services offering subscribers exclusive content, LoveFilm has added another unique programme targeting parents and children.

The publishing division of News Corp will become its own company after Rupert Murdoch injected the business with $1.8 billion, taking it to an asset total of $18.6 billion.

Aggregating top global inventory, the company’s media buying platform for video advertising now features 12.5 million pre-roll ad impressions per day for smartphones and tablets in the UK

More space for music, games and advertising as the social networking giant strives to “focus on what people care about”.

TVCatchup is just one of the many free live-streaming sites in the UK that will be affected by the new European Court laws in aims to protect broadcasting rights.

The mobile advertising industry is expected to be worth £17 billion by 2017 as smartphones and other connected devices continue to impact the sector according to a new white paper from M&C Saatchi Mobile