At yesterday’s YouView launch, chairman Lord Sugar referred to the new connected TV service as “simple and easy”, and he couldn’t be more right.

YouView is finally due to be launched by Lord Sugar next week with promises that it will “change the face of TV”, but is it too little too late or is there still room in the market for the BBC-backed VoD service?

ITV is set to make 1,000 hours of archive content available to rent this summer when it launches its online micropayments system.

Investec predicts a tough summer for ITV with negative ad revenue forecasts for July and August.

The TV App Agency has released an app for Absolute Radio that allows users to control their TV with their voice as well as their smartphone.

News Corporation has issued a statement confirming that is is “considering a restructuring to separate its business into two distinct publicly traded companies”.

Twitter plans to launch its advertising products in 50 countries by the end of the year, in a bid to turn its 140 million users into revenue.

WPP boss Sir Martin Sorrell is unconvinced that Facebook is a good advertising medium for clients.

Sky has fallen behind consumer demand, according to BSkyB’s chief operating office Mike Darcey.

Conservative MP Louise Mensch has launched a micro-blogging site similar to Twitter.