News Corporation has reported second quarter revenue of $8.98 billion, a 2% increase on the $8.76 billion revenue it reported a year ago.

Bernardo Huberman and colleagues at HP’s Social Computing Lab have come up with four factors that make news stories popular on Twitter.

Virgin Media has announced its Q4 2011 results, with £48.2 million profit and double the number of customers subscribing to TiVo.

Social media is the flavour of the month for advertisers, according to Starcom MediaVest Group’s Jim Kite.

One of the biggest opportunities for advertisers at the moment is one to one communication with a consumer, according to Chris Worrell, European research director at Specific Media.

Torin Douglas rounded-up MediaTel’s Future of Media Research event on Friday by asking the panel what they think 2012 (and beyond) holds for the industry.

Bringing data sets together will become the holy grail, according to ITV’s head of commercial research & insight Sarah Messer.

What is the difference between research and data? That was the opening question put to panellists by Torin Douglas at MediaTel Group’s Future of Media Research event on Friday.

Live Six Nations Rugby dominated BBC One’s weekend ratings – with England v Scotland winning a high of more than 8.3 million viewers on Saturday afternoon.

I am not sure if RAJAR week always gives the impression of a lot happening but there certainly seems to be lots to talk about this week…