ITV’s Doc Martin series returned to the prime time slot last night with top ratings of more than 8.1 million viewers.

Amazon is set to launch a new e-book service that will enable customers to access a library of books for a fixed monthly fee.

BBC4 no longer faces the axe after more people than usually watch its programmes signed a petition to save the high-brow digital channel.

Twitter, the micro-blogging site which boasted 100 million active users last week, will be used by a British hedge fund to predict whether share prices will rise or fall.

AOL and Yahoo! are thought to be in talks about a possible merger between the two internet companies, following the departure of Yahoo!’s chief executive Carol Bartz last week.

Jeremy Hunt is set to ask Ofcom to establish an agreed means of measuring cross-media ownership in the UK following the row over Rupert Murdoch’s previous bid for BSkyB.

Saturday night’s X Factor peaked with an audience of 10.3 million viewers, securing the top ratings during the all important prime time slot.

JP Morgan has upped its forecasts for tablet sales in 2011 to 51.9 million units, from 46.1 million previously, according to Mobile Insider.

The daily national newspaper market saw circulation figures drop off in August after a positive July. Overall the market is down -0.2% PoP and -5.6% YoY. Five titles in the daily market managed to post small PoP rises.

100 million Twitter users now log in to their account on a daily basis, meaning that half of the social network’s registered users are ‘active’.