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Last night’s Superbowl produced plenty of thrills for the sports fans – and a Madonna performance at half time to keep the gossip sites chattering.

Facebook has filed its long-awaited plans for a float on the US stock market yesterday. The social networks initial public offering (IPO) of US$5 billion of shares is the largest for an internet company since Google in 2004.

Digital radio put in a strong performance once again last quarter. Listening to radio via a digital platform in terms of weekly reach has increased by 10% year on year, with 23.1 million people now tuning in to radio via a digitally enabled receiver (DAB, DTV, internet) each week (up from 20.9 million in Q4 2010 and 22.8 million in Q3 2011).

RAJAR’s Q4 2011 release was positive for Global Radio’s Capital brand, as well as Bauer’s Kiss and Magic.

BT and Miramax have announced a licensing agreement that will bring films from the studio to BT Vision customers in the UK.

Sky has announced plans to launch a new service allowing customers to watch some of its content over the internet. The new service will be an additional choice for people who do not currently subscribe to a pay TV service.

BBC iPlayer and ITV Player will now be available to Sky subscribers via the VoD service Sky Anytime+.

Apple posted record results this week – with shares up 8% in early trading on Wednesday to $454.45, making it the world’s most valuable company with a market capitalisation of $430 billion.

The UK’s national newspaper websites saw usage figures fall in December, with almost all audited sites recording a drop, with the exception of The Independent.The Independent was the only site to record an increase during the Christmas month, up 11.0% on November.However, all the other websites in our analysis posted percentage declines. guardian.co.uk suffered the… Continue reading ABC December 2011: Newspaper sites see usage drop in December

The number of connected devices will grow from 256.8 million units in 2011 to 1.34 billion units in 2016, driven by the rise of digital televisions, satellite STBs, video game consoles, Blu-ray disc players and recorders, according to In-Stat.