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Facebook’s global revenues are expected to reach $4.27 billion in 2011, up from $2 billion in 2010, according to eMarketer.

Google is reportedly investing $500 million into YouTube in a bid to transform the online video site into an alternative broadcaster, according to Strategy Eye.

Sky Go has recorded its one-millionth download, just two months after it launched.

63% of the UK population accessed the internet in August, a month when the UK’s online activities hit the headlines for all the wrong reasons. Among the general civil unrest across the country, news stories highlighted the methods used by rioters to organise themselves and the wider role social media played played.

Dominic Finney, director at digital consultancy FaR, says standard ad units remain the bedrock of the majority of digital advertising campaigns – and there is now a strong argument to say that spend in these standard units is set to grow…

Facebook is set to launch a new media platform this week to enable users to share music, TV shows and films.

News Corporation has made its iPad newspaper The Daily available in the UK.

MyVideoRights has secured a funding injection of £2.75 million and is today rebranding as Base79.

Visits to IFA (the massive Consumer Electronics show in Berlin) and IBC, (the almost-as-huge broadcast conference) in the last two weeks shows the staggering amount of emphasis – and money – that is being staked on connected TV.

An IBC debate, ‘Changing the Advertising Paradigm’, convinced few at this week’s Amsterdam confex that the core TV advertising paradigm would change in the short to mid-term, but did illustrate the activity and opportunity growing up around television.