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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.

A new Knowledge Networks report has shown a growth of over 30% in over the top (OTT) viewing in the last twelve months.

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’.

UK publishers will focus on audience profiling and driving content across mobile platforms such as the iPad and smartphones in the next year, according to the AOP’s annual Content & Trends Census.

O2 Media’s personalised media platform, O2 More, has reached six million customers six months after passing the two million mark.