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BBC One’s prime time film Raiders of the Lost Ark attracted a high of more than 4.9 million viewers last night.

O2 Media has appointed Gary Cole as its new commercial director in a bid to drive sales this year.

New research from Experian Hitwise shows that Boxing day was the busiest day for online retailers in the UK, with visits to websites around 12% higher than before Christmas.

Around 350 million internet-enabled television sets are expected to be sold worldwide by 2015, according to new research by Parks Associates.

Microsoft sites enjoyed a 24% increase in total unique visitors from 34.7 million in November 2009 to 43.2 million in November 2010, according to comScore.

BBC One banked an impressive peak run during prime time last night with its Tuesday night line-up of Eastenders, Holby City and Silent Witness.

Facebook has been valued at $50 billion following a recent $500 million cash injection from Goldman Sachs and Russian investor Digital Sky Technologies.

Consumer magazines haven’t quite conquered the iPad app market, with sales of Wired, GQ, Vanity Fair and Glamour all down or flat over the last six months. Over the same period, Apple has sold more than a million iPads.

As Facebook continues to dominate the social media world, Nick Burcher wonders if the site can continue to grow at this rate in 2011?

The latest version of Amazon’s Kindle is the best-selling product in the site’s history, even topping sales of the final book in the Harry Potter series.