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Virgin Media has launched a Virgin Media TV Guide smartphone app, to allow remote recording on its new TiVo set top box.

O2 plans to take the voucher market mainstream with the launch of Priority Moments, a new location-based offers service for O2 customers.

The Independent’s i has total readership of 368,000, according to the first early estimates released by the National Readership Survey (NRS).

Marketing budgets were revised down in Q2 for a third consecutive quarter, as companies attempted to reduce operating costs and protect profit margins amid concerns around the economic outlook, according to the latest IPA/BDO Bellwether survey.

A trading statement this morning from Associated Newspapers reports that trading during April and the first three weeks of May had seen advertising revenues 5% down on last year.

Raymond Snoddy: “Rupert Murdoch could say “to hell with it” – though those would not be the actual words used. He could close down Sky News and save the company an immediate £20 million a year. Worse still the entire future of News International could be called into question…”

News Corporation is withdrawing its planned bid to take full ownership of BSkyB following the News of the World phone-hacking scandal.

Google+ is expected to reach 10 million users soon, which isn’t bad considering it was released less than a month ago and is still invite-only. It is Google’s latest attempt to master the social media world, and it seems to be working.

Global ad expenditure will return to pre-recession peak level this year, according to ZenithOptimedia’s latest forecast.

Analysis of the NRS shows that there are 1.1 million average issue readers of the NotW (about15%) who do not read any other national newspaper – so there is a likelihood that many of these could be lost to the national press altogether.