Even those of us immersed in the world of digital content occasionally need to use a humble pen to jot thoughts and ideas down before they disappear into the mists of your mind. Now thanks to Apple, it’s going to be possible to inscribe your precious mental gems into digital and pen-and-paper media at one and the same time.

December turned out to be a pretty good month for Twitter, despite its earlier plunge in share price. The analyst firm Argus decided on 22^nd December that it was a good time to buy Twitter shares, even though their price had fallen to not far off the lowest point in the company’s dramatic 52-week share range ($29.21 to $74.73). Argus set the target price at a relatively healthy $44.

The term “amicus curiae” might not mean much to content creators; but it could be the means by which the US Government has its plans to force social media and other internet companies based in Europe to intercept and hand over private and commercial data to its security services thwarted.

An established era may be coming to a close amongst marketers: the age of YouTube exclusivity is waning as Facebook’s video player begins to snap at its heels.

Picture this: you’re at a friend’s birthday party, the celebrations are going riotously well and everyone’s buzzing with buoyant sociability. You and other party-goers decide to take snaps of the goings on with your smartphones to preserve the magic and share it with others.

Microsoft and Google are licking their wounds after the two Goliaths took a tumble in the US equities market.

Every now and then, laws paved with good intentions backfire spectacularly and end up somewhere else entirely, as Spain is just about to discover. A new copyright law, which is scheduled to be ratified in January, has prompted Google to pull Google News from Spain: never before has the search-and-advertising behemoth withdrawn the service from a country.

Were there any noteworthy trends in 2014 for those of us immersed in the world of creating digital content? As the year draws to a close and Santa gets ready for his busiest day, Digiday journalist Lucia Moses identifies five trends across the pond:

Well, there’s been a lot of discussion out there in Webmasterland after Google belatedly confirmed that it had indeed pushed out a Penguin update on Black Friday weekend, of all times. But how has this slow, ongoing rollout played out globally? SEO expert Philip Petrescu has pulled some interesting bits of data together.