Traditional publishers are beginning to feel that the refreshing cool breeze of innovation they sensed on the back of their necks is turning into an icy chill of pure fear. And it’s coming from Facebook.

Amazon has added another string to its connected TV line in the form of the new Fire TV Stick, just six months after launching its Fire TV set-top box (well, OK, a few weeks if you live in the UK).

New guidance from the Organisation for Economic Co-operations and Development has called on governments across the world to implement adequate data privacy, legal and other protections for consumers of digital content.

The wait is finally about to end: Android’s newest operating system, the colourfully named Lollipop (or Android 5.0 for the more prosaic) will debut in the first week of November, timed to tie in with the release of the Nexus 6 smartphone and the Nexus 9 tablet. Other models will see the new OS rolled out progressively during 2015. So what can we expect?

Now, here’s a fact everyone knows: newspapers have suffered – badly - as ad spending migrates from print to digital in the internet age. However, what everyone might not yet know is that this may no longer be true.

It’s official. Penguin 3.0 is being rolled out over the next few weeks.

It might seem difficult to believe, but despite now chalking up over 100 million users, message and video sharing platform Snapchat has never made a penny in revenue. That’s about to change though: this week, it ran its first advert, with the undisclosed fee all paid for by Universal Pictures.

The Tinder interface is catching on all over the place. That satisfying finger swipe is no longer confined to images of people you don’t want to date; it can be used for shopping and all manner of other sorting tasks, and thanks to a new app called Newsly, people can now set their swiping fingers to work on sorting their preferred news content.

There’s no getting away from it: web publishers, digital agencies and even freelancing journalists wanting to add some vivid digital imagery to their article writing efforts face a stressful struggle. The content has either got to be freely available à la creative commons, or they have to sign a licence agreement with a professional digital media clearinghouse, which can take days to process. This is tough if you need the content right away because you’re covering highly topical or fast-moving events; however, a rather clever tech firm based in Finchley has come with what seems like a perfect solution: meet user content marketplace, Lobster.

How times change... Just a year or two ago, we were being told that the fight against terrorism justified mass data surveillance.