Workplace messaging and collaboration app Slack has just raised a stunning $160 million after blazing its way to a jaw-dropping valuation of $2.8 billion – nearly three times its $1 billion valuation of just six months ago.

EU representatives attending upcoming transatlantic trade negotiations in New York must defend human rights, the fight against mass surveillance, data protection and individual privacy.

Movie and TV show production could be about to undergo a big disruption, thanks to a fiendishly clever innovation by digital media firm BuzzFeed.

Content marketers who like to keep an eye on how their brand or publication is faring on social media are about to develop a taste for Lobster. No, not the marine crustacean, but a nifty new tool to help them search coveted user-generated content across multiple social platforms.

A couple of weeks ago we reported on the trials and tribulations of Meerkat, the increasingly popular live streaming app that unwittingly built itself on top of Twitter’s social graph, distribution and communication systems, unaware that the social media giant had already acquired a rival live-streaming app, Periscope.

For anyone who wants a tablet gutsy enough to let you peruse digital content (from newsfeeds to video production) without eye strain, Microsoft’s revived Surface 3 might be your baby.

Fifteen years ago, the legal scholar Michael Froomkin wrote:

Reports that Google may be launching a new bid to purchase Twitter have seen the latter’s share value leap by 4.8 percent this week, adding more than £1bn ($1.5bn) to its value.

Google effectively euthanised its Authorship experiment last August. But content marketing expert Eric Enge has come up with eight rock-solid reasons why author authority still matters, even if Google isn’t formally measuring it.

If video production is your poison and you fancy yourself as a budding citizen-journalist, you might find livestreaming video app Meerkat hard to resist.