Could Apple be preparing to square up to Google in the world of search? OK, it seems pretty unlikely - a bit like David trying to get one in Goliath’s eye with a marzipan slingshot and a sprained wrist. That’s not meant to be insulting; it’s just a recognition of how massive the search giants really are out there. But Ghent-based web developer Jan Moesen has nonetheless noticed something interesting: Apple seems to be crawling websites with its very own automated bot.

A recent summit featuring representatives from Storyful (a social curation service owned by News Corporation), Time and Vice News has given an, at times, painfully honest appraisal of just how dramatically social media has changed professional journalistic coverage of conflicts around the world.

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.