Chat apps such as WhatsApp, Snapchat and iMessage could be blocked in the UK after Prime Minister David Cameron promised to ramp up internet surveillance powers to prevent terrorists from plotting attacks online.

Facebook is testing a new app aimed at businesses, letting employees use news feed, groups and messaging for their work, while keeping activities separate from their personal profiles.

Google has revamps its translation app, letting users carry a conversation in two different languages, converting speech as each user talks into the phone.

Samsung first non-Android smartphones have gone on sale in India, using the electronics giant’s own operating system ‘Tizen’.

In January, Millward Brown digital and media experts from around the globe will once again offer their predictions for the coming year, forecasting the most meaningful trends and providing recommendations to help brands make sense of the changing landscape for 2015 and beyond.

Ryanair is testing an in-flight movie streaming service that will send films direct to users tablets and smartphones during their journey, funding by advertising.

As the digital and real worlds merge, brands need to unify their customer experience across their websites and offline, argues Udesh Jadnanansing, Founder and Managing Partner at Mopinion.

Meetrics, a company that maximizes the viewability of online ads, has been granted accreditation by the U.S.-based Media Rating Council (MRC) for its Viewable Ad Impression measurement in its Ad Attention Monitor product, for both display and video ads.

A solid Christmas online finished off 2014, with new data from the IMRG Capgemini e-Retail Sales Index indicating that £104bn was spent online in 2014, the first time annual spending has exceeded the £100bn barrier.

Teradata has bought Israeli app marketing platform Appoxee as the markting software provider looks to boost of mobile assets.