Samsung has revealed its first smartphone with a metal body, dubbed the ‘Galaxy Alpha’, as the world’s biggest mobile maker looks to expand into a more premium style to compete with HTC and Apple.

While new media is growing at a rapid pace, the wealth of the individuals behind them is also skyrocketing. Here’s a look at the net worth of new and old media billionaires, and how quickly they amassed their fortune compared to the media moguls of old, courtesy of staff.com.

Google has teamed up with five Asian telecom firms to build a $300mn underwater cable across the Pacific Ocean to cater for rising internet use in both the US and across Asia.

Twitter has revamped its ad pricing model to compete with Facebook, letting advertisers specify which action they wish to pay for, such as downloading an application.

BuzzFeed has raised $50m in a new funding round that values the web publisher at three times the amount of the Washington Post.

Google is reportedly testing a new way of measuring a mobile audience, letting advertisers target users across apps and the mobile web.

Brandtone partnered with Unilever in 2013 to drive the rate of sales across the Dove portfolio in Russia. This case study looks at how the beauty brand used linked on pack promotion swith a mobile campaign to riving cross-selling opportunities across Russia- boosting repurchase sales by 21% in some cases.

Microsoft has launched a £15 mobile phone, with no access to web services as the firm aims to kill off its low cost smartphone range to focus on its high end Windows Phone range.

To promote its new line of Persil’s Dual Action liquid capsules Unilver worked with AdLabs to create a fun alternative to the usual captcha verification screens.

While customers value targeted offers, they value their security more, argues Mark Kedgley, CTO, New Net Technologies.