Apple turns iPhone into multi-tasking ads platform with OS 4 launch

Apple is taking on the might of Google in the digital advertising industry, hoping to see-off the search engine giant's attempts to build a powerful position in the burgeoning mobile advertising market

Google: The recession’s over, so let’s start recruiting

Google is taking on 500 new sales staff globally, with 100 new jobs in London. By Jemima Kiss

World Cup sponsors ‘failing to exploit Google search terms’

Coca-Cola, Sony and Adidas have not so far linked brands to key terms in online search, study finds. By Mark Sweney

David Cameron depicted as Gene Hunt in Labour poster

Party hopes advert based on Ashes to Ashes character will remind voters of Tory record in 1980s

Go Compare: the Movie – which other ads would make great films?

Stuart Heritage: With the E*Trade babies headed for the big screen, it's surely only a matter of time before the singing car insurance middle man gets a bigger vehicle. What other 30 seconds have you wished were an hour and a half longer?

Facebook lifts UK digital display revenue

IAB report reveals that UK online display advertising rose by about 11% year on year to £709m last year. By Mark Sweney

Orange links up with OpenX for pan-European online ad exchange

Local service to challenge US heavyweights Google's DoubleClick and Yahoo's Right Media in digital display market. By Mark Sweney

Freeview looks to take HD TV mass-market

Initial launch of free high-definition terrestrial TV service will reach about half the country, backed by £6m launch advertising. By Tara Conlan

The Times online? That will cost you £1

Murdoch's most prestigious UK titles are first to charge for access as industry suffers advertising crisis

Together at last: Piers Morgan and Aleksandr the meerkat

Media Monkey: Former Mirror editor comes up against heavyweight interviewer

Rupert Murdoch’s pathetic paywall

Jeff Jarvis: So Murdoch has decided to milk his dying cash cow dry, one pound at a time, and leave the future to the rest of us. Poor guy

The iPhone: it’s simples!

Media Monkey: TV meerkat Aleksandr Orlov launches his own app

Google wins Louis Vuitton trademark case

European court of justice rules internet giant can use brand names in search advertising. By Mark Sweney

Augmented reality: it’s like real life, but better

Charles Arthur investigates how the ways in which we watch sport, read magazines and do business with each other could change for ever

‘Advertisers should fear Twitter and Facebook more than regulators’

Havas chief says companies must work harder to prove that brands are socially responsible following the downturn. By Mark Sweney