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YouView shareholder funding up 30%

BBC, ITV, BT and others paid out more than £40m in last financial year as internet-based TV service launched. By Mark Sweney

Editor sounds the last Post, but his journalistic spirit lives on…

Why the Liverpool paper had to close

Twitter more than triples its UK revenues to £46m

Social network expected to make more than £180m by the end of 2015, according to eMarketer report. By Mark Sweney

Autumn statement: UK’s special effects industry cheered by tax relief plan

Chancellor's measures to help film business likely to encourage more Hollywood studios to use British post-production facilities. By Mark Sweney

Last Tango in Halifax producer sells majority stake to French company

Red, which also produced Russell T Davies's Queer as Folk, acquired by Studiocanal in deal valuing company at about £30m. By Mark Sweney

Spotify censured over swearword in Lily Allen email ad

Advertising Standards Authority rules that use of expletive was likely to cause serious offence to some recipients. By Mark Sweney

Google agrees Game of Thrones deal with HBO

Boardwalk Empire, True Blood and Veep also among series to be made available on Google Play for first time. By Mark Sweney

Entertainment and tech site Digital Spy casts off its disguise with a revamp

EnCo-founder James Welsh must evolve popular website in the face of competition from Buzzfeed and Mashable. By Mark Sweney

UK ad spend set to hit record £14bn

WPP buying arm forecasts revenues to top pre-crash level in 2013, with digital accounting for 44% of the market. By Jason Deans

Top albums miss out on million-sales mark as music streaming grows

Biggest-selling artist album has 600,000 sales, the first time since 1980s none has hit 1m, but overall sales down only slightly

Mail Online targets £60m revenues in 2014

Publisher aims to continue 2013's 50% growth to hit point at which website's income would exceed newspapers' decline. By Mark Sweney

ITV agrees James Bond TV rights deal

Skyfall to air next year after broadcaster renews longstanding relationship with MGM Worldwide Television. By Mark Sweney

Snapchat rejects $3bn Facebook buyout

The messaging system, which registers 5 million daily users, would have been Facebook’s most expensive ever acquisition

Financial Times reaches highest circulation in its 125-year history

FT's print sales are profitable for the first time

Another brick out of the editorial wall as journalists sell subscriptions

Magazine staff compete to sign up subscribers

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  • UK government announces £132.5m after-school clubs package
  • Pioneering UK Nerve Lab harnesses AI to map effect of children’s screen time
  • ‘Loneliness influencers’ are racking up views. After a breakup, I see the appeal
  • ‘Why would you put a toxic product into the hands of a young child?’: director turned activist Beeban Kidron on why big tech needs its ‘tobacco moment’
  • ‘A movie for everyone, not just Drag Race fans’: stars of drag comedy Stop! That! Train! on making the summer’s funniest film
  • The Guide #246: Does World Cup fever leave you in a cold sweat? Here’s how to escape the footie
  • UK parents support an under-16 social media ban – but what do their children think?
  • From Olivia Rodrigo to The Fall of Sir Douglas Weatherford: your complete entertainment guide to the week ahead
  • ‘Have you ever been around someone you just know is evil?’ Melinda French Gates on meeting Jeffrey Epstein, giving away billions, and her post-divorce peace
  • The right has created a false reality – fuelled by toxic images delivered straight to your phone
  • Palantir loses legal challenge to force Swiss magazine to publish responses
  • How much money did Elon Musk make in SpaceX’s stock market debut?
  • Elon Musk becomes world’s first trillionaire as SpaceX ends trading day with valuation of $2.1tn – as it happened
  • SpaceX makes largest ever stock market debut, making Elon Musk world’s first trillionaire
  • Derbyshire police officer investigated over AI-generated ‘evidential material’
  • The SpaceX IPO made Musk a trillionaire. The old rules of capitalism no longer apply
  • UK to ban under-16s from ‘high risk’ social media apps
  • David Hockney, pioneering British artist famed for his pools and portraits, dies aged 88
  • What World Cup? US celebrities get their fashion kicks from the Knicks
  • More of the Christchurch shooter’s online comments have been uncovered, New Zealand researchers say. Does it change the picture?
  • Online racism is significantly affecting mental health, First Nations people say: ‘It’s like carrying a bully in your pocket’
  • ‘I only had this father, and he’s gone’: Wafa Mustafa’s fight for truth and justice for Syria’s missing
  • Obsessed with Obsession: how a low-budget horror changed the game in Hollywood
  • France accuses Israeli firm of interfering in Scottish elections and targeting SNP
  • Brad Pitt in the frame as older men embrace ‘hot professor’ glasses
  • Masters of the Universe is a box office flop. Can they really be serious about a sequel?
  • Scientists are working on headphones that block annoying noises and allow the ones you love? I can’t wait!
  • David Gamble obituary
  • After SpaceX’s huge IPO, Americans’ financial future will be bound to AI
  • They Will Kill You to Aftersun: the seven best films to watch on TV this week

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