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Global digital music sales slowing despite piracy crackdown

Industry looks to subscription services such as Spotify to help reverse drop in total worldwide music sales of up to 9% in 2010. By Mark Sweney

Jeremy Hunt considers online TV crackdown

Culture secretary says he plans to put online content rules under scrutiny, focusing on IPTV services rather than YouTube. By Mark Sweney and Dan Sabbagh

Jeremy Hunt to ‘radically rethink’ media regulation

Culture secretary promises to publish green paper setting out scope of new communications act by end of the year. By Mark Sweney

Arqiva seeks partner for online TV venture

SeeSaw online television venture could be sold as part of strategic review. By Mark Sweney

Groupon, Square and Bump: is this the latest gold rush?

Jemima Kiss: The current hot tech firms and apps show that investors are ready to think big

Major labels to face price-fixing lawsuit

US supreme court gives go-ahead to civil case accusing major record labels of inflating cost of downloads

John Cresswell to head Arqiva

Former ITV senior manager to replace Tom Bennie as chief executive of TV and radio transmitter firm. By Mark Sweney

MySpace ‘set to cut up to 50% of staff’

Struggling social network seeks to cut costs as parent News Corp explores selloff, according to reports. By Jemima Kiss

Net neutrality: US expected to ratify new rules on internet access

Framework may allow mobile internet service providers to charge content firms for delivery to US homes

US online advertising overtakes print

Digital ad spend in 2010 exceeds that for newspapers for the first time

Jonathan Ross takes stake in French film channel

Former Film 2010 frontman to become a presenter, producer, creative director and shareholder at Cinémoi. By John Plunkett

MediaGuardian Review 2010: entertainment

Music, film and DVD industries took a battering but November games sales offer some cheer. By Dan Sabbagh

Virgin claims to cross final frontier with TV that taps the internet

Richard Branson unveils set-top box that puts him a terabyte ahead in online television race

EU to launch Google search investigation

Anti-trust inquiry follows allegations that tech giant abused its dominant position in the search and advertising market. By Mark Sweney

Newsweek and Daily Beast agree to merger

Former New Yorker editor Tina Brown named editor-in-chief of new group, to be called the Newsweek Daily Beast Company. By Mark Sweney

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  • The Guardian view on regulating big tech: the UK’s new, tougher approach to child safety is overdue
  • Technology secretary says she wants regulator to design plans for online age verification by October – as it happened
  • ‘The genie is out of the bottle’: parents react to UK under-16s social media ban
  • Forget makeup and tweakments: this is how we should be ageing gracefully
  • UK 16 and 17-year-olds: we would like to hear your views on the government’s social media ban for under-16s
  • ‘We’re coming for his ass’: Jane Fonda, Robert De Niro and Bette Midler target Trump at New York benefit concert
  • ‘What’s the opposite of a gay demon?’: The creepy new Australian horror film that’s getting global buzz
  • One Nation branch official defended Hitler Youth and called Aboriginal people ‘stone age’ in racist posts
  • Spielberg’s Disclosure Day opens strongly at box office as Obsession, Backrooms – and Michael – smash records
  • Ian McKellen says he imagined destroying Mar-a-Lago for new Avengers movie
  • UK under-16s social media ban: which apps will be blocked and how will it work?
  • The Toymaker’s Key review – steampunk sci-fi animation is eclectic if overwrought
  • How Australia’s social media ban has affected families six months on
  • ‘Loving our country sounds like an abused spouse saying they love their abuser’: Robert De Niro leads crowd in rallying cry against Trump
  • Social media firms hit back as Starmer announces ban for under-16s in UK
  • The man who bought Diane Keaton’s nail clippers also owns Whoopi Goldberg’s teapot: ‘It will have her fingerprints on it’
  • Disclosure Day: alien conspiracies, car chases and a jaw-dropping climax – discuss with spoilers
  • Familiar Touch review – Kathleen Chalfant is wonderful in subtle, sensual memory loss drama
  • Angel’s Egg review – Mamoru Oshii’s dazzling 1985 anime is an eerie philosophical adventure
  • The problem with ‘loneliness influencers’ isn’t their friendlessness – it’s the air of cosy defeatism
  • Dry Leaf review – three-hour amble around the football pitches of Georgia in search of a daughter
  • ‘More relevant now than ever’: how Virginia Woolf recaptured the cultural zeitgeist
  • ‘Distressingly beautiful and disorienting’: the Willem Dafoe film that only one person can see at a time
  • Europe is starting to break up with US big tech. But it’s still abiding by the Silicon Valley rulebook
  • Starmer to announce ‘Australia plus’ ban on social media for under-16s
  • A day in the life of a dancer who went viral for pretending to be a parakeet
  • Why is the UK launching an ‘Australia plus’ social media ban and how will it work?
  • Scientists are working on headphones that block annoying noises and allow the ones you love? I can’t wait!
  • Readers reply: Experts say we should use passkeys, but can a smartphone pin really be safer than a password?
  • Elon Musk and co may relish march of the robots but there must be AI boundaries in the workplace

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