Mail Online has retained its dominant position at the top of the ABCe list for July, recording 70 million monthly users, despite Guardian.co.uk growing its audience by 7.5 per cent. Read the full story

The high court has ruled that BT must block its customers from accessing a filesharing website in a landmark piracy case brought to the courts by Hollywood studios. Read the full story

Viewers wanting to catch up on ITV programming online will have to pay for the privilege come January next year, when the broadcaster will implement a micropayment system into its ITV Player. Read the full story

The News of the World scandal is a powerful example of why the Guardian is shifting to a ‘digital-first’ strategy. Read the full story

One of the original founders of MySpace, Tom Anderson, has admitted that he “choked” before Facebook realised the vision he had set out for his own social media network. Read the full story

The Mail Online continues to assert its dominance in May’s ABCe figures, posting its biggest month-on-month increase in traffic taking it to 77 million unique visitors. Read the full story

Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt has admitted that the search company missed out on “the friends thing”, and is now playing catch-up to the social networking revolution inspired by the likes of Facebook and Twitter. Read the full story

Haymarket is to put its online media network, including Brand Republic, PR Week and Media Week, behind a paywall from July. Read the full story