Rapid TV News reports that Google’s subsidiary YouTube has been in talks with Hollywood studios to launch pay-per-view video service by the end of this year, according to a report by the Financial Times. YouTube will also be upgrading its mobile video proposition following a study which has shown that within five years, more users will be connected to the internet via mobile rather than desktop PCs.

Financial Times has reported that British Sky Broadcasting is in talks to broadcast a 24-hour rolling news service in Arabic, based in Abu Dhabi, as part of a joint-venture with a local private investor. Entering a highly competitive market, the satellite channel would launch under the Sky News name and be the UK broadcaster's first venture into a territory outside the UK.

The Financial Times has reported that during the opening of the Abu Dhabi Media Summit, Rupert Murdoch, the chairman of News Corp, has warned Middle Easters authorities to liberalise their media markets if they want to attract international media groups and further improve creativity in the Arab world. Mr. Murdoch added that Abu Dhabi could become the capital of creativity that is modern, global and fully Arab, stating that creativity was “the one economic resource that is truly inexhaustible”.

Arabian Business reports that the UK's Financial Times (FT) is to launch a full Middle Eastern edition of its famous newspaper in Abu Dhabi, to be published every Tuesday and Thursday.