According to ZenithOptimedia projections, the Internet will attract 21% more ad spend each year, and will take a total 22.1% stake by 2014. ZenithOptimedia's latest findings show that 25% of advertising money is already online in Denmark, Norway, South Korea, Sweden and the UK. The findings also show that Canada, China, Norway, South Korea, Sweden and the UK will hit 30% by 2014.

Intel is developing an Internet-based TV service for consumers and has been promoting it with media companies. According to the Wall Street Journal,  the world's leading chipmaker plans to create a "virtual cable operator" that would offer TV channels in a bundle via the Internet and an Intel set-top box. The chipmaker reportedly told its potential partners it wants to start the service before the end of the year. 

According to AFP around 200 Arabian bloggers involved in cyber activism will be gathering in Tunis to discuss the role of social networking and the internet in terms of political change and transition following the ‘Arab Spring’. The meeting is the third of its kind in the Arab world, following gatherings in Beirut in 2008 and 2009.