From 12 January, brands will be able to apply to acquire and manage their own top-level domains, allowing the brand names to feature on the right side of the dot in web addresses.

The CEO of News Corporation has joined Twitter and despite receiving angry tweets from many users, he has over 87,000 followers.

The PRCA and Pearson in Practice have secured government funding for an industry-wide apprenticeship scheme.

International communications consultancy Hill & Knowlton has launched a new name and identity, Hill+Knowlton Strategies.

In January, 500 UK PR professionals will meet to dance the night away and raise money for Bright One at the PR Prom.

James Murdoch has resigned from the boards of Times Newspapers Limited and News Group Newspapers, the News Corp subsidiaries which publish The Times and The Sun.

Aviva, Barclays, Nintendo, UniCredit, and Telefónica were amongst the winners at the 2011 ESA European Sponsorship Awards in Amsterdam last night.

Google+ opened for businesses on 7 November, causing a rush of activity but to date only 26 of the FTSE 100 companies have corporate Google+ pages, the majority of which are not active.

The PRCA Awards 2011 took place last night, 15 November, celebrating the best in PR.