giffgaff has announced it will offer iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus (PRODUCT)RED Special Edition, the new generation of iPhone in a red finish. Both phones sport a glass enclosure, now in red, with a matching aluminium band and a sleek black front.

As technology continues to advance so does everything else associated with it, including social media. Platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn have to be at the forefront of new innovations that are likely to happen, or they will fall behind their competitors. There will probably be many changes to these platforms over the next year, but what are the expected trends for social media for 2018?

MAGIX Software has announced Photostory Premium VR, its first virtual reality software. Now virtual worlds can be created in just a few steps with conventional photos and videos, and no additional hardware is required.

Digital marketing agency Mediaworks is celebrating the launch of The Royal Mint’s Great British Coin Hunt app, which they designed and developed. Mediaworks was chosen to create an app to support The Royal Mint’s release of 26 new 10p coins, which together depict an A-Z of quintessentially British items, locations and personas, from Stonehenge to James Bond.

Thursday 27th April will see the return of Code in the Dark, a competition that pits the best front-end developers against each other to show off their skills in front of a live audience of digital enthusiasts. Epiphany, the search marketing agency based in Leeds, first brought the event to the UK in 2016.