London will host the inaugural Internet Week Europe in November, with a host of the web's best known brands involved in a seven day celebration sponsored by Yahoo.

Internet Week has proven to be a success in the US, where the New York celebration has been running for three years.

And now the organiser David-Michael Davies along with Nicolas Roope and Nick Farnhill are keen to bring the event to Europe.

London calling

"We started in New York because we really just wanted to bring the industry to life and found – because it's New York – that we got national interest, people coming from all over the country and having events in the city," Davies told the Guardian. "Now we want to bring people to London.

"We felt we wanted to engage the entire European industry and London is a similar city to New York in that every internet company has an outpost there or travels through there.

"It's a big, big benefit to the city here in New York. The community comes together to help programme everything and it really is part of the story of the resurgence of the tech industy here in New York."

Internet Week Europe will run from 8-12 November, and more details on the events are expected to trickle out until those dates.

Facebook has denied rumours that it is planning on developing mobile phone hardware in the future, although has confirmed that it is pushing deeper into the mobile space.

The initial rumour of a 'Facebook phone' came from TechCrunch, with the website claiming that it has sources close to a Facebook project that claim the company is working with an unnamed third party to build mobile hardware.

Facebook already has a number of smartphone apps, with plans to develop those already available and release more in the near future.

Jaime Schopflin, a spokesman for Facebook, said in no uncertain terms that the company "is not building a phone."

Deeper integration with mobile

Schopflin added that Facebook's current projects included "deeper integrations with some [mobile] manufacturers," adding:

"Our view is that almost all experiences would be better if they were social, so integrating deeply into existing platforms and operating systems is a good way to enable this.

"The bottom line is that whenever we work on a deep integration, people want to call it a 'Facebook Phone' because that's such an attractive soundbite, but building phones is just not what we do," Schopflin added.