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Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Thu 07 Aug 2008 06:56 AM PST
Teletext Holidays, probably the main reason anyone still uses the ageing TV text brand, is going full-steam into developing its mobile offering, and plans to offer holidays for sale wirelessly.…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Thu 07 Aug 2008 09:00 AM PST
Commercial WiFi provider The Cloud is doing another carrot-and-stick deal with a content site. Though time on a Cloud hotspot (available in 7,000 bars and cafes across the UK) costs…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Thu 07 Aug 2008 06:56 AM PST
On the heels of Vodafone’s new music store yesterday, O2 is itself doing a new music play of its own, and with SonyBMG the only label on board. It’s added…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Thu 07 Aug 2008 03:13 AM PST
It always looked optimistic, ITV’s goal of reaping £150 million from online revenue by 2010. But yesterday the troubled broadcaster pushed the goal back to 2012. Consumer MD Jeff Henry…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Thu 07 Aug 2008 01:39 AM PST
Virgin Media (NSDQ: VMED) will begin offering 50Mbps broadband in the second half of the year and mobile broadband dongles in Q4. Virgin is late to the UK’s booming broadband…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Thu 07 Aug 2008 01:18 AM PST
-- Sky: BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) has moved quickly to replace outgoing mobile head Tim Satchell, today appointing biz dev director Emma Lloyd in his place. Before Sky, Lloyd was MD…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Wed 06 Aug 2008 05:33 AM PST
Uri Geller‘s Explorologist company has agreed to license a controversial YouTube video via Creative Commons, after money changed hands in a court case about the disputed clip. The case began…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Wed 06 Aug 2008 05:12 AM PST
-- Johnston Press: The regional publisher is closing recruitment site JobsToday’s London sales office after deciding to focus on local advertising rather than job agencies. It places eight jobs at…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Wed 06 Aug 2008 01:37 AM PST
ITV (LSE: ITV) trumpeted online audience increases in a briefing with analysts this morning (Friends Reunited got a record 6.6 million in July, up from April’s 3.8 million after it…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Tue 05 Aug 2008 11:53 PM PST
ITV (LSE: ITV) has set back its ambitious £150 million online revenue target from 2010 to 2012 after only creeping toward that goal since it was set last year. In…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Tue 05 Aug 2008 08:56 AM PST
-- Telegraph.co.uk cuts: Does it say anything about the state of the advertising market that Telegraph.co.uk is shedding ad sales staff? MediaWeek says Telegraph.co.uk’s new online sales head Jeff Turner…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Tue 05 Aug 2008 06:17 AM PST
Here we go again. DMGT’s Northcliffe regional news publisher has finally joined Trinity Mirror, Johnston Press, GMG Regional Media, The Newspaper Society and even Radio Centre in opposing the £23…
Posted By David Kaplan - Tue 05 Aug 2008 05:22 AM PST
As expected, Sony Corp (NYSE: SNE). and Bertelsmann AG have reached an agreement that has Sony buying Bertelsmann’s 50 percent stake in Sony BMG for $1.2 billion (£613.8 million). The…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Tue 05 Aug 2008 02:38 AM PST
-- Channel 4: The £50 million 4iP digital investment fund, to which C4 is contributing £20 million, has delayed its launch from the planned July to September. Spokesman told MediaWeek:…
Posted By Matt Kapko - Mon 04 Aug 2008 02:37 PM PST
Carriers that caught the Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) bug early and secured exclusive distribution rights for the iPhone are clamoring to maintain that position over competitors, but the pool of players…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Mon 04 Aug 2008 10:10 AM PST
-- Universal: After relaunching HMV.com and setting up its still-in-beta social net GetCloser, HMV (LSE: HMV) e-commerce director Gideon Lask is leaving to be business development SVP at Universal Music…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Mon 04 Aug 2008 03:50 AM PST
-- E-Metro: Freesheet Metro is the latest newspaper to roll out a “digital edition”. E-Metro, produced by digital publisher Yudu, tries to replicate the page-turning paradigm of a print newspaper…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Mon 04 Aug 2008 01:35 AM PST
Just a fortnight after raising its cover price in London and the south east, The Sun is bringing it back down again, in a new round of price tinkering that…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Fri 01 Aug 2008 08:04 AM PST
What’s a music label doing launching a comedy site? In time for the Edinburgh Festival, Warner Music Entertainment, WMG’s video wing, has launched MySpace Comedy for the social network, an…
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 31 Jul 2008 09:54 PM PST
Updated: The stake is 10 percent, for $2 million. The deal includes an option to acquire a controlling stake in the company at the end of 2008. The Santa Monica-based…
Posted By David Kaplan - Thu 31 Jul 2008 12:45 PM PST
WPP Group continues its steady pace of digital purchases in growing markets today by taking a majority stake in Russian interactive agency Alite Ltd. The company trades as Actis and…
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Thu 31 Jul 2008 11:50 AM PST
Music start-up vet Mark Piibe is moving to the digital side at EMI as global head of digital business development for EMI Music. Effective immediately, Piibe, who had been SVP-Business…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Thu 31 Jul 2008 08:36 AM PST
-- AOL: AOL’s (NYSE: TWX) Platform-A advertising Hydra, which recently appointed Brendon Condon as London-based international head, has made a series of UK appointments. Just as AOL UK’s MD Michael…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Thu 31 Jul 2008 08:10 AM PST
-- Johnston: Scotsman publisher Johnston Press is the latest to start selling overseas ads on its UK news sites. Mail Online, Guardian.co.uk, Times Online and Telegraph.co.uk are all chasing ads…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Thu 31 Jul 2008 07:40 AM PST
The UK should create a Council For Child Internet Safety that would monitor user-generated content sites for offensive material, according to a wide-ranging paper from the House Of Commons media…
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