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Fox Interactive Media’s first UK and Europe MD David Fischer, who left after a year in the job in April 2007, is back, this time leading UK… Read more »
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Carol Bartz, whom Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) has confirmed as its new CEO, will preside over a downsized, demasculated Yahoo in Europe, where Google… Read more »
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Arabic news network Al Jazeera is encouraging viewers to proliferate images of Israel’s Gaza bombardment, releasing broadcast-quality video… Read more »
Vivendi (EPA: VIV) is reducing the book value of its 20 percent stake in the NBC Universal (NYSE: GE) joint venture. The French conglomerate… Read more »
MagicStudio, a social education platform operated by Lexara, has scored £750,000 in venture funding from new fund Andromeda Capital and SEG… Read more »
Global Radio is laying off around 40 of its 112-strong online and interactive team, paidContent:UK has confirmed with the company. Five of t… Read more »
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Guildford, Surrey-based MirriAd, which uses its technology to digitally add product placement in movies, video, games and DVDs, has raised Read more »
– BBC in Bangladesh: The World Service Trust is to work with Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC) to develop mobile learning projects in Bangladesh. The S… Read more »
The Financial Times Group is making another 80 redundancies worldwide after opting for further online/print integration and to eliminate ove… Read more »
– BBC in Bangladesh: The World Service Trust is to work with Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC) to develop mobile learning projects in Bangladesh. The S… Read more »
The number of UK marketers who upped their online spend in Q4 fell to a nine-year low, the Institute of Practitioners in Advertising’s (IP… Read more »
Fresh from making $140 million from the sale of Bebo and a “substantial return” on the sale of MySQL, Balderton Capital is announcing a new… Read more »
New media regulations are like London buses – you wait for the longest time for one to come along, then two come at once. The next two weeks… Read more »
In the fast-growing Russian internet scene, one of the big three portals, Rambler, could be about to lose its CEO, after dropping market sha… Read more »
Fresh from making $140 million from the sale of Bebo and a “substantial return” on the sale of MySQL, Balderton Capital is announcing a new… Read more »
Once upon a time, after what optimistic folk call “the first bubble”, some entrepreneurs, realising their web startups would never amount to… Read more »
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Spanish user-generated local reviews site Salir.com is getting bankrolled to the tune of Read more »
Peter Chernin ruled himself out, ex Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) chief Arun Sarin said no, and former AOL (NYSE: TWX) CEO Jon Miller reportedly also… Read more »
BBC iPlayer is getting some early exposure to the social TV future, ahead of the planned rollout of its own social sharing features later… Read more »
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A group of European Parliamentarians has asked the institution to reject plans to cap SMS and data roaming charges across the continent. The… Read more »
Phorm’s CEO has appeared to refute a suggestion the on-ISP behavioural ad targeter may pay users to sign up to the service. NMA said Phorm “… Read more »
French social media brand marketing platform Eyeka has been going through a top-tier overhaul. CEO Sadek Chekroun, who was Kelkoo’s French M… Read more »
Their fortunes are poles apart and yet inseparable — one is hauling in buckets of advertising, the other is losing it at an alarming rate.… Read more »
HTC income rose by more than a fifth from last year during the quarter in which it unveiled the first Android-powered smartphone. Net income… Read more »
It’s taken a while, but ITV (LSE: ITV) is now firmly getting its video-on-demand mojo on. After getting carriage on BT (NYSE: BT) Vision rec… Read more »
Kangaroo’s chances of launching are getting slimmer, after a second rival VOD operator asked the Competition Commission only to “prohibit” t… Read more »
Even in a downturn, you’ve got to have some down time. 2008 UK home entertainment sales were four percent better than the year before at 4… Read more »
We knew it was too crafty to be true – Norwegian public radio network NRK, which on Monday began giving away The Beatles’ entire back catalo… Read more »
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