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BBC spent 230m on its talent

Feb 8, 2010 5:20 PM

The publicly funded broadcaster paid the sum to television and radio presenters such as Jonathan Ross in the year to March 2009

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Pizza Hut extend any excuse ad campaign with stickers

Feb 8, 2010 5:30 AM

Pizza Hut is extending its 2m any excuse marketing campaign by launching a series of stickers that consumers can peel-off from selected bus stops.

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Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky sues over Alexander Litvinenko poison link

Feb 8, 2010 8:50 AM

Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky today sued over a "savage libel" that he was behind the terrible murder of Alexander Litvinenko by radioactive poisoning.

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Facebook revises Microsoft display and search deal

Feb 8, 2010 5:20 AM

LONDON - Facebook is to roll out Microsoft's Bing search engine to all its users but Microsoft will no longer sell display ads on the site, in a revised deal between the two digital media giants.

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DST and Naspers/MIH to Merge Nasza-Klasa and Gadu-Gadu in Poland

Feb 8, 2010 5:17 AM

The leading Internet group in Eastern Europe, Naspers/MIH Group, which together with DST (Digital Sky Technology) own the largest Russian online portal, Mail.ru is doing due diligence of assets of DST-owned holding Forticom, reported newspaper…

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New Tweetdeck version puts Twitter on crack, brings in YouTube and Flickr

Feb 8, 2010 12:38 PM

There remains an ongoing desktop Twitter application war. Traditionally Tweetdeck and Seesmic have been at loggerheads for the lion share, although Tweetdeck has remained in the lead so far. Increasingly it appears that Seesmic is heading towa…

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You slaaag

Feb 8, 2010 12:05 PM

It’s with a heavy heart that Private Frazer informs you of the death of Global Slag magazine. Even a TV appearance couldn’t save them from the structural failings of publishing a controlled circulation magazine: In October 2006, Gl…

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Drama on BBC HD

Feb 8, 2010 11:10 AM

News from the Head of BBC HD on dramas that'll be coming to the channel.

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Berlin's Brands4friends Invests in London's SecretSale

Feb 8, 2010 2:04 PM

Shopping club Brands4friends.de, based in Berlin, has made an investment in similar site SecretSale, although they are not disclosing. If you are not familiar with either company, we first noticed Brands4friends.de at the 2009 NOAH Conference …

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Model clauses for overseas transfers of personal data updated

Feb 8, 2010 10:26 AM

European companies will have to use new standard clauses in the contracts that control their overseas transfers of personal data as a result of a formal Decision adopted by the European Commission on Friday.

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Shopping sites improve legal compliance as consumers get more savvy, says OFT

Feb 8, 2010 9:40 AM

Internet shoppers are more aware of their rights and more online retailers are complying with consumer protection laws than previously, according to studies by consumer protection regulator the Office of Fair Trading (OFT).

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Evening Standard 9th, Metro 3rd in readership

Feb 8, 2010 9:31 AM

Readership of the Evening Standard in the least months when the paper moved to free distribution increased to almost 1.37 million according to Stephen Brook in The Guardian. Brook compares readership data over the last three months with the 6 …

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Roll up, get your TechCrunch Europe T-shirts here

Feb 8, 2010 8:21 AM

So for a bit of fun we've decided to open a TechCrunch Europe T-Shirt store on that European startup Spreadshirt. We're going to see how it goes (your feedback is welcome) and the store is very simple (black and white T-shirts). But for no…

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Hovis to launch 100% British wheat themed ad

Feb 8, 2010 8:15 AM

Hovis is to launch a 5m television advertising campaign to support its conversion to 100% British wheat.

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Hot Celsius Raises 3.3M for Luxury Mobile

Feb 8, 2010 7:36 AM

The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch, so goes the aphorism. What if those few who dare are those who do watches? Well...we're paying attention. Celsius started by four thirty-somethings few years back,...

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Greenhouse Emissions Management Platform Raises $5.5M

Feb 8, 2010 2:08 PM

AMEE, a company that provides technology for enterprises to calculate greenhouse emissions, has raised $5.5M (4M) for its newly built carbon computation engine (the largest of its kind). Amadeus Capital led the Series B round; O'Reilly AlphaTe…

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Youngsters explore British Museum with GRDD game

Feb 8, 2010 6:30 AM

Graphics and interactive consultancy GRDD has created an online computer game for the British Museum.

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Garlik partners with stockbroker Selftrade to up-sell its ID fraud protection

Feb 8, 2010 5:48 AM

[UK] The London-based online identity startup Garlik has partnered with the UK online stockbroker Selftrade to offer its customers identity fraud protection. In what looks like a classic premium play, a basic free version of Garlik's offering…

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Name that tool: forthcoming 'BBC Accessibility Settings Tool' needs you

Feb 8, 2010 5:31 AM

A post from the Ouch! blog about the launch of a new accessibility tool that'll help users of the BBC website.

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Weston: Afghan war not like Falklands - from Channel 4 News

Feb 8, 2010 5:00 AM

As the death toll in Afghanistan hits 255, drawing level with that of the Falklands war, veteran Simon Weston tells Channel 4 News why the current conflict is taking place on a very different battleground.

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EC urges Lithuanian regulator to modify broadcast licensing regime - from Media Network Weblog

Feb 8, 2010 4:57 AM

The European Commission has warned the Lithuanian national telecoms regulator RRT that obliging terrestrial broadcasters to use specific suppliers to transmit their programmes constitutes a barrier to competition and prevents new terrestrial t…

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Digital Economy Bill: Lords Want Rights To Link, Format-Shift - from paidContent:UK

Feb 8, 2010 4:51 AM

Conservative Lord Ralph Lucas is using the Digital Economy Bill to wade in to the debate over whether aggregators can freely link to online newspaper material.

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NatMag to launch its own classified ad network

Feb 8, 2010 4:45 AM

LONDON - NatMag is bringing its search and contextual ad sales in-house and launching its own classified ad network.

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British Airways hires Akzo Nobel's Kerris Bright to global marketing role

Feb 8, 2010 4:45 AM

British Airways has hired Kerris Bright to the role of head of marketing, ending a year-long recruitment process.

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