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Apple launches music social network Ping

Sep 2, 2010 4:10 AM

Apple has launched Ping, a social media service that works with iTunes and lets users follow musicians and friends.

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BBC Guilty Of 'Massive Bias To The Left' - from Sky News

Sep 2, 2010 4:00 AM

The BBC used to have a "massive bias to the left", the broadcaster's director general Mark Thompson has declared.

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Sony takes on iTunes with music and film downloads

Sep 2, 2010 4:25 AM

Sony is launching a music download service that will let users access music through PlayStation3, as well as computer and television, and rival services including Apple's iTunes.

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Camelot gets biggest web audience rise in past year

Sep 2, 2010 5:49 AM

Camelot Group was the fastest growing company online in the last year, beating Facebook, according to online measurement service UKOM.

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Bertelsmann to inject capital into BMG

Sep 1, 2010 8:51 PM

The German media group says it will support its music publishing business's ambitious plans to grow by acquisition and match the €200m KKR will invest over the next two to three years

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World Association of Newspapers steals content

Sep 2, 2010 7:10 AM

Checking the ‘Austria’ entry in the 2010 copy of World Press Trends, I stumbled upon a familiar text on page 247: Free Austrian newspaper Oberösterreichs Neue, published in the Linz area, closed in May 2009. Declining adver

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New train ticketing site bets on station-based mobile games to reach customers

Sep 2, 2010 7:05 AM

Quno, the soon-to-be-launched train information website, is tapping into the trend for location-based social gaming in its first marketing effort.

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Libel tourism is a very rare thing in UK courts, finds study

Sep 2, 2010 6:25 AM

Just three out of 83 defamation cases reported in the UK in the past year involved libel tourism, according to a study. Concern about foreign residents suing foreign publishers in UK courts greatly outweighs its actual occurrence, the figures …

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ITV expands cross-platform offering for This Morning

Sep 2, 2010 5:57 AM

ITV is stepping up its cross-platform offering for daytime show This Morning with the launch of an interactive studio hub.

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AOL creates 20 new software engineer jobs in Dublin

Sep 2, 2010 5:47 AM

AOL has announced that it is creating 20 new software engineering jobs at its Dublin Development Centre, the majority of which will be with AOL’s Media Technology division and will focus on "developing AOL’s global media channels" …

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SCVNGR launches in the UK through partnership with ‘stealth’ rail search and booking service Quno

Sep 2, 2010 5:16 AM

The U.S. location-based social gaming platform SCVNGR is launching in the UK today through a partnership with Quno, a web based rail search and booking service due to launch later this year. It will give rail passengers the opportunity to "par…

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Withings scores 3 million euros for the tweeting wifi scale and more

Sep 2, 2010 5:03 AM

Withings, the Paris-based company behind the famous tweeting wifi body scale, has just scored 3 million euros from French VC firm, Ventech. It's the company's first round of funding and will be used primarily for the development of 2 new produ…

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Sharp returns to football sponsorship with Euro 2012 deal

Sep 2, 2010 8:15 AM

Sharp, the electronics manufacturer, has become a UEFA partner to the end of 2013, covering the 2012 European football championships in Poland and Ukraine.

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New Look relaunches customer mag

Sep 2, 2010 4:00 AM

New Look is reviving its customer magazine to connect with new and existing customers.

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#Tip of the day from Journalism.co.uk – using OpenHeatMap for visualisations

Sep 2, 2010 3:00 AM

Mapping: Great video from OpenHeatMap's Pete Warden on how to use the tool to create visualisations of geographic data - mainly US and maps of the world available - but worth playing with. Tipster: Laura Oliver. To submit a tip to Journalism.co.uk, u

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Deal Machine - Not Just Another CRM Tool

Sep 2, 2010 1:05 AM

Deal Machine, which just recently launched, is a new Finnish startup shooting to take on the CRM giants. The origins of this web-based customer database management system date back to the beginning of this summer when a group of young entrepre…

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