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Mobile Commerce in Europe Faces Language Issues
Mobile Commerce Press
Mobile commerce has managed to make major progress in the U.S. and Japan, but in Europe, mobile commerce has met with significant challenges that extend well beyond issues concerning security and efficiency. Language and infrastructure have proven to be the most complicated problems faced by the mobile commerce sector in Europe. Both the U.S. and Japan enjoy universal e-commerce markets due to the fact that both countries have a predominant language. Europe, however, is filled with countries that have very different languages from one another, making it difficult to create a universal mobile commerce ecosystem.
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BuzzFeed Faces Copyright Lawsuit Over Viral Model
PaidContent.org
An Idaho photographer, Kai Eiselein, has filed a copyright lawsuit against BuzzFeed, claiming the site used one his images without permission for a soccer montage called "The 30 Funniest header faces." The lawsuit, filed in New York earlier this month, claims BuzzFeed owes more than $3.6 million in damages as a result of the soccer pic appearing on 64 sites around the web. According to Eiselein, who uploaded the original image to Flickr, BuzzFeed is liable for "contributory infringement" because the site's viral news model encourages readers to share the content they find.
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People's Nigella Scoop Breaks Online Record
Press Gazette
Last weekend's Sunday People splash showing Nigella Lawson apparently being attacked by husband Charles Saatchi has been viewed 20 million times, according to a well-placed source at the paper. The story is already the most popular article ever published on MirrorOnline. A Trinity Mirror spokesperson declined to reveal the precise amount of traffic generated by the picture-led exclusive.
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61% UK Facebook Users Like At Least 1 Biz Page
The Guardian
Facebook now has more than 1 million companies and brands advertising on its service, with 61% of its users in the UK having 'Liked' at least one local business' page on the social network. The 1 million milestone was announced by Facebook's director of global marketing solutions for small- and medium-sized businesses, Dan Levy, on the company's blog.
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Hacker Hijacks Peppa Pig World's Facebook Page
The Guardian
Cyber-attacks, long the weapon of choice for intelligence services, political dissidents and anti-capitalist protesters seeking to hobble their enemies, are seldom used to pump smut into the primary-coloured and innocent world ofchildren's animation. But on Monday, Peppa Pig, her brother, George Pig, and their parents, Mummy Pig and Daddy Pig, found themselves the victims of a hacker with too much time on their hands - and too many grubby thoughts on their mind.
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Netflix Set To Go Dutch This Year
The Drum
Netflix is to continue its global expansion drive by introducing its film streaming service to the Netherlands later in the year. The U.S. firm is keen to further expand its presence in Europe with this being its seventh territory on the continent, the first in a more cautious roll-out programme after earlier breakneck expansion racked up losses.
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Forecast: Digital Media To Drive UK Ad Spend Up
The Guardian
Almost GBP400 million in print advertising is forecast to be lost from the UK newspaper market by the end of 2014, with digital revenues only able to make up about 25% of this decline, according to a new report by Group M. Group M, WPP's worldwide media buying operation, said that the total UK ad market is looking to be in relatively rude health this year, underpinned by an increase of more than GBP1 billion of digital ad investment by the end of 2014.
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