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'Daily Mail' Assails Government, Google 'Closeness'
TechCrunch
The UK tabloid is raising the issue of the search giant's influence on UK government after it found that Conservative Party ministers have held meetings with Google an average of once a month since the General Election two years ago. There have been 23 meetings between Tory ministers and Google since June 2010, with Prime Minister David Cameron meeting Google three times and George Osborne - who as Chancellor of the Exchequer is supposed to meet with business leaders - four times in two years.
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Digital Revenues Up 9% For Centaur Media
Journalism.co.uk
The publisher of Marketing Week, The Lawyer and Money Marketing has reported a gain in digital, which now represents 31% of the B2B publisher's total revenues. Print revenues, however, suffered a 3% drop, while underlying digital revenues rose 7%, and the events part of the business gained 6%. In April the group confirmed up to 10 editorial jobs were at risk, the same month as a paywall was introduced for digital-only title New Media Age.
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Russian 'Facebook' Loses Appeal On Copyright
PaidContent.org
Facebook may have just scored a potential victory in Russia. The country's most popular social network, vKontakte, has lost its court appeal against an earlier ruling that itsfeature integrating with file-sharing software breaches copyright. The case was brought by subsidiaries of EMI, which complained that vKontakte users were sharing their music without authorisation.
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Welch Town Decked Out In Wikipedia Signage
The Telegraph
In addition to Wale's first town-wide free wifi, the town project will use special barcodes, called QR codes, mounted on the sides of buildings, to allow visitors with smartphones to scan them and instantly access up-to-date Wikipedia entries about all aspects of Monmouth life. According to the head of Wikimedia UK Roger Bamkin, "the town is likely the only place where a visitor can tour in Hungarian, Hindi, Indonesian, Welsh, or numerous other Wikipedia languages using QR codes".
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Virgin Media Dares Developers To Create Game In 100 Days
Gamers Daily News
Virgin Media has announced the launch of its '100 Day Game Project' in association with Eurogamer and The University of Abertay Dundee. The company is calling for the best emerging young games developers in the UK to create a groundbreaking new mobile game in just 100 days. The game will be unveiled at the Eurogamer Expo 2012 where over 50,000 gamers are set to attend the four day event.
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BSkyB Reportedly Getting Regulation Reprieve
Fox Business News
he U.K. competition regulator is expected to give British Sky Broadcasting Group PLC (BSY.LN) a reprieve in the local film market, as rivals such as Lovefilm and Netflix Inc. (NFLX) are undermining the pay-television operator's dominance and reducing the need to impose restrictions, according to the Mail on Sunday newspaper, without saying where it got its information.
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