• Kate Burns, Ex-CEO Of AOL Europe, Opens Firm
    Accelerate Worldwide, a commercial management firm co-founded by former CEO of AOL Europe Kate Burns and UK executives Anne Macartney, Pat Nelson, Nimeshh Patel and Anthony Webb, has opened the doors to its offices in London and New York. The five are business leaders across digital, retail, sports, brand marketing, technology, entertainment and mobile and count some of world's best-known brands and early stage companies amongst their experience.
  • Future's E-ditions Take In 5 Million Euros
    Magazine publisher Future has sold more than GBP5m worth of digital editions of titles including Total Film and Metal Hammer in the last 11 months. Future, the publisher of titles including Metal Hammer, Fast Car and T3, launched a range of e-editions of many of its titles on Apple's Newsstand service for iPads last October. T3 is the biggest digital seller in the UK, MacLife gains this accolade in the US and Total Film is the third most popular title overall.
  • Glamour To Publish On IPad, Kindle In 2013
    The digital edition apps will feature all of the print magazines editorial and advertising content, as well as media rich enhanced specials. The Glamour magazine sales team has now been enabled to sell digital advertising, both display and custom solution activity. The structure will work in a similar way to parent publishing house Cond Nast's Wired brand, whereby the print team is responsible for all solus advertising, whilst the central digital team remain in control of all multi-site activity.
  • Last Of The Analogue TV Channels Turned Off
    The era of analogue television has come to an end in England, after the final channels were switched off for good in the North East. The landmark comes as the GBP630 million digital TV switchover project nears its completion, with the Northern Ireland TV region the last to make the transition to digital in late October. As with all other switched areas, the move means that extra digital channels can become available to all viewers, including the Freeview HD service being broadcast from local transmitters for the first time.
  • Most 5-Year-Old Brits Are Online, McAfee Says
    Some 82% have access to a computer, smartphone, tablet or other way of getting online, the security firm McAfee said, based on a poll of 2,000 parents of children aged five to 15. The younger generation's ready take-up of the internet figure contrasts with official government statistics, which show that 7% of over-75 have never been online.
  • Mike Baxter To Keynote A4U Expo London
    The managing director of sales at Logiq will be holding a presentation called "Getting Personal to Drive Conversion - Customer Behaviour Meets Big Data" at the A4U Expo in London 16-17 Oct. He will discuss how the use of data and the science of purchase behaviour can be used to tailor both content and the customer journey to positively influence conversion.
  • Guardian, Cardiff U. Offer Digital Journalism MA
    The Guardian is moving into the training business by offering a masters degree in journalism with digital media in conjunction with Cardiff University. Fees for the MA are expected to be in line with other London journalism MA courses. City University charges GBP9,000 for its journalism MA to EU students, and GBP18,000 to those from outside the EU. The course is set to start in September 2013 and is likely to be based at The Guardian's Kings Place HQ and at another central London location.
  • UK Firm Offers Social Media Insurance
    IAllow will help bury search engine results of your embarrassing social media incident to make it harder for people to find. If your account has been hacked, your identity stolen, iallow will take legal steps to try and discover the perpetrator's identity. Head of communications at iAllow, Joe Wiggins told News Ltd that the company wanted to help people realise how easy it was to be careless with social media.
  • Finances Bring U-turn In Murdoch's Google War
    Australian media mogul Rupert Murdoch has conceded defeat in a long running and bitter battle with Google, over fears that his newspapers are haemorrhaging readers as they do not appear in the search engines rankings. Murdoch initially instructed News Corporation to withdraw articles from its staple of quality papers; such as The Times, from appearing in the listings after branding the internet giant as a 'parasite' and 'content kleptomaniac'.
  • Waitrose Prepares Online Food Video Hub
    The UK supermarket will launch a food-related online video channel this autumn, the first retailers to do so. Waitrose TV has been designed in conjunction with Red Bee Media, which the company says will inspire cooks, whether watching on their computers, tablets or smartphones. Waitrose TV features six channels. The 'highlights' channel includes new videos every week.
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