Computer Business Review
The Norwegian company is planning to reveal its upcoming browser for Android at Mobile World Congress this month in Barcelona. Opera Software has announced its browser products on phones, tablets, TVs and computers have reached 300 million monthly users. "We have experienced the fastest acceleration in user growth we have ever seen," said Opera Software CEO, Lars Boilesen. "Now, we are shifting into the next gear to claim a bigger piece of the pie in the smartphone market."
Computer Business Review
YouTube was banned due to a video that showed how to commit suicide. YouTube has filed an appeal in a Moscow court against the Russian regulator, Roscomnadzor, for blocking its content in the country. The Russian watchdog reportedly blacklisted the site based upon a video, entitled "video lesson on how to cut your veins," which Roscomnadzor claims how to commit suicide.
The Drum
A global marketing campaign will include a new print and online creative by adam&eveDDB, featuring a rolled up Financial Times with the tagline 'Still guiding the way for global business'. The campaign will appear in selected print and digital titles as well as on digital outdoor screens in London. New subscribers had the opportunity on Feb. 13 to purchase a one-year subscription to FT.com for $125/GBP125/EUR125.
Digital Spy
Mensch told The Guardian: "Since I left parliament, I've been getting more interested in fashion. I felt I no longer had to wear the straitjacket of the uniform of the professional woman who goes into an office every day. I do think it's wrong to focus on women politicians based on style. That doesn't mean, however, that as a woman you have no interest in style whatsoever. And it's something that I've gradually fallen into as I've had a bit more time [in New York]."
The Drum
The competition will run via a dedicated Facebook page, where people can submit their entries and view other candidates' photos. Winners of each challenge will be announced on a weekly basis, and a prize of an all-expenses-paid safari trip to Kenya, including a Lipton tea plantation tour, will be awarded to the overall winner. The four-week campaign, "Liptagram", is a first for the Unilever brand.
Press Gazette
Deputy Labour leader Harriet Harman told the House of Commons Labour had been engaging in talks in "good faith", but added: "What Leveson proposes is fair and is reasonable, it protects free speech and protects people from abuse and harassment by the press. "There can be no justification for watering it down. "The most straightforward way of implementing Leveson is by statute rather than by Royal Charter and statute, but whatever the route that is chosen it must be the full Leveson not Leveson lite."
The Drum
An image of the front cover posted on Chi's website reads 'Kate & William in Mustique: The belly grows', an act which St James's Palace has described as 'a clear breach of the couples right to privacy.' Whilst the Royals are fair game in Europe Britain's notoriously rabid tabloid press have kept themselves on a tight leash amidst the ongoing fallout from the phone-hacking inquiry.
PaidContent.org
Dutch newspaper publisher Jan-Jaap Heij talks about why he decided to launch a mobile app that allows readers to subscribe to individual writers for a monthly fee, and how personal brands are the future of journalism. In the future, he said, The New Press may also offer packages of writers focused around specific topics such as sports or crime.
Journalism.co.uk
Following a mobile-first strategy may be new, but the commuter title has always considered itself a mobile product, providing bite-size, snackable content that is easily digestible on tube journeys. Herein, a look at how Metro is learning about the "new paradigms" and behaviours that come with mobile, how journalists are now writing mobile-friendly headlines and the early results of creating 'contextual web editions'.
The Drum
It has been announced that the Evening Standard and the Independent, both titles owned by Alexander Lebedev, are set to move towards holding "full editorial integration" to support new TV station, London Live. The move will see Independent on Sunday editor, John Mullin, leave, and Chris Blackhurst to be in charge of the new seven day operation. As part of this, the editorial for the Evening Standard and Independent will be pooled together, with suggestions of up to 20 job losses.