• CEO Sounds Caution On Forgetting Print Model
    DC Thomson publishing CEO Ellis Watson has sounded caution over the move by newspaper publishers towards digital, stating that they should not see it "as a default of the print business being broken." Speaking to The Drum, Watson responded to the view of Trinity Mirror CEO Simon Fox, who said last month that digital revenue would offset the decline in print revenue.
  • Digital Editions Prop Up Failing Print Circulation
    he analysis of combined circulation by PPA showed that six out of 55 titles for which a year-on-year comparison could be made upped their circulation in the first six months of 2013, despite a fall in print numbers. Among those to have turned around declining print circulation through digital editions were Conde Nast titles GQ and Wired, Dennis Publishing's Women's Fitness and The Economist's UK edition.
  • First Official Photo Of Prince May Shatter Retweet Record
    According to ibtimes.co.uk, the first official portrait of Prince George will be shared via Twitter sometime soon by Kensington Palace. The photo is expected to break the record for the most amount of retweets. Currently, President Obama holds the record and Prince George needs to get over 500,000 retweets in order to beat him. Mr Obama's record breaking tweet is a photograph of him after he won his re-election last year.
  • Online, Mobile Payments Start-up Comes To The UK
    Stripe, which was first tipped for a UK rollout earlier this year, has already reached "significant" scale in the US, processing millions of dollars daily for companies including Foursquare, Heroku and Reddit. The service is designed to render online payments simpler for businesses to accept, claiming those using it can now start accepting card payments online and in mobile apps within minutes.
  • Blog Brings Disney Films Into Social Media Age
    B for Bel, an Australian blog founded by Belinda Tan, has unveiled a series of images bringing classic characters from Disney films into the social media age. Each Instagram snapshot has used hashtags and even brings in other characters from films like Cinderella, Little Mermaid, and Snow White. Tan's project, which was inspired by "internet culture" and our love of peeking into everyone else's lives, comes after Israeli photographer Dina Goldstein's 'Fallen Princesses' images went viral.
  • Pocket Shop Delivers In 1 Hour Across London
    Startup Pocket Shop has launched a one hour supermarket delivery service across London designed to cut the waiting time of online deliveries. The service allows users to order shopping online from local stores including Sainsbury's, Tesco, Boots and Waitrose that are closest to them. Pocket Shop said it carries out deliveries on foot to reduce carbon footprint. Delivery charges depend on time, costing GBP6.50 to receive your shopping within one hour, GBP5.50 in two hours and GBP5.10 in three hours.
  • Europe Edition Of Economist Gets Highest Digital Boost
    The continental Europe edition of the Economist recorded the highest circulation for digital editions in the first half of the year, according to the latest magazine circulation figures from the Audit Bureau of Circulation. Figures released today for the first six months of the year show that edition of the Economist sold an average of 14,116 digital editions per issue. Other editions of the Economist are recorded separately.
  • Twitter Users Log On Even On Holiday
    According to a new infographic produced by GlobalWebIndex, three quarters of UK users still log on when on holiday, with 59 per cent doing so every single day, gigaom.com reports. Most of this, it has been suggested, comes from Twitter users being able to log on via their smartphones and tablets. With many holidaymakers now taking their connected devices away with them, this means they are just as able to log on to their networks away as they are at home - which is good news for brands using twitter marketing.
  • BBC Journalists Get Raise, Drop Strike Threats
    Management has also agreed to a one per cent increase on the level of minimum pay grades. This is an increase of a previous pay offer of GBP600 for all staff. Union members at the BBC remain opposed to compulsory redundancies which so far appear to have been avoided among journalists.
  • Ex-Footballer To Host Sun's Online Saturday Show
    Former England international footballer Ian Wright is to host a new football programme to be hosted on The Sun's paywalled website. Wright, a long-standing columnist for the paper, will present The Sun FC's weekly Saturday show from this weekend. It will be available 6.30am on Saturday. In addition, Wright's Monday to Friday show will launch next week and be available from 4.30pm every day.
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