• Facebook To Move UK HQ; Google Shifts North
    Facebook has signed a deal to move its UK headquarters from London's Covent Garden to almost 90,000 sq ft of space just north of Tottenham Court Road. Its firm has signed a 10-year lease for two floors of a new building on 10 Brock Street where Twitter and Manchester City FC will be fellow tenants. Yahoo had also been looking at the building off Hampstead Road, according to Building.co.uk. Google is also moving from London's West End - work on its new headquarters next to King's Cross station has already begun.
  • Social Backlash Results In Costume Withdrawals
    A social media campaign has forced Tesco and Asda to remove Halloween costumes from stores. Asda's promotion of a costume called "Mental Patient Fancy Dress Costume", selling for GBP20, sparked the fury of mental health workers. They took to Twitter to criticise Asda, which in turn apologised. In a series of Tweets, Asda declared, "We're deeply sorry one of our fancy dress costumes has upset people. This was an unacceptable error - the product was withdrawn immediately."
  • UK Tablet Audience Nears 13 Million Mark
    ComScore and UK Online Measurement (UKOM) have revealed 12.8m people went online via tablets in the UK this July, ahead of the unveiling of their first wave of tablet data to the market next week (1 October). The companies have been developing their first tablet metrics over the last year in response to the pressing commercial need to quantify the rise in multi-device media consumption habits.
  • Radio Listeners Refuse To Embrace Digital Sets
    New figures released by Ofcom show that two thirds of all radios sold in Britain over the past year were traditional analogue sets. A total of 1.9m digital radios have been bought since mid-2012, a figure which has flatlined from the same figure from 2009. Just fewer than half of all UK adults own a DAB set and the proportion of listening hours accrued through digital mediums stands even lower, at 33.9%.
  • MPs Accuse Google Of Online Piracy Failure
    The UK Culture, Media and Sport select committee report criticised the search giant's 'derisory' efforts to deal with online piracy saying that some of its activities were not justified. MPs also allege that Google's failure also endangered thousands of British jobs in the creative industries which claimed to have contributed GBP36bn per year to the country's economy.
  • Viacom Expanding Through Central Eastern Europe
    The deal is set to broaden the network's coverage and fan-base in the region via its channels such as Nickelodeon and Comedy Central. Comedy Central regularly comes in as first among the most viewed Hungarian cable channels and Nickelodeon will be available in more households in Hungary and Romania with the new deal - an additional 3 million households in Romania and 500,000 new households in Hungary from this October. Nickelodeon outperformed its plans in the region in 2012, says VIMN.
  • After 4 Months, UsVsTh3m Breaks Millionth Milestone
    Trinity Mirror site UsVsTh3m has broken the one million monthly user barrier four months after it was launched. The site, which features humour, entertainment news and online games, quizzes and other interactive content, attracted more than one million unique browsers in September (the publisher claims), achieving the milestone with five days to spare before the end of the month. Trinity Mirror launched UsVsTh3m in May in an effort "to appeal to a different audience" from its newspaper sites.
  • Columnist Says Tweet Got Him Banned By EasyJet
    EasyJet is at the centre of fierce criticism after The Drum's tech law columnist Mark Leiser tweeted that an easyJet manager had stopped him boarding a flight because he'd criticised the airliner on Twitter. Leiser's flight from Glasgow to London but it was hit by delays. He tweeted late on Tuesday night that delays had prevented a serving soldier - who was on route to take part in active service - from making an essential travel connection and easyJet had refused to help pay to get him to his destination.
  • World's Oldest Newspaper Quits Print
    Lloyd's List, which lays claim to be the world's oldest continuously published newspaper, is to become a totally digital entity by the end of this year. The paper, founded in 1734, is regarded as the leading news, analysis and data source for the global shipping industry. So the decision by its owning company, Informa, to stop printing is rightly viewed as a landmark moment.
  • Time Out London Lets Readers Do The Writing
    Time Out London has unveiled its user generated issue of the magazine, as the magazine marks one year since it moved to a free distribution model. Billed as 'The Great Time Out Takeover', the content for this week's magazine has been entirely created by a team of 150 readers, chosen by Time Out's section editors, following a competition hosted on the Time Out website.
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