• Telegraph Editor Outlines 'Digital Native' News Future
    Telegraph Media Group editor in chief Jason Seiken has outlined his vision for creating a "digitally native" news organisation which can thrive in a new "golden age" for journalism. Speaking at the Newsworks conference in London he said: "The pessimists say we are living in desperate times...We are actually living in a golden age of journalism". He said that historically "disrupting technology" has led to "better choices for consumers and better economics for producers".
  • BlackBerry Could Help Steer Driverless Cars
    Italy's VisLab has selected BlackBerry's QNX OS to power its computer vision experiments in autonomous cars. The idea is to help the car to combine and process the information it gets from two-dozen different sensors. BlackBerry's QNX operating system may not be the hit in mobile phones that the company hoped, but one day QNX may be helping you with a different kind of mobility: the autonomous car.
  • Cara Delevingne Uses Instagram To Sell YSL Lippy
    Cara Delevingne, the world's most socially active model, has released snippets of the new YvesSaintLaurent lipstick ad through her Instagram account to a whopping five million adoring fans. Four 10-second clips show Delevingne smoldering in the lippy - sharing the sequence with her own masculine inspired reflection - because, surely, one Cara isn't enough.
  • News UK Buys Handpicked Collection Luxury Site
    The multi-award-winning website - including winner of the 2013 Online 'gift' Retailer of The Year - sets itself apart from the crowd of e-retailers with its unique panel of expert journalists and trendsetters who select and recommend new high quality products for The Handpicked Collection's discerning customers, says News UK.
  • Guru-Murthy Urges Brands Invest In Short-form Vids
    "Social media and the people on it are very sophisticated, and they do not like to be obviously sold the way a lot of brands would like, and the way they used to in terms of old fashioned television spot advertising. And so you've got to think much more cleverly about what kind of content you are thinking of commissioning," said Channel 4 presenter Krishnan Guru-Murthy.
  • Turkey Defies Court, Keep Ban On YouTube
    Turkish authorities defied court orders and reaffirmed a ban on YouTube imposed after the posting of illicit recordings of top secret security talks that was cited by Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan as part of a "dirty campaign" to topple him. Authorities imposed the ban on Google's video-sharing site on March 27 in the build-up to local elections, after weeks of leaked wiretaps which had emerged online.
  • LinkedIn Users Looking For Content, Editor Says
    LinkedIn users are looking to share articles that interest them, the Digital Media Europe conference heard Wednesday. Isabelle Roughol, France editor for LinkedIn, told delegates that, compared to five years ago, there are five times as many people coming to the site for content than for jobs searches.
  • Sajid Javid Promoted To Culture, Media, Sport Secretary
    He replaces Maria Miller, who resigned last night amid mounting pressure over her Commons expenses. Javid is MP for Bromsgrove MP, a former managing director at Deutsche Bank, and has long been tipped as a rising star in the Conservative Party and has served as Financial Secretary to the Treasury since last October.
  • European Digital Media Award Winners Announced
    The winners of the European Digital Media Awards, the annual prizes from the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA), were presented Tuesday. The awards recognise outstanding work by European publishers in digital advertising, data visualization, tablet publishing, mobile service, news websites, reader engagement, online video, and outstanding new projects.
  • Bobbi Brown Takes Editorial Role At Yahoo Beauty
    In a rare jump by a retail executive onto the masthead of a media outlet that covers her industry, Bobbi Brown, the makeup mogul, will take over Yahoo's beauty section later this month, the company announced on Wednesday. As editor-in-chief of Yahoo Beauty, Brown "will lead editorial direction, original content and the expansion and re-imagination" of the section. Brown said she would keep her role at her cosmetics company, "confident that the two positions will inform and strengthen each other".
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