• Jury Likely To Decide On Huffington Post Origin
    A New York judge refused to grant a summary judgment motion to Arianna Huffington - meaning that the liberal media icon may have to take the witness stand in coming months to rebut charges she stole the idea for the Huffington Post. Peter Daou and James Boyce claim that they came up with the idea for a liberal news aggregator to counterbalance the influence of the conservative Drudge Report.
  • Independent's App Integrates Print, Digital
    A new app from the Independent aims to integrate the print product with digital interactivity with a design combining the title's newspaper layout with digital practicality. The free app allows readers to swipe through pages and sections of the paper from start to finish and read full articles by tapping them on-screen. The app will update stories and layout three times a day on weekdays and twice a day at weekends.
  • Streaming Music Good For Labels But Is It Viable?
    The title of the press release put out this morning by British music industry body the BPI is clear and unequivocal: "Streaming fuels growth for UK recorded music industry". That's based on figures showing the trade value of recorded music in the UK - the amount labels made after retailers and digital services (from HMV to Apple and Spotify) took their cut - grew 1.9% in 2013 to reach GBP730.4m.
  • Blair Told Brooks To Take Sleeping Pills, 'Tough Up'
    Tony Blair offered to act as an "unofficial adviser" and allegedly told Rebekah Brooks to "tough up" when she sought his guidance at the height of the phone- hacking crisis at the News of the World, prosecutors have told the Old Bailey. The former prime minister, who also allegedly advised taking sleeping pills, had an hour-long conversation with Brooks in July 2011.
  • Most Digital Budgets Will Go To Content Marketing
    Content marketing remains the name of the game over the next 12 months it seems, with the latest Marketing Budgets Report 2014 from Econsultancy and Responsys revealing that out of the 71% looking to boost their digital marketing budgets this year, 74% will be focused on enhancing content marketing. Check out the numbers.
  • Cop Gets Advice, Has Twitter Feed Restored
    The @MentalHealthCop Twitter feed of police inspector Michael Brown has been reinstated by West Midlands police after he was given "informal advice" over allegations of inappropriate use of direct messaging and social media. It is expected to reappear later this week, following the outcome of an internal investigation into the allegations.
  • Mastercard Calls 'Pass For Tweet' Highly Inappropriate
    The brand responded to the fallout from House PR's disastrous PR strategy of asking Telegraph journalist Tim Walker to agree to publish promotional tweets for Mastercard and guarantee editorial coverage in exchange for his press pass following condemnation from members of the media industry and public.
  • Redesign Makes News UK's Times+ More Mobile-friendly
    The re-design of the website, carried out by digital agency Clock, was aimed at making the service more mobile-friendly after analysis showed that 45 per cent of users accessed it via a smartphone or tablet. As well as layout design changes, work was carried out on improving the site's infrastructure and user experience.
  • King Digital Looking To Float On N.Y. Stock Exchange
    King Digital Entertainment, the British developer of mobile phone puzzle game 'Candy Crush Saga', has filed for US initial public offering (IPO), in a bid to raise $500m for operational capital and acquisitions, which would value it over $5bn. King reported 7,000% rise in profits last year, with revenue and net profit reaching $1.88bn and $567.6m, compared to $164.4m and $7.8m respectively in 2012.
  • Opera Releasing Max App To Wider Audience
    Opera is getting ready to release its mobile data compression app Max to a wider audience: The browser maker opened up preregistration for a beta test of the Android app Tuesday, promising that the app will help users to get the most out of their data plan. Max does this by routing all data requests of a phone through Opera's servers, where it is compressed and then sent to the phone.
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