• Half Say They're Incapable Of Online Brand Interaction
    A new report has revealed that consumers feel incapable of interacting with their favourite brands online. The study, between YouGov and the newly launched .wiki domain surveyed 2,455 UK adults and further found that 15% of UK consumers desired to collaborate on the future technologies that their favourite brands offer. John Lewis was voted by respondents as the most collaborative brand online, followed by Google, Apple and Marks & Spencer.
  • Future Unveils Granny Square A Week App
    Available now on Apple's Newsstand, Granny Square a Week, has been developed for iPhone and iPad. It is the perfect on-the-go crochet companion for keen crocheters and beginners alike, say the publishers. Simply Crochet was launched in January 2013 and has already seen huge success, catering for the growing demand for crochet content - crochet is a craft on the rise.
  • 'Look Up' Is Top Viral Video Of The Week
    We start this week with a stonker of a video that has had nearly 30m views.Look Up's gentle love story might aim to persuade you to stop concentrating on your mobile phone, but it has taken the online world by storm and has been shared widely across social media. Sharing opinions - or trading insults - is the theme of our second clip, which shows The Walking Dead's Rick Grimes going head to head with Breaking Bad's Walter White for an epic rap battle.
  • Guardian Comment Moderators See Pro-Russia Bent
    The Guardian's comment section moderators believe there is an "orchestrated campaign" by Russian pro-Kremlin trolls to swamp the online debate about events concerning Ukraine. In a blog post, readers' editor Chris Elliott outlined suspicions from both readers and Guardian reporters that the comments section was the target of a deliberate campaign to attack any sentiment that did not fit the Russian narrative.
  • Netflix Raises Subscription Rates For New Users
    Netflix has announced a GBP1 increase to its monthly subscription rates for British customers, following reports of GBP31m profits in the first quarter of this year. Rate increases were effected in Ireland during January, raising monthly prices from EUR6.99 to EUR7.99, a move that was received without much complaint from the Irish.
  • Is Murdoch Moving To Consolidate Sky?
    Reports this weekend that Rupert Murdoch's 21st Century Fox wants to consolidate its pay-TV European holdings by combining the company's stake in British Sky Broadcasting Group Plc with its Sky Deutschland and Sky Italia assets would fit with the company's long-held view the Sky's would be strong together. Bloomberg reported on Friday that Fox was in talks for such a deal, worth about 10 billion euros ($13.76 billion), that would turn BSkyB into a European satellite-TV giant.
  • See Who Won British Media Awards
    The awards ceremony was held at The Brewery, London. The winners at the jump.
  • More Than 1 In Three Don't See Adwords As Ads
    Despite prominent yellow indicators, recent research has found that 36% of people tested still do not realise that Google Adwords are ads, with a quarter unaware Google hosted advertising whatsoever. Previous research from Bunnyfoot found that 81% of users clicked on PPC ads rather than organic results - perhaps lured like a moth to a lamp by the yellow advertising sticker.
  • Global Cooperation Could Make Internet Safer
    In a perfect world, the internet would be a secure place to conduct personal and business affairs. Of course, as we know ever more painfully, it is not. There are many reasons for that, from the mundane to the existential. Here are a few principles that would be inherent to the perfect internet and that could, with foresight and international cooperation, help brighten the future of our own imperfect version.
  • BBC Slammed Over 'Slick PR' Move
    The BBC has been accused of putting "slick PR" ahead of serving licence fee payers after it emerged that it lists more than 200 press officers on its website. A new list of contacts on the BBC's media centre website names 220 people who work in press and publicity for the corporation as well as four external companies which manage PR.
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