The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has announced that Australians lost $93 million to scammers in 2012, revealing a 65% increase in reports of online shopping scams.
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Melbourne marketing agency The Taboo Group have designed a campaign for Consumer Affairs Victoria aiming to teach Victorians how to avoid online scams.
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South Australia’s state Premier Jay Weatherill's twitter feed has been blocked from his own department's website following complaints that public servants are being "bombarded with party political propaganda" from it.
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Saks Fifth Avenue has rolled out a new campaign, aimed at cementing the retailer’s reputation as “a place of discovery”.
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United States - 18/06/2013
Yahoo is considering a $50m bid for Qwiki, a New York startup that recently made an Apple app allowing users to automatically turn photos, music and videos into short movies.
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United States - 18/06/2013
AT&T and Brooklyn’s design firm Pensa have launched a new initiative on Manhattan’s streets - Street Charge, a solar-based unit that can charge cellphones.
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United States - 18/06/2013
Doug Kass, a Wall Street veteran who became go-to source for market news on Twitter, has quit the site, blaming online ‘haters’.
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United States - 18/06/2013
A 2009 Kellogg’s ad claimed that its Frosted Mini-Wheats improved children’s “attentiveness, memory and other cognitive functions by 20 per cent”.
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United States - 18/06/2013
US microblogging service Muzy has been backed by WPP Ventures, the investment arm of WPP Digital.
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United States - 18/06/2013
An Angelina Jolie stunt double has launched the United States' first phone hacking court case against News Corporation, with Eunice Huthart claiming her phone messages were hacked by the News of the World.
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United States - 18/06/2013
Cadbury has created a picnic bench made from 400 Cadbury Picnic bars and 60kg of Cadbury Dairy Milk.
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This lovely little ad spoofs an iconic scene from the movie Jaws which has Robert Shaw and Richard Dreyfus comparing scars as they boast of their scrapes with sharks. Their one-upmanship is reproduced by a pair of young boys trying to outdo each... Read more
Today's jobs round-up brings roles for client partners, publications coordinators, design directors, commercialisation managers and social media specialists.
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Today at the Cannes Lion Awards 2013, Astro Teller, Captain of Moonshots Google took to the stage for the seminar – Taking Moonshots, Telling Stories - The focus of the presentation was on using creativity to bring impossible ideas like self... Read more
The Exchange Lab has announced the appointment of Fay Miller to the newly created position of marketing director.
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The Oculus Rift virtual reality headset, a device which provides a stereoscopic 3D gaming experience with a huge field of view, is one step closer to an official launch due to a venture capital funding providing $16m in investments.
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Rory Kinnear is the top public choice on social media to play the new Dr Who, research from Crimson Hexagon has found, with a third of those discussing actors choosing him.
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People must beware the dangers of hyper-connectivity and ensure they disconnect from our always-on world to guarantee sustained creativity, according to Huffington Post’s editor-in-chief Arianna Huffington.
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International - 18/06/2013
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