Facebook has appointed Weve’s media director Claire Valoti to a senior UK role working alongside UK sales manager Ed Couchman, as part of a series of senior management changes at the social network.
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International - 11/06/2013
BT has selected AD2ONE and Google to supply the digital advertising sales and adserving technology and programmatic trading for the new look BT.com and BTSport.com launches this summer.
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Footballers Jamie Carragher, Steven Gerrard, Jordan Henderson, Gary McAllister and Lee Dixon are just some of the names investing in We R Interactive’s I AM PLAYR online football game.
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Razorfish has appointed Rosie Kurton as business development director tasked with managing new client opportunities and developing best pitch practice.
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Former director general of the BBC Lord Michael Grade is one of the names confirmed to speak at The Drum Live, where The Drum will create an edition of the magazine involving the audience.
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Irish gardaí police are investigating an apparent death threat made against Taoiseach Enda Kenny on a Facebook page aiming to save a hospital from closure.
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Republic of Ireland - 11/06/2013
The world’s largest air show, The Royal International Air Tattoo has appointed Nottingham-based agency The Media Group to produce this year’s official air show DVD.
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Clear Channel Outdoor is kicking off a Twitter-led campaign at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity to spark debate around realising creative potential.
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International - 11/06/2013
BMW has announced that it will roll out Apple’s Siri and Samsung’s S Voice services to its hands free ConnectedDrive technology in all its 2014 models.
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International - 11/06/2013
Tired of waiting, Sprint Nextel’s board has effectively rejected Dish Network’s $25.5 billion buyout offer for the company . Instead, it is likely to sell to a Japanese bank which has upped its bid for the American wireless carrier by $1.5... Read more
United States - 11/06/2013
Revelations around the closeness of nine of America’s top tech firms to the US government have stoked fears in Silicon Valley that America could lose its crown as the pre-eminent centre of the global technology industry.
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UK viewers favour interactive pre-roll video ads “twice as much” as their global counterparts, according to a study from Exponential Interactive.
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International - 11/06/2013
In the build-up to this year's Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, which kicks off... Read more
International - 11/06/2013
The Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB)’s affiliate marketing council is tightening its regulation of vouchers with the launch of revised Voucher Code of Conduct guidelines.
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As the PRISM furore spreads across the world, Australian Senator Nick Xenophon said: ''These problems on metadata could turn into a mega problem for our democracy.''
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Guardian Australia columnist Daniel Ellsberg, the former US military analyst who in 1971 leaked the Pentagon Papers which revealed how the US public had been misled about the Vietnam war, has likened the USA to the Stasi secret police in East... Read more
International - 10/06/2013
A new government policy that requires some news websites to obtain licenses and possibly to remove offensive content has led to public protests in Mong Lim Park, Singapore amidst claims that the new laws amount to censorship.
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Havas AdWork has opened a platform for its partner specialist agency, Havas Worldwide Siren in South Jakarta.
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