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Crime Twitter the Apprentice

Sunday Round Up: The Apprentice, Realtime Worlds, Online crime

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By The Drum Team, Editorial

October 3, 2010 | 2 min read

A round-up of this morning's media and marketing news from the Sunday Newspapers.

Crime gangs are increasingly turning to online to maximise their earnings, says a report by The Telegraph. The chief of the Metropolitan Police, Sir Paul Stephenson has said that gangs are hiring digital experts in order to make more money online.

A website which delivers information for youngster on how to kill themselves has been discovered by The Sunday Mirror. A reporter for the paper has found an unpoliced forum for children as young as 12 delivering advice on how they can commit suicide.

Scotland on Sunday reports that Dundee video games company RealTime Worlds collapsed with almost £50m worth of debts. The company owed its US owned parent company RealTime Worlds Inc £48.8m when it went into administration.

Meanwhile, The Sunday Herald reports that staff from Realtime Worlds have yet to receive their redundancy pay from the firm.

The Sunday Herald also reports that a campaign to protect the arts from the public sector spending cuts has received a poor response from the Scottish. The story says that the ‘I Value the Arts’ campaign has received a poor response from Scottish companies.

The new series of The Apprentice begins this week, with the News of the World already positioning former dustman and mail sorter, Dan Harris as the programme’s bully.

Social networking sites and blogs are helping young designers build their profiles, says a piece in The Telegraph. The use of blogs and sites such as Twitter have helped build the profile of young celebrities such as Cecilia Cassini and Pedro Lourenco.

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