26 February 2018
An artificial intelligence (AI) versus legal profession contract challenge by LawGeex sees lawyers bested by technologyA study by AI contract review platform LawGeex claims artificial intelligence (AI) can out-perform how experienced lawyers review non-disclosure agreements (NDA). Its AI Vs. Lawyers: The Ultimate Showdown AI Vs. Lawyers The Ulti...
11 February 2018
Facebook announces a global initiative, the Facebook Community Leadership Program investing in people who build communities. The social platform revealed new services and tools at the Facebook Communities Summit (FCS) Europe, a gathering of over 300 community leaders from across Europe seeking support and technology to empower their communities....
13 August 2016
YouTube FanFest Toronoto: Superstar content creator event approachesToronto is the destination for the biggest content creators and influencer event, YouTube FanFest Canada. A-list home grown content creators return to Toronto for the YouTube FanFest Canada event today.International and local Canadian talent is set to deliver a line-up
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15 May 2016
Is your agency living up on what they signed off on? Are they excelling or dropping the ball?Fill in a short Agency Fortunes questionnaire by the Festival of Media Global, share international agency / brand knowledge and be in the chance to win a great prize.There are varying levels of services agencies deliver for brands worldwide, but we rarel...
19 February 2016
Who should return to the FOMG stage in Rome?Festival of Media Global (FOMG) celebrates its 10th anniversary from 18-20 May 2016. To highlight its milestone, FOMG is asking marketing and media professionals to vote who they?d like to return as their keynote speaker.Firmly placing the reigns in the hands of the festival audience, attendees and tho...
10 August 2015
Selfies from space: Space agency NASA taps Tumblr to share missionNASA creates first two official Tumblr profiles for documenting mission training, preparation and space exploration.Astronaut Peggy Whitson to provide Tumblr behind-the-scenes of the journey at her Tumblr account. Additional space exploration experiences and will be available at t...
16 April 2014
Freelancer.com buys marketing community Warrior Forum Freelancing and crowdsourcing resource Freelancer.com grows network with acquisition of Warrior ForumCrowdsourcing and freelancing resource Freelancer.com has set designs on growing its global network further with its recent acquisition of Warrior Forum. Founded in 1997 by Allen Says, Warrior...
07 January 2014
Forbes.com creates publishing social network 'Stream'Forbes creates visual ?Stream? social network using mobile publishing start-up MAZ for iOS updateA new iOS release from Forbes includes a visual social network called ?Stream? allowing users to read, save and share content from its magazine.Stream consists of redesigned issues, starting with F...
02 December 2013
Search engine Bing reveals top internet 2013 web searchesBeyonce, Iron Man 3 and Tim Tebow lead top US 2013 Bing searchesMicrosoft Corporation?s search engine Bing unveils its top search terms for 2013 using its global search data.Bing?s search trends unveiled in its year in review tunes into what has captivated imagination using search data fro...
29 November 2013
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The Evolution of Social Media (2008-2013) infographicHootsuite celebrates its 5th birthday
along with Thanksgiving theme for #Thanksfor5Hootsuite celebrates five big ones and Thanksgiving reviewing its five years in the social media game. Its The Evolution of Social Media (2008-2013) infographic bravely takes on five years of milestones ...
20 November 2013
An estimated 4 million negative daily opinions are exchanged about one of the big six energy brandsThe UK?s top six utility companies receive masses of social media negativity Keller Fay Group research unveils.Data from Keller Fay's TalkTrack research programme claims Britain?s biggest energy companies are receiving huge levels of word of mouth ...
28 October 2013
Revenues grow year-on-year for social networksRevenue per visitor (RPV) grows year-on-year (YoY) for Pinterest and Twitter with Facebook dominating retail referralsPinterest and Twitter have experienced the largest year-over-year (YoY) jump in revenue per visitor (RPV) according to the Adobe Social Media Intelligence report.The report shows a gr...
18 October 2013
NewsCred to create freelance journalist network to service brandsContent marketing resource NewsCred to create network for freelance journalistsContent marketing and syndication company NewsCred has created a freelance journalist community called the NewsRoom to service brands.Currently building its community, the NewsRoom is striving to create ...
25 September 2013
Pinterest to roll-out article pins for media sites and publishersPinterest entice publishers to create news and media boards with article pins Pinterest is to create news driven boards in the form of article pins for media sites and publishers. The site claims more than 5 million articles are pinned every day will start introducing the new...
22 September 2013
Opening up BBM messenger gets off to shaky start for BlackBerryBlackBerry hits pause on BBM messenger roll-out amidst an anticipated $1 billion loss and job cuts BlackBerry is pausing the release of its BBM instant messenger for Android and iOS during launch as it experiences technical difficulties. The additional challenges comes to the Canadia...
20 September 2013
Pinboard and photo-sharing service Pinterest to reveal promoted pins adsEvents, interests and hobby pinning site Pinterest to experiment with advertising and promoted content modelsPinterest, the socially driven pinboard is to begin testing promoted pins in search results and category feeds as it seeks create advertising revenue.In a blog post a...
02 September 2013
Digital life after BT closes down its dial-up internet serviceBT,
the telecoms company retired its dial-up internet service last weekend
(Sunday, 01 September) citing a lack of usage from its UK customers.Dial-up
or narrowband, is a technology using aspects of the public switched
telephone network (PSTN) that can be used to establish acc...
17 August 2013
Ecommerce platform Virtual Piggy integrates online payments into teenage social network Habbo HotelOnline payments integrated into teenage social network Habbo Hotel with Virtual PiggyEcommerce platform company Virtual Piggy has been accepted for safer youth payments across Sulake owned teen community and social network Habbo Hotel. Based in Her...
17 July 2013
#askNASA about fitness and space on NASA?s Google+ page with astronaut Mike Hopkins, US athletes and sportspeople Learn more about health on Earth and up in the stars with a NASA astronaut and US sportspeople later todayNASA astronaut Mike Hopkins (Michael S. Hopkins (Colonel, USAF)) will discuss health, fitness and astronaut training with Ameri...
02 July 2013
Precise enters social media monitoring space releasing Media Platform+Precise takes on competitive social reporting arena with Media Platform+ combining broadcast, print and social media monitoringMedia and news monitoring company Precise has released a new service called Media Platform+. Taking on a fiercely competitive market, it r...
21 June 2013
Facebook?s Instagram adds video and additional filter functionalityInstagram takes on Twitter?s Vine bringing 15 seconds of video capability to its community-driven photo-sharing social network Community-driven photo-sharing service Instagram has added video to its functionality. It now faces off with Twitter?s Vine and others as the race for so...
04 June 2013
Salesforce.com snaps up digital marketing service ExactTarget for $2.5 billionCRM software company salesforce.com agrees to acquire digital marketing SaaS ExactTarget for $2.5 billion Customer relationship management (CRM) platform salesforce.com has announced its acquisition of cloud-based digital marketing service ExactTarget for $2.5 billion....
07 May 2013
ISP Baidu creates largest Chinese video platform with $370 million acquisition of PPSChinese ISP Baidu creates China?s biggest internet video provider with acquisition of PPS for $370 million and merging it with its own service iQiyiChinese internet service provider (ISP) Baidu?s acquisition of internet video PPS for $370 million has created the...
12 April 2013
Federation of Small Businesses runs social media campaign to highlight impact of parking on London's high streetThe Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) has today announced a new tool it hopes will tackle what it describes as a ?burning political issue? of parking in London.The Parking Crowdmap aims to demonstrate how parking availability, or la...
09 April 2013
The British Library to archive a 100 terabytes of data annually to capture the webThe British Library five other libraries will archive 100 terabytes of data annually including UK webpages in a preservative initiative called ?Capturing the Digital Universe?The British Library has started to archive UK webpages in an effort to record digital cont...