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- Advertising firm to reinvent itself as energy businessThu, May 24, 2012Advertising company Captive Audience Display Solutions (Cads) is poised to reinvent itself as a renewable energy business after shareholders approved a merger with a UK-registered firm yesterday.
- Sky's the target of new UPC service
Thu, May 24, 2012THE INVITATIONS are in the post. UPC has this week sent information on its new on-demand television service to 200,000 customers, inviting them to sit back on their sofas with a bowl of popcorn, press the “on demand” button on their remote controls and not emerge from their living rooms until winter. - Demise of analogue creates a problem for digital 'black spots'Thu, May 24, 2012“D-DAY” FOR analogue television services is now five months away and TDs representing areas in west Cork cursed with digital terrestrial television “black spots” are taking up the cause of constituents facing either a snowy screen or the €300 purchase of a satellite dish.
- Just who in the media world 'gets' digital?Thu, May 24, 2012 MEDIA & MARKETING: SOME DAY there will be a McCarthyite tribunal into whether or not media people “get” digital. You hear it a lot, these whispers, albeit usually on digital forums: “He/She/Company X does a lot of amazing stuff, but I’m just not sure if they really get digital.”
- 'T'weetour' to trap more visitors from Mice sector
Thu, May 24, 2012BUSINESS TOURISTS from Britain – or more specifically the “meetings, incentives, conferences and events” sector (Mice) – are the focus of Tourism Ireland’s latest Twitter marketing venture, which it is calling a “t’weetour”. - Wilson Hartnell puts best foot forward in SockiesThu, May 24, 2012WILSON HARTNELL PR, part of the Ogilvy Ireland group, has been crowned agency of the year at the Bord Gáis Energy Social Media Awards – aka the Sockies.
- Shareholders sue over Facebook IPOWed, May 23, 2012Facebook and banks including Morgan Stanley are being sued by the social networking leader's shareholders, who claimed the defendants hid Facebook's weakened growth forecasts ahead of its $16 billion initial public offering.
- Music firms' challenge over 'three strikes' deal beginsWed, May 23, 2012A CHALLENGE by four music companies to a notice of the Data Protection Commissioner which they fear will effectively unwind their “three strikes and you’re out” agreement with Eircom aimed at combating the widespread illegal downloading of music has opened before the Commercial Court.
- RTÉ digital plan aims to raise pay-per-view revenueTue, May 22, 2012RTÉ outlines its plan to increase the pace of digital innovation, pursue new avenues of commercial revenue and open online archives to users as it formally launched RTÉ Digital yesterday, the division that replaces RTÉ Publishing.
- Spectacular TV HQ completed
Tue, May 22, 2012 ASIA BRIEFING: CONSTRUCTION work on the multimillion euro headquarters of China’s state broadcaster Chinese Central Television (CCTV) has finally been completed, and engineers and architects had a final walk through the striking building last week before handing over to its owners. - Alibaba in talks over Yahoo stakeMon, May 21, 2012Chinese internet firm Alibaba Group is in talks with existing shareholders, including Singapore state investor Temasek Holdings, to raise about $2.3 billion in equity to partly finance its deal with Yahoo, two sources said.
- Revenue falls 3.5% at INM since start of yearSat, May 19, 2012INDEPENDENT NEWS Media’s revenues in the 19 weeks to May 11th fell by 3.5 per cent year on year in constant currency terms or 5.2 per cent in euro terms, according to an interim management statement issued yesterday.
- Revenue trends slip at INMFri, May 18, 2012Revenue at Independent News and Media to date is trailing 2011 trends, the group said today, with both advertising and circulation revenue falling year on year.
- Facebook shares valued at $104bnFri, May 18, 2012Facebook made its Wall Street debut at 3pm Irish today, as the world's number one online social network raised about $16 billion in one of the biggest initial public offerings in US history.
- Warren Buffett invests in newspapersFri, May 18, 2012Warren Buffett is spending $142 million (€111.7 million) on 63 US newspapers, six months after Berkshire Hathaway spent $200 million on the group that publishes the Omaha World Herald, his local newspaper.
- A glimpse behind the curtain at INMFri, May 18, 2012DOCUMENTS SUPPLIED to the High Court last week as part of Karl Brophy’s legal action relating to his dismissal from Independent News Media as director of corporate affairs and content development provide interesting background to his appointment.
- There's more to a doodle when working for Google
Fri, May 18, 2012 WILD GEESE: Lorraine Twohill Vice-president of global marketing, Google, Palo Alto, California - Pinterest raises $100m in funding roundThu, May 17, 2012Japan-based online retailing giant Rakuten is leading the latest $100 million round of funding in US social networking site Pinterest, saying today it expects the site to help it expand at home and in its 17 overseas markets.
- UTV predicts Olympic boostThu, May 17, 2012Revenue at UTV Media’s Irish radio division turned positive in the first fourth months of the year, but foreign exchange movements had a negative impact on figures, the group said today.
- The scary question is why would robots want to be journalists?Thu, May 17, 2012Every newsroom has someone whose unremittingly joy-free outlook on life has made them a soundalike for Marvin the Paranoid Android, writes LAURA SLATTERY
