Social media platform Hootsuite has announced its recent acquisition of BrightKit, a solutions-based company that delivers customised social marketing campaigns to its clients. Rather than keep the original brand as it is, Hootsuite are incorporating it under their own umbrella and are calling the service Hootsuite Campaigns.
Controversial whistle-blower Edward Snowdon is now available to purchase in 12-inch action figure style. The American ex-National Security Agency employee whose whistle-blowing on the organisation last year means he has fled to Russia, is being sold as a doll in order to raise funds for the Freedom of the Press Association. They are an American-based …
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17-year-old Londoner, Nick D’Aloisio sold his Summly app to Yahoo last year for $30 million and announced last week that he is currently working on their new Yahoo News Digest. Speaking at the Consumer Electronic Show on January 7, D’Aloisio was the spokesperson to announce the news app, revealing he had been working on the …
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Controversy abounded when High Pay Centre reported on the vast pay inequality on the day dubbed ‘Fat Cat Wednesday’. Referring to the first Wednesday in the first week of January this day represents the time when top business executives will have earned more than the average UK worker earns in one year. The information came …
This week it was revealed that the Oxford English Dictionary’s word of the year is ‘selfie’, so chosen upon because of the meteoric rise in its usage this year. The reason for this can almost certainly be put down to social media, a key element of which is posting and sharing photographs with others – …
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