News Archive
14 April 2009
The Wall Street Journal
After repeated rounds of layoffs, managers must focus on retaining and motivating those who are left over. Even in a bad economy, experts say the most talented workers always have options; retaining those employees can be critical to keeping the business on track during rocky times.
Here are some dos and don'ts of retention.
Do give pats on the bac..
10 April 2009
The Racing Post
Brian Fleming
BETFAIR have signed a deal with RTE to sponsor their live racing coverage for the next 13 months. The new association with Ireland’s national broadcaster gets underway this Sunday with the Fairyhouse Powers Gold Cup meeting and will run to the 2010 Punchestown Festival.
In total some 38 meetings, including relayed coverage o..
The games industry employs a diverse range of people in a number of different roles. Over the next few months, BBC News is going to profile a range of jobs in the industry, as well as the firms themselves; talking to the people who actually do the work as they tell us what exactly they do. The current economic crisis knows no boundaries. ..
09 April 2009
Digital Spy
Sir Paul McCartney has become the latest celebrity to have his official website hacked.The site was infected with a computer virus that could have left users vulnerable to identity theft, according to The Daily Telegraph.It happened just moments before the ex-Beatle reunited with former bandmate Ringo Starr at a benefit concert."They obviously chos..
7Digital is to sell tracks via AOL’s Winamp application as part of its third download integration deal in three weeks.
The new partnership follows deals with Spotify and Songbird agreed last month.
MP3 downloads have been integrated into the Winamp player using 7Digital’s application programming interface (API) platform, so users can bu..
At last month's Gartner BI Summit in Washington, D.C., the first person I sat down to chat with was John Evans, Director of Product Marketing at Kalido, a Boston-area-based BI warehousing and MDM solutions company. Evans was kind enough to agree to do a live podcast with me, and so we did...only to discover afterward that my MP3 recorder didn't act..
04 April 2009
Drapers Online
Lingerie etailer Figleaves will launch women’s clothing next week, as it looks to evolve into a fully fledged lifestyle etailer.
The etailer has invested £1 million in the launch of its own-label womenswear brand, Figleaves Woman, which will sit alongside other womenswear brands including Hudson Jeans, American Vintage, Citizens of Huma..
01 April 2009
Press Release
NewBay LifeCache operator cloud services now storing over 4 billion pieces of user-generated content. NewBay, the leader in digital lifestyle solutions for operators, today announced that its award winning LifeCache product suite is storing over four billion pieces of user-generated content (UGC) online for subscribers worldwide. Petabytes of ..
31 March 2009
Multichannel
Openet -- after two years of "behind-the-scenes" work with two of the four biggest U.S. cable operators -- is launching software designed to let MSOs better measure consumers' TV viewing and voice and data usage.
Openet's roots are in analyzing transactional data for wireless carriers, including BT, Orange, AT&T and Verizon Wireless.
The Openet..
30 March 2009
Paid Content
On-demand music streaming app Spotify has now formally added one of the three music retail affiliates it told us about earlier this month. Listeners can right-click track names and pick "Buy From 7Digital.com", letting them purchase corresponding 320Kbps MP3s and some FLAC files from the six million track-strong service. Later, users will also get ..
30 March 2009
Reuters News
* 2008 sales rise 19 pct, turns to profit* No immediate IPO plans* Helped by smaller exposure to advertising downturn
HELSINKI, March 30 (Reuters) - Finnish Internet company Sulake swung to a profit in 2008, boosted by increasing usage of its teenagers' networking site Habbo Hotel.
Sulake's virtual world Habbo Hotel (http://www.habbo.com/) has arou..
25 March 2009
The Wall Street Journal
Yoox Group SpA, the online fashion retailer, has hired Goldman Sachs and Mediabanc to underwrite its initial public offering of stock, planned for December, the retailer's chief executive officer said Tuesday.
Federico Marchetti, who founded the Bologna, Italy, retailer in 2000, said the company's business model -- of serving as an e-commerce site ..
16 March 2009
The Independent
Zopa, the social lending website that cuts out banks, lent a record £2.5m in February and is piling on new members as the credit drought makes its service more attractive. The company, which brings lenders and borrowers together via the internet, said its business grew rapidly in the second half of last year as bank lending prices rocketed wh..
10 February 2009
Press Release
Staffordshire Rolls Out Programme with GreenRoad and Admiral; has Reduced Young Driver Risk by 58%.
GreenRoad today announced that it is working with insurance specialist Admiral to encourage young drivers to drive safely with the first ‘pay how you drive’ scheme in the industry. GreenRoad and Admiral are offering select UK councils an ..
04 February 2009
USA TODAY
TVtrip.com
What it offers: Hotel video tours What we like: TVtrip.com offers video tours — shot by professional videographers — of hotel exteriors, lobbies, guest rooms and more. Listings are accompanied by a minimum room rate for the next month, and are integrated with a search tool that launches a booking window. Hotels..
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