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2013 Predictions: Adfonic's Victor Malachard
Tweet If you have online access right now, do this: go to Google Trends, and type in mobile advertising. You’ll see a vaguely static line across the screen from 2004 through 2011. Then you’ll see a...
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Today's media stories from the papers
Our roundup of the day's media stories, including the latest on Piers Morgan and Miranda's success in the Christmas ratings If you are viewing this on the web and would prefer to get it as an email...
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Social media-related crime reports up 780% in four years
Police figures show there were 4,908 reports in which Facebook and Twitter were a factor, compared with 556 in 2008 Complaints to police about alleged crimes linked to the use of Facebook and Twitter...
View ArticleTwitter and Facebook criminal charges soar
South Wales -- COMPLAINTS of crimes involving Facebook and Twitter have soared, resulting in more than 650 people being charged in 2012. Less than 50 people were charged in 2008. Chief Constable Andy...
View ArticleVideo shows kidnapped Australian
Australian national Warren Rodwell, held hostage for more than year by Philippine Islamists, is shown alive in a video posted on social media. Reported by BBC News 3 days ago.
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Today's media stories from the papers
Our roundup of the day's media stories, including Jimmy Savile's links to Margaret Thatcher and the new anti-smoking campaign If you are viewing this on the web and would prefer to get it as an email...
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Sport in 2012: So epic it can only be summed up in a very long sentence
Reliving what Coe, Farah, Drogba, Pietersen, Armstrong and the rest gave us this year requires minimum punctuation So farewell then 2012. You were very exciting. In fact, at times, you contained an...
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After the Sheikhs: The Coming Collapse of the Gulf Monarchies by Christopher...
Saudis are encouraged to shop and pray, but not to think. By Ian Black It is almost 40 years since the publication of Fred Halliday's landmark book Arabia without Sultans. Now, in the wake of the Arab...
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£1.8bn 'snooper's charter' fails to get Treasury backing
Danny Alexander confirms business case behind Theresa May's plan to track web and phone use is being revised The home secretary, Theresa May, has failed to win the backing of the Treasury to fund her...
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'Snooper's charter' fails to get Treasury backing
Danny Alexander confirms business case behind Theresa May plan to track everybody's web and phone use is being revised The home secretary, Theresa May, has failed to win the backing of the Treasury to...
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Worst ideas of 2012: celebrities oversharing
Memo to Kim Kardashian: no one wants to hear your thoughts on the Middle East With the exception, perhaps, of gossip site tmz.com, it's hard to think of anything that has done more to destroy whatever...
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Worst ideas of 2012: the onesie
Not even Cheryl Cole looks good in a giant babygrow Fashion, as Coco said, does not happen in a vacuum but reflects the times in which we live. In other words: you can't blame fashion for the onesie....
View ArticlePolice fear for missing Market Rasen woman Marion Scott, 83
Lincolnshire -- Police are now gravely concerned for the welfare of 83-year-old Marion Scott who has gone missing from her Market Rasen home. Mrs Scott left her home in Acre Close at around 6.45pm on...
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New Year's Eve partygoers in rush for herbal hangover cure
Sales of milk thistle capsules are soaring as social media spreads the word Its supposed medicinal qualities have been in demand for two millennia. Used by the Romans to treat the victims of snakebites...
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Sweden thanks Abba for the music with an all-singing, all-dancing museum
Group members back new interactive project, donating costumes and 70s memorabilia. *Richard Orange* reports A boxy, four-storey structure of Scandinavian pine is rising out of the snow on Stockholm's...
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Angry? Me? How dare you! | Viv Groskop
Nowadays, outrage is our only mode of discourse. It is high time that we all calmed down You know it's been a bad year when you find yourself slumped in front of the television watching The 50 Funniest...
View ArticleFacing up to rising social media crime
The number of crooks using social networking sites to commit crimes has almost trebled since 2008. Reported by The Argus 2 days ago.
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2012 - Review of the Year
Tweet *Blippar was in the money early in 2011* As ever, we tried to keep this brief, and as ever, we failed miserably. Apologies, but 2012 was without a shadow of a doubt, the busiest, most exciting...
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Indian rapper's new year gig cancelled in wake of Delhi bus rape
Yo Yo Honey Singh, who is accused of encouraging violence towards women, had been due to appear at a Delhi party A New Year's Eve party featuring an appearance by India's best known rapper has been...
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The merge: how our work-life balance is changing
Technology is making it easier to juggle work and home – and it's blurring the gap between our public and private lives How she explained the background drone of the hairdryers is anyone's guess, but...
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