With Google and Facebook gobbling up marketing budgets, it’s worth noting where the social networking giant is going and the burning issues for decision makers looking to leverage the platform. Facebook’s fourth quarter results were strong across the board with engagement surging and a lot of executive chatter about video. Here are the key takeaways to note. Video. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said video on the network […]
The Cohort is Poynter’s bi-monthly newsletter about women kicking ass in digital media. Earlier this week, I wrote a piece about whether journalists should participate in political demonstrations and online conversations. While the guidance has always been fairly straightforward (simply put: no), the events of the past few weeks and number of political protests have reignited the debate in newsrooms. More often than not, the answer is […]
Chocolate industry executives breathed a collective sigh of relief earlier this year after the impact of the bankruptcy of a key cocoa industry player at the end of 2016 remained muted as a result of a weak cocoa market. Expectations of bumper supplies from west Africa, the leading regional producer of cocoa beans, have been weighing on bean prices of the key chocolate ingredient. This has helped […]
Grab has announced plans to invest US$700 million in Indonesia over the next four years, as part of efforts to increase its footprint in a market where it has seen growth. The Southeast Asian ride-sharing operator said Thursday the new investment would support the Indonesian government’s ambition of becoming the region’s largest digital economy by 2020. It would include plans to set up a research and development […]
TOKYO Sony Corp on Thursday cut its full-year outlook for operating profit on Thursday after the Japanese TV-to-gaming group took a $1 billion writedown on its struggling movie business. Sony forecast group operating profit of 240 billion yen ($2.13 billion) for the year ending in March, down from a previous estimate of 270 billion yen. It also said October-December operating profit fell to 92.4 billion yen from […]
This worldview borrows from the “clash of civilizations” thesis of the political scientist Samuel P. Huntington, and combines straightforward warnings about extremist violence with broad-brush critiques of Islam. It sometimes conflates terrorist groups like Al Qaeda and the Islamic State with largely nonviolent groups such as the Muslim Brotherhood and its offshoots and, at times, with the 1.7 billion Muslims around the world. In its more extreme […]
Image: Rick Rycroft/AP/REX/Shutterstock/@JohnJohnsonson By Ariel Bogle2017-02-02 06:27:02 UTC Telstra probably hoped the hashtag #TelstraOutage would be left behind in 2016. Sorry honey, no such luck. On Thursday afternoon, Australia’s largest phone network went down for some users following a fire at a Chatswood exchange, which impacted mobile and fixed services. While the outage was genuinely disruptive, many could not resist making the joke of the day. And […]
Telstra has said that as a result of a fire at its Chatswood exchange, it is possible that customers’ SMS messages have been delivered to people other than the intended recipients. “As a result of the Chatswood exchange fire today, it’s possible some SMS messages have been incorrectly delivered,” a Telstra spokesperson said. “As mentioned previously, customers won’t be receiving SMS messages in the short term while […]
Lufthansa believes the rapid growth phase of Gulf airlines is coming to end, which could help to ease some of the pressure in a highly competitive industry, its chief executive said on Wednesday. Speaking after signing catering and maintenance deals with Abu Dhabi-based Etihad, Lufthansa CEO Carsten Spohr said there were signs Gulf rivals were reaching the limits of their recent growth. “I’ll leave that to the […]
AT&T announced on Wednesday that it’s rolling out so-called 5G “evolution markets” in Austin and Indianapolis this summer, as part of a broader push to upgrade its networks. This showcase markets will start out with theoretical peak speeds of 400Mbps. That’s five times faster than what AT&T currently offers in terms of wireless connectivity, AT&T CTO Andre Fuetsch noted at an event in San Francisco on Wednesday. […]
newslide Polish fans buy Tom Hanks iconic ‘toddler’ car Residents of a city in southern Poland have bought American Oscar-winning actor Tom Hanks an iconic communist era “toddler” car after he shared a photograph of himself with the automobile on social media last year. It all started with a picture of Tom Hanks and the words which the actor posted on Twitter: “I got a new car! […]
Significant Engagement Gaps Found in Key Areas, Including Mentorship, Appreciation, and Cooperation with Colleagues 01 February 2017 Dubai — Many companies in the region are engaging women in senior leadership positions as a key priority, particularly following the revelation that, on a global level, companies are failing their senior-level women. Roughly three-quarters of those surveyed generated lower levels of employee engagement among female senior managers than among […]
Starting Tuesday, Comcast will allow its customers to use Roku as a secondary cable box. Those who have a Roku — one of the best streaming devices around — released in the last couple of years or a Roku TV can install the Xfinity TV app and try the feature out before it heads for a wide rollout later in 2017. Xfinity TV For Roku The news comes nearly […]
By Eli Berlzon | AMONA, West Bank AMONA, West Bank Israeli police moved into an outpost in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday to remove settlers who Israel’s Supreme Court ruled have been living illegally on privately owned Palestinian land. Settlers and dozens of pro-settlement activists who flocked to the Amona outpost to protest against the evacuation burned tyres and piled makeshift barricades at its entrance. But […]
BERLIN More than 1,100 German police searched 54 homes, business premises and mosques in Frankfurt and other towns in the western state of Hesse in the early hours of Wednesday and arrested a Tunisian man suspected of planning an attack, German authorities said. The 36-year-old Tunisian is suspected of recruiting for Islamic State in Germany since August 2015 and building up a network of supporters with the […]
The company rolling out the Australian government’s National Broadband Network (NBN) has revealed the fibre-serving areas that will likely receive fibre-to-the-distribution-point (FttDP) or fibre-to-the-curb network technology in replacement of the unusable Optus hybrid fibre-coaxial (HFC) network. In response to a Senate Estimates question on notice, NBN CEO Bill Morrow said the areas within the former Optus HFC footprint would “likely see the fibre-to-the-curb technology”. A breakdown of […]
Uber’s self-driving car ambition just got another boost after it signed on the German automaker Daimler in an initiative to develop automated vehicles for its ride-hailing network. Looking at the announcement, however, one is left wondering if the partnership could really lead Uber to build a driverless car on its own. Uber’s Role Uber CEO Travis Kalanick stated that, here, Uber is not going to be involved […]
01 February 2017 Abu Dhabi – The Integrated Transport Center (ITC) in Abu Dhabi announced that it has installed 30 Variable Message Signs (VMS) out of 41. The project that cost AED 70 million includes the installation of other field boards and devices, central control system and will cover operations and maintenance for 3 years. Eng. Salah Al Marzouqi, Integrated Intelligent Transport Systems Division (IITS) Director, said […]
On Saturday, as ripples of President Trump’s refugee ban began making news, Los Angeles Times Business Editor Kimi Yoshino suggested a different way to cover the story. Yoshino, who is married to an Iraqi refugee and whose family was detained at internment camps in World War II, saw people sharing their own stories on social media. Her idea: Let’s do something that captures that emotion. On Saturday, […]
“I remember, when I was a youngster, we used to have to translate Erasmus. He was already travelling as a scholar 500 years ago.” Sir Eric Thomas, the retired vice-chancellor of the University of Bristol, is reminiscing about his Latin A-level classes, in which the journals of the 15th-century Dutch Renaissance scholar featured prominently. “Even all that time ago, the concept of there being an international community […]
Emirates Integrated Telecommunications Co (EITC), the holding company for UAE phone service provider du, will launch Virgin Mobile as a new brand in the country, EITC’s chief executive Osman Sultan said on Tuesday. EITC will have full ownership, management and operation of the Virgin Mobile brand in the country, Sultan told a news conference, adding that services under the brand would start “within weeks” and focus on […]
BD 1.2 million (US$3.2 million) net profit for the three months ending 31 December, 2016 BD 4.3 million 2016 profit as customer base nears one million milestone BD 1.2 million (US$3.2 million) net profit for the three months ending 31 December, 2016 Manama – 31 January, 2016 Zain Bahrain (Ticker: ZAINBH), a telecom innovator focused on enhancing customer experience, reported a 22% surge in its customer […]
London, UK based SaaS platform GRABR has launched BLINK, a secure mobile content distribution platform for brands, broadcast media, music labels, event organisers, news outlets and public services. The software as a service (SaaS) platform, launched in 2016, allows brands to create their own social networks and build communities to engage directly with consumers. BLINK is a suite of marketing tools that enables brands to securely distribute […]
By Liana B. Baker and Jessica DiNapoli U.S. brand management company Iconix Brand Group Inc (ICON.O) is exploring a sale of its majority stake in Peanuts Worldwide LLC, which owns the rights to cartoon strip characters Snoopy and Charlie Brown, according to people familiar with the matter. The move sent shares of Iconix up more than 5 percent. It comes three months after U.S. insurance company MetLife […]
