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Anglo to Keep De Beers Stake Long-term
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters UK) - Mining group Anglo American AAL said on Tuesday it plans to retain its 45 percent stake in De Beers, the world's top diamond producer, in the long term."That's what I am thinking today, yes," Anglo's chief executive, Cynthia Carroll, said in an interview with South Africa's...
Tags: Financial Accounting, Finance, anglo, oukbs, safrica, uk
News items 2009-10-27
T-Mobile UK Launches Ad-Funded Games
T-Mobile UK is becoming the first British operator to launch ad-funded games, pushing aside the concerns that operators have had of the model. The new service, T-Mobile Game Club, announced today, is available to its customers who subscribe to its internet service web'n'walk. Once they join the club, customers...
Tags: Advertisement, T-Mobile, T-Mobile UK, T-Mobile Game Club, Games, Personal Technology, Companies, Operators, Countries, Europe, UK, Entertainment, Mobile Gaming, Dianne See Morrison
External links 2008-12-02
Virgin Mobile Opening Up Mobile Portal
Virgin Mobile (NYSE: VM) in the UK is opening up its mobile portal to users from other networks, in a move that repositions the company from operator to media owner, reports NMA.co.uk. The portal, which is currently available only to subscribers, is being rebranded and will be available to...
Tags: Mobile, Virgin Mobile, Portals, Advertising & Promotion, Web Technology, Internet, Marketing, Companies, Operators, MVNO, Virgin, Countries, Europe, UK, Dianne See Morrison, Time Warner Inc.
External links 2008-12-04
Vodafone, Western Union Testing International Mobile Money Transfers
Vodafone is stepping up its mobile payments business. The global operator has partnered with The Western Union Company to pilot its cross border Mobile Money Transfer MMT service that lets customers send remittances between the UK and Kenya. Customers will be able to send money from Western Union locations...
Tags: Vodafone Group Plc., Phone, Mobile, Cell Phone, Money Transfer, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Companies, Operators, Vodafone, Countries, Europe, UK, Technologies, Payments, Dianne See Morrison
External links 2008-12-08
Industry Moves: David Ross Quits UK's Carphone Warehouse
David Ross, the co-founder of UK's largest mobile phone retailer Carphone Warehouse, has resigned from his post as deputy chairman after he failed to disclose he had pledged his shares in the company to secure personal loans, Reuters reports. Ross, who owns a 19 percent stake—or 136.4 million shares--in...
Tags: Companies, Countries, Dianne See Morrison, Europe, Industry Moves, Loan, Retail, Retail Company, U.K., UK
External links 2008-12-08
Mobile Content Bits: WeMix Rings Up Phonezoo; Skyfire Update; MySpaceID On Vodafone; Amobee; Skype
-- Ludacris's WeMix Partners With Phonezoo: Ludacris is launching WeMix a new user-generated music site with Phonezoo to give independent artists a way to create and distribute ringtones. WeMix is kicking off with a channel on Phonezoo that will include profiles of artists and ringtones. As a whole, WeMix...
Tags: Advertising & Promotion, Apple, Browsers, Companies, Countries, Entertainment, Europe, Google, Handhelds, Hardware, Marketing, Matt Kapko, Microsoft, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Mobile, Mobile, Mobile Adv & Mktg, Mobile Music, Music Labels, News Corp., Nokia, Nokia Corp., NYSE Euronext, Operating Systems, Qualcomm, RIM, Skype Technologies S.A., Social Media, Software, Technologies, UK, Vodafone Group Plc., WeMix Partners
External links 2008-12-09
Last.fm Gaining Mobile Momentum; Vodafone Latest To Add
Last.fm is quickly gaining traction in the mobile world, adding Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) today to recent launches on T-Mobile and 3. The telco is making the social music site's Audioscrobbler available to Nokia (NYSE: NOK) N95, N96, N78 and 6210 handsets, allowing the site to monitor tracks being played...
Tags: Vodafone Group Plc., Mobile, Last.fm, Advertising & Promotion, Video On Demand (VoD), Marketing, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Companies, Operators, Vodafone, Countries, Europe, UK, Entertainment, Mobile Music, Social Media, Robert Andrews, Nokia Corp.
External links 2008-12-17
Pension 2012: What Every UK Business Should Know
Why Act Now? Business leaders have more pressing concerns and may feel 2012 is still a way off. But acting ahead of the regulations gives you time to communicate the changes fully and make adjustments gradually. Reinsurance and risk expert Benfield, which operates...
Tags: Pension, Benefits, Payroll Solutions, Personal Finance, Human Resources, Pensions, UK, employment benefits, 2012, Watson Wyatt, Mercer, HR, Tesco, Benfield, By Sarah Coles, Sarah Coles
Articles 2009-07-01
UK: Where to Play
Recession or no recession, sometimes you just have to play a great course. These tracks will help you satisfy that craving, whether you're looking to impress a client, sponsor a memorable corporate outing, or just looking for a solitary round of "red-carpet" golf. by Tyler Kearn
Tags: Recession, Golf, Business, UK, Business of Golf, Business of Sports, Tyler Kearn
Image galleries 2009-08-03
James Murdoch In Edinburgh: 'Analogue Attitudes In A Digital Age'
Twenty years after his father Rupert Murdoch delivered the MacTaggart Lecture at the Edinburgh International Television Festival, chip-off-the-old-block James Murdoch took the stage tonight to lambaste the BBC, decry Ofcom and call for an end to what he calls the “creationist” approach to managing media—the end of “analogue attitudes...
Tags: Government, Vertical Industries, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Legal, Regulatory, Ofcom, Media & Publishing, TV, Companies, BBC, News Corp., Countries, Europe, UK, Staci D. Kramer
External links 2009-08-28
Austin Ventures & Dachis Buy Social Media Agency Headshift
Dachis Group, the rollup vehicle funded by Austin Ventures and founded by former CEO of Razorfish Jeff Dachis, has done its first buy: London-based social media agency Headshift. AV funded the new group to the tune of $50 million, to buy companies in the corporate social networking software and...
Tags: Social Media, Advertising, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Mergers & Acquisitions, Countries, Europe, UK, Rafat Ali
External links 2009-09-02
ClickZ & SearchEngineWatch Going To UK In Incisive Media Split, ALM To Be Rebranded as, Well, ALM
In the Incisive Media blowup and the subsequent split, reported first yesterday, some other interesting details have come out in a memo the North America CEO Bill Pollak sent out earlier this morning to U.S. employees, reprinted below. Among the changes: the U.S. arm will be rebranded as ALM,...
Tags: U.S., Brand, Incisive Media, Agreement, U.K., ClickZ, ALM, Real Estate, Branding, Financial Services, Business Operations, Marketing, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Mergers & Acquisitions, Countries, Europe, UK, Rafat Ali
External links 2009-09-04
Ogilvy Creates Mobile Ad App Only Under 20's Can Hear
Talk about youth targeted marketing. Fanta, the fruit-flavored soft drink brand owned by Coca-Cola, is launching a mobile application in the UK based on technology that only those under 20 can hear. The application, the Fanta Stealth Sound System, uses the same technology first used rather controversially in Britain...
Tags: Advertisement, Mobile, Ogilvy, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Countries, Europe, UK, Mobile Adv & Mktg, Dianne See Morrison
External links 2008-12-02
Virgin Media Takes Yahoo oneSearch For New Mobile Portal
OneSearch, one product Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) keeps highlighting despite through its own troubled times, has got another deal. The web-based version of the mobile search app will power search for Virgin Media's new mobile portal in the UK from December 8. OneSearch already this year inked similar partnerships with...
Tags: Mobile, Yahoo! Inc., Media, Mobile Search, T-Mobile, OneSearch, Portals, Search, Advertising & Promotion, Internet, Marketing, Companies, Yahoo, Countries, Europe, UK, Technologies, Robert Andrews, Google Inc.
External links 2008-12-01
Jonathan Austin: Lead with Purpose, and the Profits Will Come
Best Companies, which puts together the Sunday Times?s Best Companies to Work For listing, can clearly link employee engagement to exceptional profitability. But what does engagement mean in practical terms? Be clear about what everyone contributes, where you?re heading and how you'll get there, advises Best Companies managing director Jonathan...
Tags: Engagement, Best Practices, Best Companies, Employee, Sunday Times, UK, Jonathan Austin
Videos 2009-11-12
Glam Media Set For France Expansion In 2010, BRIC Nation Launches Planned
Women-focused content network Glam Media is on course to launch in France next year and has plans to open offices in more European markets and developing nations around the world after that. The US company, which organises content from 1,800 sites into its Glam.com flagship site, opened its UK...
Tags: France, Media, Glam, Gender And Diversity, Branding, Advertising & Promotion, Human Resources, Marketing, Advertising, Countries, Europe, UK, Italy, Australia & New Zealand, Asia, India, Patrick Smith
External links 2009-11-04
Superdry Owners Plan £400 Million Float
LONDON (Reuters UK) - Fashion retailer Supergroup, the company behind the Superdry brand, is planning a stock-market flotation in the first half of 2010, valuing the firm at 400 million pounds, according to the Sunday Times.The group, which has hired Seymour Pierce to advise on the listing, has reported like-for-like...
Tags: Sales Strategy, Branding, Retail, Sales Force Management, Sales, Marketing, oukbs, uk
News items 2009-11-15
Earnings: Carphone Confirms Split; iPhone/Dongles Drive Mobile; AOL UK Haemorrhaging
Carphone Warehouse profit dropped by 11 percent to £39 million ($58 million) between April and September but, in answer, the group on Tuesday confirmed plans to split itself in two - the Best Buy Europe electronics retailer, created when the US giant bought half of Carphone for $2.1 billion...
Tags: Best Buy Co. Inc., Phone, Financial, Mobile, America Online Inc., U.K., Earnings, TalkTalk, Sales Strategy, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Investment, Sales Force Management, Financial Accounting, Telecom & Utilities, Sales, Internet, Finance, Robert Andrews, Countries, Europe, UK, Money, Time Warner Inc.
External links 2008-11-18
BSkyB TV Comes To 3 UK, Data Tariff Required
BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) is adding its channel lineup to 3's mobile TV offering in the UK. The satcaster's channels were already available through services offered by Orange, T-Mobile, Vodafone and in O2's now-finished mobile TV trial since 2005. Now the News Corp (NYSE: NWS) unit is bringing the channels...
Tags: Mobile, Tariff, TV, British Sky Broadcasting Group Plc., Satcaster, Advertising & Promotion, Internet, Marketing, Robert Andrews, Companies, Operators, 3 UK, Countries, Europe, UK, Entertainment, Mobile Video, Mobile TV, BSkyB, British Sky Broadcasting Group, News Corp.
External links 2008-11-18
Mobile Web Replacing Wire Web: Report
When it comes to emerging markets, there's been a lot of talk of how the mobile web will be the dominant way that people access the internet. Now there's evidence from Opera Software (OSL: OPERA), the browser makers, who in its October "State of the Mobile Web" report, found...
Tags: Advertising & Promotion, Asia, Browsers, Channel Management, China, Countries, Dianne See Morrison, Europe, Google Inc., India, Indonesia, Marketing, Mobile, Mobile Web, Opera Software ASA, Technologies, UK, Web
External links 2008-11-20
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