The Guardian:
Customers of Harlequin Property express anxiety about delayed holiday home developments on Barbados, St Vincent, St Lucia and Dominican Republic, says Graham NorwoodBuyers of Caribbean holiday homes from a British developer fear their flats and villas will never be built and that they may lose tens of thousands of pounds.Ha (Read More)
The Guardian:
Once he joins, Marc Bolland's to-do list will have a familiar theme – find trendier clothes and younger customersYou would think that the soundtrack to the Sir Stuart Rose years at Marks & Spencer would be something by Frank Sinatra. After all, the record shows he took the blows and did it his way.But M&S's charismatic boss (Read More)
New York Times:
A group of start-up marketers see value in getting regular people to send a sentence or two of text to their friends and admirers.
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L.A. Times - Movie News:
USC professor Henry Jenkins coined the term to explain how an array of platforms can be used to enrich media's impact on the public.
Can a bench tell a story?
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guardian.co.uk Sport:
Jonny Wilkinson's return serves as a reminder that he is not the man to guide England on his ownNovember is more often devoted to the funereal rather than the celebratory. The playing surfaces are treacherous and a load of players are crocked even before they start sliding around on international duty.During these short day (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
In this edition of the Weekly Wrapup - our newsletter summarizing the top stories of the week - we report on President Obama's (non)-use of Twitter, take a look at the past decade in the media industry, review the latest statistics about blogging, question if Oxford Dictionary should've chosen "unfriend" as its word of the (Read More)
The Guardian:
News Corp site settles row with Merlin agency whose clients include Arctic Monkeys, Radiohead and Vampire WeekendMySpace has settled a year-long row with independent record companies with a landmark deal that will allow artists including Arctic Monkeys, Radiohead and Vampire Weekend to sell tracks on the social networking s (Read More)
Gizmodo:
Wired writer Evan Ratliff spent 27 days in constant fear of getting caught as a small army of amateur and professional investigators hunted him. He had a bounty on his head and the Internet nipping at his heels. Vanish, a combination of a manhunt and an experiment, began at 5:38 pm on August 14, 2009 as a bold headline on W (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Film:
Social networking sends $15,000 shocker inspired by Fawlty Towers into box-office hall of fameThere is nothing remotely scary about the beige library in the Soho Hotel. It's calm, quiet, bland. Yet towards the end of a low-key interview with Oren Peli, who's in London for less than 24 hours to promote his smash-hit low-budg (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
It's the morning after the big Chrome OS event where Google executives and engineers revealed a myriad of details about the company's first attempt at creating their own operating system. The highly anticipated news conference was tracked all over the web, liveblogged by technology sites, and Twittered so much that it's sti (Read More)
: What do you mean "was"? It's not even out for a year. This doesn't make sense to me. It's a preview. They did you a favor by playing show and tell. Patience. Also note that Sarah freelances for Microsoft.
Huffington Post:
CHICAGO — Sun-Times Media Group, which was recently sold out of bankruptcy to an investor group, said Friday it named John Barron to the newly created group publisher position and as senior vice president of news and editorial operations.The owner of the Chicago Sun-Times and dozens of suburban publications said Friday that (Read More)
The Guardian:
Lucy Mangan on the people in the headlinesStripped blogger Belle de JourThe blogger-turned-bestselling-author who documented her secret life as a call girl revealed after five years of carefully maintained anonymity her true identity as scientist Dr Brooke Magnanti this week, apparently in a pre-emptive strike against an im (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Society:
With five biological daughters, Anita Tedaldi was keen to adopt a little boy. But little did she ever imagine that it might not work outThe first time I considered giving up my baby, Dan, I was lying alone in bed. It was midnight, my children were asleep and my husband, a serviceman, was deployed away from home. I was so ta (Read More)
TechCrunch:
At our Real-Time CrunchUp today in San Francisco, we are hosting a panel titles “Media Streams: Are These The Utlimate Marketing Vehicle?”Panelists include Sean Rad, CEO of Ad.ly; Ryan Amos, co-founder of DailyBooth; Jesse Engle, CEO of CoTweet; Robin Bechtel, a celebrity agent and Philip Nelson, SVP of strategic developmen (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Society:
The pharmaceutical industry has taken almost two years to disseminate important informationOnce your medicines regulator decides it should change the side-effect warnings contained in the patient information of a drug taken by millions of people, how long do you think it would take for that change to be implemented?In Febru (Read More)