News for February 2006
- PartyGaming CEO steps down
- The news came as PartyGaming reported a jump in annual profits of $583.7m (£334.9m) up 49% on last year. The company also saw a 63% rise in revenues to
- T-Mobile unveils £10m ad campaign
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The campaign for T-Mobile’s new ‘Flext’ tariff, covers TV, radio, print, online, outdoor and cinema, and an interactive TV advert made for Freeview, which
- Feb 28, 2006
- Advertising, Agencies, Marketing, Mobile
- Yahoo! to boost content following media appointments
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Simon Gunning joins as director of entertainment and games and Lloyd Shepherd joins as director of news, sport and information.
Both will be
- Feb 28, 2006
- Entertainment, Gaming, Media, Music, People
- Rough Trade partners Bleep for online store
- The deal will make the retailer’s music catalogue available to buy online in a DRM-free format. Stephen Godfroy of Rough Trade Retail, said:
- Sports site adds VoIP and video features
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The site will deploy Voice Commerce’ WhitePhone and CastAlive technology, to 200 countries worldwide offering fans free calls, voice and video messages
- Feb 27, 2006
- Sport, Technology, Telecoms
- BT bolsters interactive TV line up
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Turner Broadcasting will work with BT to deliver Cartoon Network’s programming and to develop entirely new interactive offerings.
These will be
- Feb 27, 2006
- Broadband, Broadcast, Technology, Telecoms
- Mobile pub opens on i-mode
- The new iPub channel features themed "pub" mobile games such as Pub Pool, Pub Fruity and Pub Darts as well as a number of mobile games. The
- River Island unveils Flash-based retail site
- The website , which launches today, employs Flash throughout the shopping process from browsing collections, to adding items to the shopping basket and
- Overture rebrands as Yahoo! Search Marketing in Europe
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Yahoo! acquired US-based Overture for $1.8bn in October 2003. The firm launched under the name GoTo.com in 1998 to deliver paid for links alongside search
- Feb 27, 2006
- Advertising, Branding, Marketing, Search
- ITV selects ukbetting for online World Cup coverage
- The deal was struck between ukbetting’s content division, TEAMtalk Media and ITV. The ITV Worlrd Cup site www.itv.com/worldcup will feature