JiWire gets $20m funding boost for location-based advertising
JiWire has raised $20 million in Series C funding as the company expands it location-based mobile media across both apps and public wi-fi.
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Could super-injuctions take down Twitter?
A Twitter account naming super-injunction celebrities attracted over 34,000 followers in less than a day, sparking fears that the micro-blogging site could face pressure from the UK legal establishment.
Efficient Frontier boosts social media tools with Context Optional buy
Performance marketing company Efficient Frontier has acquired Context Optional, a provider of enterprise social marketing solutions.
Will this year see the UK’s first £1m mobile campaign?
The UK will experience the market’s first £1 million mobile advertising campaign in 2011, according to a new report from mobileSQUARED.
DraftFCB buys UK digital agency Blue Baracuda
DraftFCB has bought London-based Blue Barracuda, as part of agency’s new ‘international mergers and acquisitions programme’.
AOL profits slide 86%
Internet firm AOL faced another quarter of declining advertising and subscription revenue, pushing down profit as the company tries to turn itself into an online media conglomerate.
Text donations raise over £15m for Red Nose Day
Comic Relief 2011 has raised £15,168,331 through £1, £5 and £10 text donations, making a significant contribution to the overall £74.3 million raised so far.
Flickr ‘Royal Wedding Album’ shows what the world was doing on the big day
Flickr has launched ‘The People’s Royal Wedding Album’, a competition that aims to capture how the British public marked the marriage of Prince William and Kate Middleton.
‘Gambling.com’ becomes most expensive domain name of the year
Sedo, the online domain specialist, today announces that it has brokered the sale of gambling.com for $2.5 million, the highest price for a web address this year.
‘First-ever’ church service launched on Facebook
Internet church ‘St Pixels’ will be at the International Christian Resources Exhibition to host the first-ever interactive service on Facebook next week (Tue 10 May, 1 and 3pm).