Jan 10, 2011 7:38 AM
More moves from old-school institutions into the world of apps: the British Library today announced a new app for Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) iOS and Android devices, its first foray into mobile. Moves like this to digitise library collections and make them widely available on mobile platforms could not come at…
Posted In: Apps, Legal, Copyright, Media & Publishing, Books, Mobile, Events, CES, Companies, Apple, iPad, iPhone, Google, Android, News Corp., Countries, Europe, France, UK, bibliotheque nationale de france, brightsolid, british library, dc thomson, friends reunited, gallica
Mar 5, 2009 12:00 AM
Wednesday’s unprecedented announcement from ITV’s Michael Grade showed us one tactic above all others - when your back’s against a wall, run away from online. Financial struggle forced ITV (LSE: ITV), in one fell swoop, to tear up its ambition, staked out four years ago, of becoming a significant player…
Posted In: Companies, ITV, friends reunited
Mar 4, 2009 2:56 AM
So much for sacred cows - this is even worse than anticipated. ITV (LSE: ITV) is taking drastic measures including paring back its online strategy to recoup cash, as it swung from a £188 million 2007 profit to a massive £2.7 billion overall loss in 2008… —Friends Reunited on sale:…
Posted In: Companies, ITV, friends reunited
Jan 5, 2009 3:19 AM
ITV’s failure to make Friends Reunited in to a successful social network has been plain to see since its acquisition in 2005. But the extent of the failure will be spelled out when the broadcaster, in a year-end review of previous acquisitions, concludes the outfit it now worth less than…
Posted In: Companies, ITV, friends reunited
May 21, 2008 8:16 AM
ITV (LSE: ITV) is restructuring the original top tier of its Friends Reunited site, which relaunched last month with a new social network feel and dropped premium subs in favour of ad funding. CEO Michael Murphy is stepping back to the board to become a non-executive director, while marketing director…
Posted In: Industry Moves, Companies, ITV, friends reunited, michael murphy, rob mogford, tim ward
Apr 30, 2008 5:19 AM
As expected, the newly relaunched Friends Reunited has dropped its pay wall, hoping that going free will allow it to keep a grip on its members who are increasingly decamping to other social networks. From March 2007 to March 2008, data from comScore (NSDQ: SCOR) shows Friends Reunited unique user…
Posted In: Social Media, friends reunited
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