25 Jul YouView To Spy On Viewers
Alan Sugar’s new television service, YouView, will be able to track users’ viewing habits and pass the information onto third parties. Click here for full story...
Author: Daniel Cross
25 Jul Facebook Increases Lobbying
Facebook has again increased its spend on government lobbying, hoping to influence various issues concerning internet privacy and tracking. Click here for full story...
25 Jul New Social Search Engine Launches
A new start-up called Bottlenose is launching a search engine geared towards social media, aiming to improve efficiency in an area traditional search engines have struggled with. Click here for full story...
25 Jul Tablet Gaming Soars
Playing games has overtaken checking emails as the second most popular use of tablets (after browsing the internet), although gaming on smartphones is not yet quite as common. Click here for full story ...
25 Jul Texting More Popular Than Talking
Texting has overtaken talking on the telephone for the first time as new research provides an insight into the way communication is changing. Click here for full story...
25 Jul Winehouse Charity & Sales Success
While The Amy Winehouse Foundation, the charity set up by the singer’s family in the wake of her death, continues announce a host of new projects, it’s been revealed how sales of her music have also gone from strength to strength....
25 Jul Spotify Reaches 3m Users in USA
A year after launching in the USA, Spotify have revealed encouraging figures of over three million users playing in excess of thirteen million streams. Click here for full story...
25 Jul Bands/Union Attack LOCOG
More anger at the Olympics from musicians, with yet another band revealing the unreasonable demands organisers have been making, while the Musicians’ Union have accused LOCOG of breaking their word. Click here for full story...
25 Jul Snoop Dogg Becomes Snoop Lion
The veteran rapper has relaunched himself as a reggae singer (with Major Lazer on production duties), under the fierce new moniker Snoop Lion. Click here for full story...
25 Jul US Digital Sales Spike
Album sales may have dropped by 3% in the first half of this year, but the industry will be buoyed by news that digital sales are up 6%. Click here for full story Also, click here for a neat infographic summarising the shift in North American music-buying...