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Universal launches Electrospective Spotify app for electro 27 Aug 2013 | 06:49 pm
Repackaged electronic music now has its own brand – and its own app, allowing users to browse through 550 albums Spotify's music classifications just aren't niche enough, or at least that's the sugge...
Julian Assange hopes his jokey video will win him a Senate seat 27 Aug 2013 | 05:44 pm
Don't be fooled by the spoof mullet – Assange and his WikiLeaks party may do well in Australia's Senate elections next month Perhaps understandably, reaction to Julian Assange's recent appearance in ...
Cheap flights site Skyscanner to recruit 250 new staff 27 Aug 2013 | 05:13 pm
Travel website, based in Edinburgh, to fund doubling of workforce through profits, with 2012 turnover at £33.5m Skyscanner, the online flight search service, is to double its workforce to 500 in the ...
The FT urges action against Syria but other papers prefer diplomacy 27 Aug 2013 | 05:03 pm
Further to my posting yesterday, Will we bomb Syria? Yes, say press stories as papers urge Cameron not to do it, more papers give their views today. The Financial Times's editorial is headlined "The ...
Ofcom investigates violence in TV shows that children watch 27 Aug 2013 | 04:33 pm
Regulator said research will gauge level of concern about violence in shows broadcast before and straight after watershed Ofcom is to launch an investigation into whether TV shows that children and u...
Miley Cyrus criticised for raunchy MTV Video Music Awards performance 27 Aug 2013 | 03:57 pm
Parents Television Council, backed by Billy Ray Cyrus, says MTV manipulated the content rating on 'adults-only material' An organisation backed by Miley Cyrus's dad has criticised a raunchy MTV Video...
ITV drama Vera pulls in 5 million 27 Aug 2013 | 03:21 pm
Brenda Blethyn's return as police detective beats BBC1's What Remains in the ratings, which was watched by 4.5 million The return of Vera, the ITV drama starring Brenda Blethyn as a Northumberland po...
Philip Morris wins reprieve over cigarette health warnings in Thailand 27 Aug 2013 | 03:11 pm
Tobacco giant welcomes court decision to suspend deadline for introducing larger health warnings on cigarette packets Tobacco giant Philip Morris has won a temporary victory in its fight to keep larg...
UTV Media's TalkSport division suffers 63% fall in profits 27 Aug 2013 | 02:48 pm
Company remains upbeat despite disappointing first-half figures, which saw radio profits drop from £6.7m to £2.5m TalkSport owner UTV Media has reported a slump of more than 60% in profits at its Bri...
Sadly, too many journalists seeking academic credibility can't write 27 Aug 2013 | 02:45 pm
Over the last couple of weeks I have run extracts from the second edition of the book about local journalism What do we mean by local?* Now one of its co-editors, John Mair, offers his thoughts on the...
