We saw recently how students are getting all riled up like never before by tuition fees and non-specific warring, but activism is also…
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Posted by Trista Orchard in Creative Economy | April 16, 2009 12:04PM | 1 Comment »
Although Bill Gates failed at his attempts to buy Yahoo in 2008 with a £21.3bn bid, the two could be putting the past behind them…
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Posted by Trista Orchard in Sci-tech | April 14, 2009 3:43PM | No Comments »
The newspaper business in the US continues to flounder and gasp for revenue, with the news last week that the venerable Boston Globe…
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Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Creative Economy | April 6, 2009 3:17PM | 3 Comments »
Google can’t stop creating these Will-Smith-in-Enemy-of-the-State-type paranoia situations. Fresh from social awkwardness nexus Google Latitude, yesterday they launched their UK version of Google’s Street View,…
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Posted by Trista Orchard in Sci-tech | March 20, 2009 2:39PM | 4 Comments »
Google holds our lives in its primary-coloured hands, but it’s not until they do things like accidentally letting loose a few personal documents to people…
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Posted by Trista Orchard in Sci-tech | March 10, 2009 2:45PM | 4 Comments »
Google’s torrid affair with radio advertising ended in tears and broken promises yesterday when they broke off their rocky three-year engagement. This loss follows last…
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Posted by Trista Orchard in Sci-tech | February 13, 2009 4:58PM | 1 Comment »
‘BRING ON THE DIGITAL BOOK REVOLUTION’, we say. The convergence of the book publishing world is picking up pace with the news that …
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Posted by Richard Leicester in Creative Economy | February 9, 2009 3:12PM | 7 Comments »
Nasa and Google are backing a college in Silicon Valley along with maverick/eccentric Ray Kurzweil, it’s been announced this week. Not one that…
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Posted by Jennifer Allan in Sci-tech | February 4, 2009 10:58AM | 12 Comments »
The Kingdom of Google is working to expand its empire from the realms of the Internet by waging a siege upon our desktop regions, with…
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Posted by Trista Orchard in Sci-tech | January 26, 2009 6:00PM | 2 Comments »
The Pope is entering the digital age with Google at his right hand side, creating the Vatican’s own Youtube channel. Christianity was last…
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Posted by Trista Orchard in Creative Economy | January 21, 2009 1:35PM | 4 Comments »
In a seminal piece in this month’s Atlantic Monthly (which is looking rather spiffy after a jazzy rebrand), Michael Hirschorn…
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Posted by Jack Roberts in Creative Economy | January 12, 2009 2:55PM | 4 Comments »
The crystal ball gazing in most newspapers at this time of year is amusing enough, but the smart media predictions follow where the money’s…
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Posted by Jack Roberts in Sci-tech | January 6, 2009 12:11PM | 2 Comments »