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In possibly the strangest press release ever published, Time Warner today used the $500-a-pop Businesswire service to announce that they had bed bugs in their offices. What the hell is happening over at the media giant’s marketing department? Sending out a message to several thousand professional subscribers eager to hear of financial news and business [...]

IRGR stands for Investor Relations Global Rankings, and the 2010 IRGR for Asia Pacific and China have today been announced. Many companies have featured prominently, including the following exhaustive list – which is taken from the IRGR IR Global Rankings 2010 Asia-Pacific & China Press Release at Your Story: More than 500 companies from over [...]

Zavvi, the rebranded incarnation of the Virgin highstreet music shop has suspended most of its online sales after its supplier was hit by the collapse of Woolworths. Woolworths entered administration a few days ago, taking its DVD and music distribution arm, Entertainment UK Ltd, with it. Entertainment UK Ltd supplies Zavvi and WH Smith who [...]

For a while there, we had it very good as bloggers and content producers: we could use YouTube to store our videos, and embed them in high quality on other websites. On sites such as Remix.vg, we have been doing this for some time now, allowing visitors to find high quality remixes of their favourite [...]

The Newcastle University Alumni Service generously hosted a free wine and nibbles night at the Baltic in Newcastle last week. The “Gold Network” teamed up with One North East to deliver the “Live Local: Think Global” theme on Thursday 17th July 2008. Joanna Berry Academic Director of Executive MBA Programmes, Newcastle University Business School, kicked [...]

I recently attended a rather useless networking event in the North East which shall remain unidentified. I have previously resisted all attempts to lure me to any “networking” events. I always imagine them to be a bad version of The Office with minor players handing out business cards left right and centre. A relative who [...]