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Facebook planning to sell TV-style ads in your newsfeed for $2.5m
Thursday 01 August 2013
15-second adverts could be directly placed into users' news feeds 'no more than three times a day'
Nintendo's Wii U: sales plummet as Asda drops the console
Wednesday 31 July 2013
Nintendo's console sold just 160,000 units between April and June.
Stolen personal details of 400,000 witnesses and defendants at Salford Magistrates Court found for sale on eBay
Wednesday 24 July 2013
The £1,200 server was returned but police found insufficient evidence to find the thief
Most porn-on-demand services are beyond UK regulation, warns watchdog
Friday 19 July 2013
Most porn on demand services available to British internet users are operated from outside the UK putting them beyond UK regulation, a regulator has warned.
Exclusive: PwC links to independent anti-reform lobbyist revealed
Friday 19 July 2013
Connection exposed as competition regulators prepare to shake up the audit market
Maria Miller writes to BBC to 'express concern' over John Inverdale's Marion Bartoli comments during Wimbledon
Thursday 18 July 2013
Inverdale remarked that the ladies' champion was 'never going to be a looker'
MPs clear GCHQ use of US Prism system as legal
Wednesday 17 July 2013
But they will review legislation regarding effect of surveillance on privacy and human rights
Lord Patten to leave after true scale of ‘dark days’ laid bare as BBC admits pay for top bosses soared by 60 per cent
Tuesday 16 July 2013
Chairman of Trust to stand down in 2015 after ‘chaotic’ year of vast redundancy payouts and failure of £100m digital project
BBC Worldwide sales hit £1.16bn in a year
Tuesday 16 July 2013
Selling TV hits such as the natural history series Africa and Strictly Come Dancing around the world helped the BBC's commercial arm, BBC Worldwide, to boost sales by 3 per cent to £1.16 billion in the year to March.
BBC announces Mishal Husain as new female voice for Today programme
Tuesday 16 July 2013
Show's stalwart presenter Jim Naughtie has moved to work on coverage of Scottish independence referendum
BBC Jimmy Savile sex scandal investigation costs nearly £5m
Tuesday 16 July 2013
Probe into Stuart Hall affair will add to costs
UK police authorised to seize mobile data at the border without reasonable suspicion
Monday 15 July 2013
Data can include phone contacts, text and email metadata, photos and call history
Yes, we believe they deserve a pay hike - but there will be sacrifices
Thursday 11 July 2013
Tackling this issue is long overdue and will be good for democracy, says watchdog boss
The Hunger Games, The Woman in Black, and Men in Black 3 among films complained about to the BBFC ... joined by The Railway Children
Thursday 11 July 2013
And after 40 unblemished years, family classic The Railway Children gets its first complaint
- 1 Is the Muslim call to prayer really such a menace?
- 2 Channel 4 to 'provoke' viewers who associate Islam with terrorism with live call to prayer during Ramadan
- 3 US army doctor returns arm to Vietnamese soldier fifty years after he took it as a souvenir
- 4 Police seize possessions of rough sleepers in crackdown on homelessness
- 5 Demand for food banks has nothing to do with benefits squeeze, says Work minister Lord Freud
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