New and Digital Media Stories Summary

1. 11/09/14: Channel 4 to replace 4OD with new online hub all 4
http://pavandeepa2unit3.blogspot.co.uk/2014/09/weekly-new-and-digital-media-stories.html
2. 11/09/14: Microsoft 'in talks to buy Minecraft creator for $2bn'
http://pavandeepa2unit3.blogspot.co.uk/2014/09/weekly-new-and-digital-media-stories.html
3. 11/09/14: Twitter is this 'Operating system of news'
http://pavandeepa2unit3.blogspot.co.uk/2014/09/weekly-new-and-digital-media-stories.html
4. 18/09/14: Apple reveals 4m pre-orders for iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 plus in first 24 hours.
http://pavandeepa2unit3.blogspot.co.uk/2014/09/apple-reveals-4m-pre-orders-for-iphone.html
5. 18/09/14: YouTube stars and shows may be heading to your Facebook news feed
http://pavandeepa2unit3.blogspot.co.uk/2014/09/apple-reveals-4m-pre-orders-for-iphone.html
6. 18/09/14: Google takes down newspaper's positive story about an artist http://pavandeepa2unit3.blogspot.co.uk/2014/09/apple-reveals-4m-pre-orders-for-iphone.html 
7. 29/09/14: Apple will not shut down Dr Dre's Beats Music but could fold it into iTunes
http://pavandeepa2unit3.blogspot.co.uk/2014/09/weekly-new-and-digital-media-stories_29.html 
8. 29/09/14: A BENDY iPhone 6, you say? Pah, warp claims are bent out of shape: Consumer Reports
http://pavandeepa2unit3.blogspot.co.uk/2014/09/weekly-new-and-digital-media-stories_29.html

9. 29/09/14: They used to say 'print or digital'. But do we need to choose?
http://pavandeepa2unit3.blogspot.co.uk/2014/09/weekly-new-and-digital-media-stories_49.html

10. 29/09/14: EE agrees to buy 58 Phones 4U stores for £2.5m
http://pavandeepa2unit3.blogspot.co.uk/2014/09/weekly-new-and-digital-media-stories_49.html 
11. 6/10/14: BBC iPlayer catch up window extended to 30 days
http://pavandeepa2unit3.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/new-and-digital-media-stories.html
12. 6/10/14: Alleged iPhone 6 prototype for sale on ebay for more than $60,000 http://pavandeepa2unit3.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/new-and-digital-media-stories.html
13. 13/10/14; Amazon Fire Phone Review
http://pavandeepa2unit3.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/news-and-digital-media-story.html
14. 13/10/14: The Snappening: Thousands of kids, some as young as 10 could have nude photos posted online.
http://pavandeepa2unit3.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/news-and-digital-media-story.html
15. 13/10/14: Smartphone users are busy 221 times of the day
http://pavandeepa2unit3.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/news-and-digital-media-story.html
16. 13.10.14 21 Emotions we all experience when watching X factor
http://pavandeepa2unit3.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/news-and-digital-media-story.html
17. 20/10/14: Twitter teams up with Soundcloud and iTunes to play audio within tweets
http://pavandeepa2unit3.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/new-and-digital-media-stories_48.html
18. 20/10/14: Facebook Safety Check will help tell friends youre safe during disasters
http://pavandeepa2unit3.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/new-and-digital-media-stories_48.html
19. The dizzying decline of Britain’s local newspapers: do you want the bad news, or the good news?
http://pavandeepa2unit3.blogspot.co.uk/2014_11_01_archive.html
20 To keep its stars happy, youtube may let you pay to skip ads
http://pavandeepa2unit3.blogspot.co.uk/2014_11_01_archive.html
21. Dropbox and Microsoft Team up, placing Office in the cloud
http://pavandeepa2unit3.blogspot.co.uk/2014_11_01_archive.html
22. Man Jailed for Whatsapp 'Revenge Porn' after posting images of woman online
http://pavandeepa2unit3.blogspot.co.uk/2014_11_01_archive.html
23. Changing Channels: Cost of top pay bundles rises to £100 a month
http://pavandeepa2unit3.blogspot.co.uk/2014_11_01_archive.html
24. Media jobs website Gorkana sold to Cision in £200m deal
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25. Royal Mail says Amazon Delivery service will hit its UK parcels business
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26. 'Revenge Porn' Facebook post leads to jail sentence
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27. Google plans launch of child friendly products
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28. Tesco joins retail stampede to social media in bid to create brand chatter
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29. No makeup selfie: Cancer Research's lesson on benefits of quick thinking
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30. Sun+ signs up 225,000 paying subscribers
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31. Mail online revenues grow 41% to £62m in 2014
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32. Twitter unveils new systmen for reporting abuse
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33. Sony offers discounts after Christmas PlayStation Network hack
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34. Apple faces lawsuit over storage space on iPhones and iPads
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35. Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg follows Optah by founding book club
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36. Controversial VAT change means e-books are about to get more expensive
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37. Developers made $10bn from iOS apps in 2014
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38. WhatsApp growth continues with 700m users sending 30bn daily messages
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39. Life before and after Facebook
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41. Ebooks at night won’t help you sleep tight, US study http://pavandeepa2unit3.blogspot.co.uk/
42. The Social Media use does not increase stress study claims.
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43. Facebook at Work: social network unveils 'pilot' for companies
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44. Teen robbed and then stabbed to death 'after being lured into Bronx apartment building by girl on Facebook'
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45. WikiLeaks demands answers after Google hands staff emails to US government
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46. WhatsApp messenger makes move to the web
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47. Candy Crush Saga players spent £865m on the game in 2014 alone
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48.1983 to today: a history of mobile apps
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49. Snapchat helps Daily Mail and Vice Media get on message with youngsters
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50. Twitter: what we learned from the social network's latest financial results
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51. Seven things we learned from Facebook's latest financial results
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52. Mail Online soars past 200m monthly browsers as newspaper sites bounce back
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53. Apple's larger ‘iPad Pro’ expected in October
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54. Xiaomi enters Europe with accessories store – but no phones yet
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56. Apple overtakes Samsung as the world's biggest smartphone maker visitor uses his Apple iPhone to take a picture of the new Samsung Galaxy 6 smartphone at GSM Mobile World Congress in Barcelona
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57. Smartphones are addictive and should carry health warning, say academics
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58. Holy Moly gossip website closes after 13 years
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59. The mobile phone emoticons that could wipe the smile off your face :-( 
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60. Google 'illegally took content from Amazon, Yelp, Trip Advisor,' report finds
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New and Digital Media Stories

Snapchat helps Daily Mail and Vice Media get on message with youngsters

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/feb/08/snapchat-discover-daily-mail-vice-media-facebook

This article is about the way in which media organisations have all gotten together in order to create a page on snapchat known as the 'discover page'.

•  Daily Mail, Vice Media and Snapchat, the messaging app once mainly known for sexting, might seem unlikely allies in shaping the future of media distribution. But in the frenetic search for the next big social media platform, it seems media organisations are prepared to accept unlikely bedfellows in the name of necessity.
• Discover is unusual as one of the first formal alliances between traditional media companies and new-style social media apps such as Line, WhatsApp and Snapchat, which host one-to-one messaging, rather than the one-to-many or many-to-many interactions of Twitter and Facebook. Yet its launch could also be seen as extensions of media organisations’ existing collaborations with these next-generation social media, which include the Oxford Mail launching a WhatsApp news service and the BBC experimenting with news via WhatsApp and WeChat in India, in a search for the “new Facebook” and the associated traffic.

This is interesting as it shows the way in which organisations have joined up together in order to create such thing involving different companies.

Twitter: what we learned from the social network's latest financial results 

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/feb/06/twitter-social-network-financial-results

This article is specifically about the way in which Twitter is reaches out to at least 300 million users by March.

• The social network’s earnings call with analysts provided more context to its latest numbers, including news of an iOS 8 bug that lost it four million users; Twitter’s further plans for recommendation and curation; and a data-sharing deal with Google.
• Twitter had an average of 288 million monthly active users (MAUs) in the final quarter of 2014. That’s up 20% year-on-year, but was only four million more MAUs than it averaged in the third quarter of 2014.
• Twitter now makes $2.37 in ad revenues for every 1,000 timeline views on its service, and mobile is the key. 80% of its active users access Twitter from a mobile device at least some of the time last quarter, and mobile ads accounted for 88% of Twiter’s $432m of advertising revenues.

Seven things we learned from Facebook's latest financial results

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jan/29/seven-things-learned-facebook-financial-results-video-oculus-rift 

This article is about the way in which Facebook has gained a lot of users and the video aspect is growing and the use of Facebook has increased due to the usage of smartphones. 

• “Today, over 50% of people in the US who come to Facebook daily watch at least one video per day and globally over 65% of Facebook video views occur on mobile,” said the chief operating officer, Sheryl Sandberg.
• Facebook had 1.19 billion mobile monthly active users in the final quarter of 2014, which equates to more than 85% of its total users, and it counts 745 million people as mobile daily active users.
• A user in the US or Canada was worth $9 in the final quarter of 2014, but Europeans were only worth $3.45 and users in Asia-Pacific $1.27. Users in the rest of the world including Africa and Latin America – which is the big potential growth area – were only worth 94 cents.
• This is quite interesting as it shows the way in which facebook is and has grown with innovation over the few years. 

Mail Online soars past 200m monthly browsers as newspaper sites bounce back

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/feb/20/mail-online-gains-17m-unique-browsers-as-newspaper-sites-bounce-back

This article is about the way in which the views went higher on the Daily Mails Online Website. 

Reason being because Eastenders live week was on. 

• Mail Online powered past 200 million monthly unique browsers for the first time in January.
• The Daily Mail website’s monthly traffic increased to 224,934,062, an 18.7% increase on the previous month, according to the the latest Audit Bureau of Circulations figures published on Thursday. 
• theguardian.com also reported record monthly traffic, passing 120 million monthly unique browsers in January, the month it completed the switch to its redesigned website. It attracted 121,733,045 monthly uniques, a rise of 14% on the previous month.
• Express.co.uk increased its traffic by 19.3% to 878,858, while DailyStar.co.uk enjoyed a hefty 36.7% uplift to 668,437.
• Metro.co.uk, the website of the morning freesheet, reported an 8.4% rise in traffic to 1,278,354.
• The statistics shown are of those newspapers and show that they still have a place online and are able to attract more and more viewers rather than having to physically sell them.

Apple's larger ‘iPad Pro’ expected in October

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/mar/05/apples-larger-ipad-pro-expected-october-usb-ports

This article is all about the new Ipad. And ir states how the iPad is due to being production in the second half of the year. 

• Production starting in September would allow Apple to release the new iPad within October, the month in which Apple traditionally refreshes its tablet line.
• Apple has seen four straight quarters of declining sales of its iPad line, which is currently offered in 9.7in and 7.9in screen sizes, despite the launch of a thinner iPad Air 2 and iPad Mini 3, both introducing Apple’s Touch ID fingerprint sensor to the tablet
• A larger iPad measuring 12.9in diagonally would offer 76% more screen area than the current 9.7in if it retains the same 4:3 ratio for its width and length. It could be more attractive to business users, who have already started to use Apple’s 9.7in iPad as a cheaper, more secure and longer-lasting laptop alternative.
• I think this article is interesting as it I have quite a lot of interest in new products and technology and knowing that a new product of Apple is going to be released is good. 

Xiaomi enters Europe with accessories store – but no phones yet

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/mar/04/xiaomi-enters-europe-with-accessories-store-but-no-phones-yet

This article is about the way in which the worlds biggest smartphone manufacturer which is also known as Chinas Version of Apple, is soon to be entering Europe. However they will only be selling accessories and not so much of phones.

• The five-year-old company – dubbed “China’s Apple” – recently became the third largest smartphone manufacturer despite only selling its phones in China. In Europe it will start selling its Mi Band fitness tracker, headphones and battery packs, but not its eagerly anticipated smartphones.
• If Xiaomi begin selling smartphones such as its well-received Mi Note 4 phablet in the US and Europe, the company would be likely to face legal challenges over patent infringement.
• The company recently launched a range of new smartphones and phablets that target the market leaders, Apple and Samsung. Chief executive Lei Jun announced that the company had won various patents across its smartphone technology and that it had raised $1.1bn in venture capital, valuing the company at $45bn
• This is an interesting article as it shows what changes being made in Europe and the way in which the organisation is spreading and coming into a new place causing more competition for those surrounding.

Apple overtakes Samsung as the world's biggest smartphone maker visitor uses his Apple iPhone to take a picture of the new Samsung Galaxy 6 smartphone at GSM Mobile World Congress in Barcelona 

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/mar/04/apple-takes-over-samsung-worlds-biggest-smartphone-maker-china-last-quarter-2014

• This article is about how Apple have overtaken Samsung in the demand of their phones as they have sold more over the last quarter of 2014. It discusses that this has been the case due to the increased demand of Apple products and phones in China, resulting in more sales.
• The US company sold 74.8m smartphones, just ahead of Samsung’s 73m units, analysis firm Gartner said.
• Apple’s iPhone sales were up almost 25m on the same period last year, driven by an explosion in demand from China that helped push its profits to a record $18bn (£11.8bn) in the final quarter.
• Samsung sold nearly 10m fewer phones than it did in the runup to Christmas 2013, thanks to lacklustre demand for its flagship Galaxy S5 and fierce competition at the lower end of the market.
• Chinese firms such as Xiaomi, Huawei and Lenovo, which from a startup in 2010 is now valued at $45bn, have begun to nibble at Samsung’s sales by offering high performance low-cost phones and brands that younger customers increasingly identify with.
• Xiaomi has more than doubled its market share in a year to 5%, selling almost 19m units in the final three months of 2014, up from 6m the year before. The firm has already expanded into developing markets including India, Indonesia and Mexico, and is preparing to launch its Mi.com accessories store in Europe.
• Samsung is now fighting to avoid the downwards spiral that damaged once profitable mobile phone businesses like Nokia and Blackberry. It responded on Sunday by launching two updates to its flagship phone, the S6 and S6 Edge, which sports an unusual curved screen.

Smartphones are addictive and should carry health warning, say academics

This article is about the way in which a study found that smartphones are really addictive and is and can be a threat to ones relationships and life as they spend on average 3.6 hours on it a day.

• A study by the University of Derby and published in the International Journal of Cyber Behaviour, Psychology and Learning found that 13% of participants in the study were addicted, with the average user spending 3.6 hours per day on their device.
• Co-author Dr Zaheer Hussain, from the University of Derby’s psychology department, said he was not suggesting the harmful effects were on a par with cigarettes or alcohol but that nevertheless the devices should carry a health warning.
• “People need to know the potential addictive properties of new technologies,” he said. “It [the warning] could be before they purchase them or before they download an app. If you’re downloading a game such as Candy Crush or Flappy Bird there could be a warning saying that you could end up playing this for hours and you have other responsibilities [that could be neglected].”
• Social networking sites were the most popularly used apps (87%), followed by instant messaging apps (52%) and then news apps (51%)
• Narcissism and neuroticism were linked to addiction and the authors suggest that smartphones can actually create the former in users. They point to the fact that 35% of people said they used their devices in areas or situations when they were banned (eg while driving), with many offering the justification that they knew better than the authorities who created the rules.
• While 47% of people spoke positively of improved social relations, almost a quarter admitted their smartphones create communication issues in “real life”. These included less conversation and a breakdown in communication because of spending too much time on their device in the company of family and friends. Severe distraction from interpersonal relationships leading to a negative impact in familial communications was specified by 60 participants.

Holy Moly gossip website closes after 13 years

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/mar/10/holy-moly-gossip-website-closes-popbitch

One of the most popular websites owned by the makers of Big Brother has now closed. Been created in 2002 it was very successful and gained many viewers

• “Over a decade after the launch of Holy Moly, the articles being published this week will sadly be the last,” it said in a statement.
• “Everyone involved is incredibly proud of the site but also accepts that the digital publishing world is a very different place from the one Holy Moly started out in 13 years ago and unfortunately it just isn’t financially sustainable anymore.

In my opinion this website was great as it targeted straight at its target market as it was based on celebrities and loads of daily gossip about them. 

The mobile phone emoticons that could wipe the smile off your face :-(

http://www.theguardian.com/money/2015/feb/06/mobile-phone-emoticons-could-wipe-smile-off-face

This article is about the way in which those that have a old phone, when recieving emojis get sent a picture message instead. 

• “The problem is that MMS is stuck in a time warp,” said Ernest Doku, a telecoms expert at uswitch.com. “You have now got lots of data-driven services, such as WhatsApp, where people can send messages that are as long as they like with low charges.
• Britain’s biggest network, EE, charges 40p for an MMS, compared with 12p for a standard text. Three charges 31p for an MMS and 2p for an SMS on its pay-as-you-go tariff.
• The case of a woman who racked up a £1,200 bill over four months through the use of emoticons in texts.
• In a recent survey into unexpectedly high bills the watchdog found that 4% of the 5,700 people surveyed said they had received a high bill caused by unexpected charges for emoticons.

In my opinion this is quite an interesting article as it shows a negative way in which new and digital media can fail to do as it is meant to, which means issues are made when one sends another an emoji and one could be charged for it. 

Google 'illegally took content from Amazon, Yelp, Trip Advisor,' report finds

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/mar/20/google-illegally-took-content-from-amazon-yelp-tripadvisor-ftc-report

This article is about the way in which Google have manipulated search results in order to promote its own services over the rival sites, therefore, for their own benefit and in certain perspectives leading real harm to consumers.

• America’s Federal Trade Commission (FTC) voted unanimously to end its investigation into Google in early 2013 after extracting concessions from the Silicon Valley Company.
• The findings, contained in a report produced in 2012 by FTC staff to advise commissioners before their final decision on the case, claim Google also caused “harm to many vertical competitors”.
• In its 2013 settlement, the FTC ruled against Google on scraping. Rivals can now opt out of having their content lifted, without fear of being demoted in the search rankings.
• Scott Cleland, publisher of the watchdog site Google Monitor and president of the Precursor research firm, said: “Public evidence concerning the sequence of events surrounding the FTC’s closure of its Google search practices investigation creates at least the appearance that politics, and not merits, drove the FTC’s ultimate conclusion.”

In my opinion this shows how such big institutions mess around and do what they arent meant to and that they do things in order to make sure they get profit out of it.