Source: AME Info, Abu Dhabi, United Arab EmiratesAug.迷你倉價錢 28--US'S SAILTHRU OPENS LONDON OFFICE TO OVERSEE EMEA OPERATIONS: US-based provider of personalised marketing communications technology, Sailthru has opened a new office in the UK to oversee the firm's operations in Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA). "Omnichannel personalisation is a challenge facing marketers around the world and it's exciting for Sailthru to be the leading provider of this globally in-demand solution across verticals and at scale," said founder and CEO of Sailthru, Neil Capel. "As marketers today compete for customer attention, it's critical that businesses be able to apply strategic personalisation to increase the relevancy of their brand and, as a direct result, conversion. With our new office in London we'll be able to do just that for EMEA."EMIRATES AIRLINE AWARDS HAVAS MEDIA GLOBAL MEDIA ACCOUNT: Emirates Airline has selected communications group Havas Media to handle its global media planning and buying account, Campaign ME has reported. The deal is believed to be worth an estimated $150m, the report said. Prior to Havas, Starcom MediaVest Group (SMG) held the business since 2008.SONY MOBILE AWARDS BPG|COHN & WOLFE PR ACCOUNT: BPG|Cohn & Wolfe has won the regional PR brief of mobile phone company, Sony Mobile Communications, following a competitive pitch, Campaign ME has reported. Under the contract, the agency will handle Sony Mobile's PR requirements in the Middle East, as well as helping to strengthen the performance of the brand as it targets ambitious sales targets of 100 percent growth in the current year.FACEBOOK TO SHUT DOWN PHYSICAL GIFTS SERVICE: Facebook has decided to cancel its physical gift offerings, which allows users to purchase tangible goods, less than a year after launching the service, Cnet has reported. Instead, the social network will focus on digital gift cards and push its Facebook Card. "Since launching Gifts in December last year, roughly 80 percent of gifts have been gift cards. So, we're now adding more digital codes and making the Facebook Card redeemable at more merchants," a company spokesperson said. "As a part of this shift in focus to Facebook Card and digital codes, we're also phasing out physical gifts."AL JAZEERA AMERICA SUES AT&T FOR DROPPING CHANNEL: Al Jazeera Network has filed a lawsuit against US communications giant AT&T for dropping the broadcast of its new American news channel on the day it was launched, AFP has reported. "Unfortunately AT&T's decision to unilaterally delete Al Jazeera America presented us with circumstances that were untenable, an affiliate that has wilfully and knowingly breached its contractual obligations," Al-Jazeera America said. "Accordingly, we had no choice but to take this action and to enforce Al Jazeera America's rights under its agreement with AT&T, and to compel AT&T to do the right thing," it said.FACEBOOK IS UAE'S MOST POPULAR SOCIAL NETWORKING WEBSITE: The UAE Telecoms Regulatory Authority (TRA) has said Facebook is the most popular social media in the country, receiving 87 percent of the total visits to all social networking websites, Khaleej Times has reported. "Facebook was by far the most popular site with a total of 13.2 billion visits," said the TRA. Twitter came second, with 11 percent of the total visits (1.7 billion), followed by LinkedIn with 282 million, it added.LEGALITY OF AL-JAZEERA MUBASHER EGYPT QUESTIONED: The Egyptian cabinet has asked the ministries of investment, telecommunication and media and information to examine the legality of the Al-Jazeera Mubasher Egypt channel operating in the country, Daily News Egypt has reported. The request was triggered by the resentment that the people have against Al-Jazeera after broadcasts "threatening national security, stability and unity," a statement from the cabinet said.WORLDWIDE TV ADVERTISING MARKET TO JUMP 25.8 PERCENT BY 2017: STUDY: According to research group IDATE, global video and television revenues are expected to grow from €392bn in 2012 to €483bn in 2017, Digital TV Europe has reported. Advertising revenue will see even stronger growth, according to the group, rising by 25.8 percent to reach €191.4bn. Linear TV will continue to generate 91 percent of income, while Video-on-Demand will represent 7 percent of the total video market by 2017, the report said. Total VOD revenues will amount to €34bn, with Over-The-Top Content (OTT) services representing 74 percent of the total, it said.QATAR SET TO LAUNCH SATELLITE BY MONTH-END: Qatar has announced its Sohail I satellite is to be launched between 5.30pm and 6.30pm on August 29 from France, the Peninsula has reported. The satellite, which will be positioned at 25.5? east, will provide services including TV broadcasts, the report said. The Gulf country also plans to launch Sohail II in 2016-17.AL-JAZEERA AMERICA TO LAUNCH TOMORROW: Qatar's Al-Jazeera is launching its US news channel on Tuesday, aiming to shake up the broadcast journalism market stateside, AFP has reported. Al-Jazeera America will reach more than 40 million households and vastly expands the footprint of the Doha-based media group, despite questions about how it will be received by American viewers.MY-HD, IRDETO INK MEDIA PROTECTION DEAL: Regio迷你倉al satellite pay TV platform, My-HD, has selected Irdeto, a world leader in Media Protection, to secure the launch of over 30 premium HD channels via Arabsat to the Middle East and Northern Africa (MENA) region. My-HD began shipping its HD set-top boxes (STBs) this month integrated with Irdeto Cloaked CA, a cardless conditional access (CA) solution, which provides dynamic content protection without the cost and complexity of managing physical smart cards. The solution, with a unified hardware and software security client, will enable multiple operators to utilise a single, common STB in a fully independent and secure way, which is a direct benefit for subscribers.GOOGLE FRIDAY OUTAGE CAUSED 40 PERCENT DROP IN GLOBAL TRAFFIC: GOSQUARED: According to analytics firm GoSquared, a brief disruption of Google services on Friday has caused a 40 percent drop in global internet traffic during the five-minute window, Cnet has reported. Google has acknowledged the outage, which it said has been resolved.ETISALAT'S ELIFE TO BROADCAST EPL GAMES: Etisalat has announced it would broadcast the English Premier League (EPL) football matches for fans in UAE through the Al Jazeera Sport Package on eLife TV. In addition to the existing 16 Al Jazeera Sport channels, six new HD channels are being activated for English Premier League (EPL), Etisalat said.TWOFOUR54 TO PROVIDE PRODUCTION SERVICES TO 'FAST & FURIOUS': Abu Dhabi's twofour54 has said it has granted with the producers of the next part of the Hollywood action franchise, Fast & Furious, a 30 percent rebate on production costs offered by the UAE capital's media hub, Gulf News has reported. The seventh instalment in the billion-dollar franchise will be directed by Australian filmmaker James Wan, with Vin Diesel returning as Dominic Torretto.MY-HD TO LAUNCH 9 ROTANA CHANNELS IN HIGH DEFINITION: Satellite pay-TV platform, My-HD is set to shortly expand with nine HD Rotana Channels, five of which do not exist in standard definition (SD) today, Saudi Gazette has reported. This will bring the total number of My-HD channels to 41 premium channels including 35 in HD. Current subscribers will get the additional channels at no extra cost, said My-HD.FACEBOOK ACQUIRES SPEECH TRANSLATION SOFTWARE FIRM: Facebook has acquired Mobile Technologies, a company that specialises in speech interpretation and translation software, in a bid to help the social networking website better connect its users across the globe, PC World has reported. "We believe this acquisition is an investment in our long-term product roadmap," Facebook product management director Tom Stocky, said in a blog post. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.NEW VIDEO SERVICE LAUNCHED BY YOUTUBE FOUNDERS: Chad Hurley and Steve Chen, the founders of YouTube, have launched a new video app and website called MixBit aimed at "filmmakers, citizen journalists and everyone in between," Digitial TV Europe has reported. The app lets users record, edit and publish videos that can last from one second to one hour from their mobile. MixBit also is the first website that enables users to collaborate with each other and remix videos uploaded by the community. "When we built YouTube, we wanted to help people share their videos with each other and the world," said Hurley. "Eight years later, people now upload 100 hours of video to YouTube every minute. Today we want to remove the barriers to video creation," he said.ABU DHABI UNIVERSITY LAUNCHES NEW LOGO COMPETITION: The Abu Dhabi University (ADU) is launching a competition to design a new logo, marking the university's 10th anniversary, with a Dhs10,000 grand prize, Khaleej Times has reported. Submissions for ADU's logo are already open, with a deadline of August 31. The contest is open to individuals or establishments located in the UAE, whether professionals or amateurs, the ADU said. The competition may be entered through ADU's Facebook page and participants may submit a maximum of two logos, it said.WASHINGTON POST TO BE ACQUIRED BY AMAZON FOUNDER: Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon.com Inc. has said he will buy the Washington Post newspaper for $250m, in a surprise deal that ends the Graham family's 80 years of ownership of one of the US' most influential publications, Reuters has reported. Bezos said the acquisition was a personal endeavour, reassuring employees and readers of the 135-year-old newspaper that he will preserve its journalistic tradition, while driving innovation.DUBAI MUNICIPALITY TURNS TO TWITTER TO PROMOTE USE OF ARABIC: The municipality of Dubai is seeking to launch an active social media platform to boost the use of the Arabic language and curb Emirati and Arab expatriates from using English in their daily conversations, Gulf News has reported. "We plan to have a word for the day, which will be posted on Twitter and have its roots explained," said Rashid Bukhash, president of the Arabic Team at the civic body. "The Arabic language is not disappearing but a lot of the youth are writing Arabic in Roman script, and many times when they talk, they mix both languages together," said Bukhash.Copyright: ___ (c)2013 AME Info (Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates) Visit AME Info (Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates) at .ameinfo.com Distributed by MCT Information Services新蒲崗迷你倉
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