Jul 17, 2015 | CPG, FMCG digital marketing food and beverages, India, Regulation, Social media, Twitter marketing
At the end of May 2015, India’s Food safety administration (FDA) ordered Nestlé India to recall its popular 2-minute Maggi noodles after tests showed that the product contained high levels of lead and MSG. Joanna Delaney, Digital Marketing Executive at Digital...
Jul 14, 2015 | Regulation
UK cities and businesses are being encouraged to apply for a £10m fund in a competition to use connected technology to boost their local area, such as environmental improvements, economic opportunities, and more efficient transport, healthcare and energy. The...
Jul 14, 2015 | E-commerce and E-retailing, Online advertising, Regulation
British shoppers reject facial recognition and personal greetings when entering brick-and-mortar shops, but welcome product personalisation and location-based offers in stores, according to new research. The study of over 1,000 UK consumers also found that Londoners...
Jul 13, 2015 | Regulation, Social media
The boss of online comminity Reddit is standing down after a user reviolt over an employee’s sacking earlier this month. Pao ends her eight-month tenure to be replaced by co-founder and former chief, Steve Huffman. He will rejoin Reddit’s other co-founder, Alexis...
Jul 8, 2015 | Online advertising, Online video, Regulation
Travel firm Kuoni and supermarket Co-op have pulled their pre-roll video ads from Rihanna’s controversial new music video ‘B***h Better Have My Money’. The song appeared on YouTube on July 1 and has already attracted over 20 million views. It is also available on...
Jul 8, 2015 | Regulation
The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) is calling for radical changes to the emergency ‘999’ call service to reflect the digital age, where more people are communicating by text or social media, rather than making a voice call. A new report from IET,...
Jul 7, 2015 | Regulation
UK Home Secretary Theresa May has been named internet villain of the year at this year’s ISPA awards, for pursuing a controversial communications data bill. The ISPA said the reason May was crowned internet villain was: “For forging ahead with communications data...
Jul 6, 2015 | France, Regulation
Uber has suspended its UberPOP taxi-ordering app in France, according to a newspaper report. Le Monde said the suspension comes in a week that two managers of the taxi-ordering app Uber were arrested for “illicit activity”. In June France’s interior...
Jul 2, 2015 | Mobile, Regulation
Mobile phone roaming will end in July 2017 and will be significantly cut next summer in an agreement on telecoms laws reached last night between MEPs and representatives of EU governments. The deal, reached after so-called trilogue discussions today involving the...
Jul 1, 2015 | Content marketing, Online advertising, Regulation, UK
Almost one in seven (15%) British adults online are currently using ad blocking software – mainly because they find online ads interruptive or annoying, according to new research. The Internet Advertising Bureau UK Ad Blocking report, conducted by YouGov, indicates...
Jul 1, 2015 | Regulation, Search engine marketing
Forget Marvin the Paranoid Android- we now have Google the Nihilistic Synthetic. The web giant’s new super-intelligent robot has answered some of life’s biggest philosophical questions, providing some rather creepy answers that highlight challenges facing AI...
Jul 1, 2015 | E-commerce and E-retailing, Regulation
Admist Greece’s ongoing financial crisis, the government has stopped online payment transactions from going ahead using Greek debit or credit cards. The move follows the imposition of a 60 euro ATM withdrawal limit, and the week-long closure of the country’s...
Jun 29, 2015 | Regulation
Dove, Cadbury, Kitkat, and BBC are just some of the big businesses yet to register the controversial .sucks domains that emerged from their sunrise period at the weekend, according to new research. Thousands of controversial .sucks domains emerged from their sunrise...
Jun 23, 2015 | Content marketing, CPG, Online video, Regulation, Viral and buyrals
A popular YouTube star has hit out at Lush after losing his decade-old domain to the cosmetics retailer. View his protest video posted on a new YouTube domain here: Matthew Lush has been using the YouTube address youtube.com/lush since 2005, but has found that fans...
Jun 19, 2015 | E-commerce and E-retailing, Online video, Regulation, Social media
Businesses are paying people to write positive online reviews and endorsements, with £23bn a year of UK consumer spending influenced by online reviews, according to a new report. Online Reviews and Endorsements Report on the CMA’s Call for Information The report,...
Jun 18, 2015 | Regulation
The UK’s Joint Industry Committee for Web Standards (JICWEBS) – the independent body that defines best practice and standards for online ad trading – has announced the next stage in the move to tackle online ad fraud. JICWEB’s Anti-Fraud Technical Working Group –...
Jun 17, 2015 | Regulation
Ministers in the European Council have agreed on a general approach to data protection legislation, but some key issues over how companies can use consumer data are still up for debate. This week the European Commission said that trialogue negotiations (three-way...
Jun 17, 2015 | Regulation
Privacy campaigners have boycotted talks aimed at creating a code of conduct for companies keen to use facial-recognition technology. The team of nine advocacy groups—including the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), and...
Jun 16, 2015 | E-commerce and E-retailing, Regulation
British technology firm Intelligent Environments has launched the world’s first emoji-only passcode, letting people log into their banks using four emoji characters, instead of traditional PINs or passwords. The world's first Emoji passcode from Intelligent...
Jun 16, 2015 | Email marketing, Regulation
Nearly 21 billion emails appearing to come from well-known commercial senders did not come from their IP addresses – a possible indication of phishing attacks, according to a new report. The study, from Return Path found that nearly 21 billion emails attributed to a...
