HMV swings to loss after sales plummet
Gina LovettHMV Group has reported a £122m loss for the year to April, hit by declining sales at its entertainment stores.
HMV Group has reported a £122m loss for the year to April, hit by declining sales at its entertainment stores.
Specific Media has bought MySpace from NewsCorp for $35m (£21.9m) – a fraction of its peak value – deploying Justin Timberlake to front the social network.
A record 28.6 million people in the UK visited Facebook in May, according to UKOM/Nielsen.
Digital practitioners at director level on client-side are the highest paid in the digital industry, commanding average salaries of £100-110,000, according to new media age’s first digital industry salary survey.
Estée Lauder Companies has signed a three-month sponsorship of Marie Claire’s Genius Beauty iPhone app.
ISBA has launched two best practice guides for mobile marketing and digital analytics to help marketers deal with the growing complexity of online marketing channels.
The Cabinet Office has appointed The Guardian’s director of digital development Mike Bracken as its executive director of digital.
A review of IP and UK copyright law has recommended legalising the copying of music and films from CD or DVD to digital devices.
The Sunday Times has launched a list of the most influential people in social media as a separate site that will sit outside of its paywall.
Vodafone has launched a scheme that lets London travellers pay for taxi fares through their phones.
Apple has conceded the iPhone’s location-tracking files contain bugs but denied accusations it’s recording iPhone owners’ location data.
Mail Online has become largest global online newspaper after The New York Times, according to Comscore’s latest newspaper figures.
The National Magazine Company’s digital publisher Sara Stephenson has left after 17 years.
Google will be subject to privacy audits for the next 20 years, following charges that it violated its own privacy promises.
Mail Online remains the most popular online newspaper, although its unique visitor numbers are down month on month, according to latest ABCe figures.