Posts made in November, 2014

on Nov 30, 2014

By Natalie Mortimer The NHS is just at the start of capitalising on the data that is accessible to it, according to experts including University College london (UCL) professor for Dementia Research Piers Kotting. Speaking at The Drum’s Disruption Day event in London last week (27 November) Kotting, who is programme director, office of the National Director for Dementia Research at UCL, called on the industry to create “one more disruption” to actually turn data and research “into something that delivers answers”. “We see big data as an opportunity to allow us to do both cross sectional and longitudinal analysis of data across Read full story › Source: The Drum...

on Nov 30, 2014

By Jessica Davies Amazon is to release a new deal every ten minutes on Cyber Monday (1 December), having already smashed its Black Friday forecasts. The e-commerce giant revealed it sold 64 items per second on Black Friday (28 November) as consumers raced to snatch up deals for products including the Kindle Fire, which was on sale for £99. It launched 3,000 deals, for which it raked in sales for 5.5 million products, and now it has turned its focus to netting Cyber Monday shoppers. Amazon has already kicked off its discounts ahead of Cyber Monday, with items such as LeapFrog toys, Sony 40-inch Read full story › Source: The Drum...

on Nov 30, 2014

By Jessica Davies Barclays has become the first UK bank to roll out a face-to-face video banking service letting customers communicate with employees from their mobiles, tablets or laptops. The 24/7 service, which will launch on 8 December, will be available initally to premier account members, who will have the option to speak securely via a video call to a member of staff at any time of day via their own devices. It will be extended to mortgage, business and wealth customers from early 2015, before being rolled out to all retail customers, and will automatically match customers to a specific member of Read full story › Source: The Drum...

on Nov 29, 2014

By Stephen Lepitak On the day that the internet’s most popular cat, Grumpy Cat, will debut her first movie on Lifetime, the chief executive and chief creative officer of JinglePunks, Jared Gutstadt has discussed the popularity of its Meow Mix music video from earlier this year. The Meow Mix video, a dance tune remix of the brand jingle, created alongside FCB Chicago and DJ Ashworth, has racked up over 1.5 million views on YouTube along since it was released in August. Read full story › Source: The Drum...

on Nov 29, 2014

By John McCarthy The UK has seen a further clampdown on piracy with internet service providers providing access to fewer sites as a result of a high court ruling. In its latest bid to prevent illegal file-sharing, the UK government has issued a ban on 53 websites -most of which are peer-to-peer networks. The ban will be adopted by the country’s six leading ISPs, Sky, BT, EE, TalkTalk, O2 and Virgin with the ruling bringing the total number of restricted sites to 93. However, as happened with the last ban in 2012, proxy sites granting users access to the services emerged almost immediately. Sites blocked include Read full story › Source: The Drum...