Posts made in May, 2017

on May 31, 2017

By John Glenday Tesco, wounded big beast of the UK supermarket sector, is showing fresh signs of life after notching up a second month on the trot as the best performing of Britain’s big four grocery providers. Data compiled by Nielsen for the 12 weeks to 20 May 2017 showed that Tesco upped sales by 2.2%, well ahead of rivals Morrisons, Sainsburys and Asda, which recorded growth of 1.4, 1.2 and -0.1% respectively. As a result Tesco comfortably retained its position as supermarket top dog with a 27.2% share of the market over the quarter, Read full story › Source: The Drum...

on May 31, 2017

By John Glenday Controversial US comedian Kathy Griffin has been dropped as the face of bathroom products business Squatty Potty after taking part in a photo shoot during which she held aloft the bloodied decapitated head of a fake president Trump. Acknowledging that she had gone ‘too far’ in the stunt, Griffin sought to head off criticism from all quarters by filming a personal video message to her Twitter followers. In it Griffin said: “I sincerely apologize. I’m just now seeing the reaction of these images. I’m a comic, I crossed the line. I move the line then Read full story › Source: The Drum...

on May 31, 2017

By Benjamin Cher The Singapore Exchange (SGX), the stock exchange of Singapore and The Infocomm Media Development Authority of Singapore (IMDA) have inked a memorandum of intent to streamline access to capital markets for IMDA-accredited companies. This MOI will see lowered barriers for accredited technology and media companies to access capital markets, catalysing more high-tech initial public offerings and increase Singapore as an attractive venue for capital raising. The Accreditation@IMDA programme, which curates and nurtures promising innovative tech companies, will partner SGX in identifying and galvanising the financial ecosystem to support the accredited companies in their IPO journey. “Today’s collaboration between IMDA and SGX will provide Read full story › Source: The Drum...

on May 31, 2017

By Katie Deighton UNHCR, the UN‘s Refugee Agency, has strengthened its partnership with Google with the launch of Searching for Syria – a microsite dedicated to explaining the facts related to the ongoing conflict within and surrounding the Middle Eastern state. The responsive site features high-resolution imagery combined with UNHCR data, Google Search Trends and YouTube content to answer the five most widespread questions that people ask online regarding Syria. These are: what was Syria like before the war?; what is happening in Syria?; who is a refugee?; where are Syrian refugees going?; and how can I help Syrian refugees? It’s not the Read full story › Source: The Drum...

on May 31, 2017

By Benjamin Cher Bloomberg Media Group has entered into a video content partnership with Yahoo Japan to feature subtitled Bloomberg video content on finance, technology and lifestyle news on its site. This follows Bloomberg’s partnership with Twitter on a breaking news network. This partnership marks Yahoo Japan’s first foray into business video content, as well as Bloomberg’s first in videos with localised Japanese language. “In view of the demand from Japan for local language video content on global business and finance news, we felt it was important to explore an innovative distribution model so we are able to have broader reach across Japan’s mobile Read full story › Source: The Drum...