{"id":33532,"date":"2013-05-30T15:23:35","date_gmt":"2013-05-30T14:23:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/?p=33532"},"modified":"2013-05-30T15:23:35","modified_gmt":"2013-05-30T15:23:35","slug":"weekly-comms-news-round-up-300513","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/blog\/weekly-comms-news-round-up-300513\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly comms news round up 30\/05\/13"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>While Sabina is on holiday, here is my pick of comms news from the last two weeks via<\/span> @CisionUK<\/a>.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Yahoo on $1.1bn Tumblr acquisition deal: we won’t screw it up<\/span><\/a> by Charles Arthur and Josh Halliday via the Guardian<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span>
Yahoo promised “not to screw it up” as it formally announced its acquisition of the Tumblr blogging platform for $1.1bn ahead of the US stock market opening on Monday.<\/p>\n

The relaxed wording of the memo for one of the internet giant’s biggest acquisitions was echoed in the memo sent by David Karp, Tumblr’s 26-year-old founder, to his staff, in which he said “We’re not turning purple” \u2013 Yahoo’s corporate colour.<\/p>\n

Microsoft unveils Xbox One next-generation console<\/span><\/a> by\u00a0Leo Kelion via The BBC News<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span>
Microsoft has unveiled the Xbox One which will go on sale later this year.<\/p>\n

The next-generation console was shown off alongside a new Kinect sensor and a redesigned gamepad.<\/p>\n

The US firm described the voice and gesture-controlled machine as an “all-in-one” system offering games, live TV, movies and music.<\/p>\n

Twitter launches lead generation tool to help marketers<\/span><\/a> by Ishbel Macleod via The Drum
<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span>Twitter has today announced the launch of a new product to its range of \u2018Twitter Cards\u2019: lead generation.<\/p>\n

The tool has been tested using a handful of brands, with the tool now available to Twitter\u2019s managed clients; although the company has plans to launch the Card globally and to SMEs soon.<\/p>\n

Woolwich attack highlights power of mobile technology as a news source<\/span><\/a> by Emily Bell via the Guardian <\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span>
A man covered in the blood of his recent victim, still holding the weapons, explains to a passerby with a camera phone the motives for his appalling attack. Peppered with political messages and carrying a clumsy apology to “women who had to see that”, the bloodied man is not enraged that his macabre and twisted actions have been filmed, he is gratified. This is a 21st-century terrorist “press” conference, conducted on a pavement in Woolwich in the middle of a Wednesday afternoon. <\/p>\n

Facebook bows to campaign groups over ‘hate speech’ <\/span><\/a> by Dave Lee via The BBC News
<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span>Facebook has said it will review how it deals with “controversial, harmful and hateful” content after admitting current measures are not effective.<\/p>\n

The admission follows sustained pressure from campaign groups, advertisers and the media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While Sabina is on holiday, here is my pick of comms news from the last two weeks via @CisionUK. Yahoo on $1.1bn Tumblr acquisition deal: we won’t screw it up by Charles Arthur and Josh …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":320,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4371,5741],"tags":[77,97,442,743,1017,4126,4372,4487],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33532"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/320"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33532\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}