SOUTH AFRICA
On his visit to South Africa for the MMA (Mobile Marketing Association) Forum in Johannesburg on 2 November and Mobile Monday in Cape Town on 6 November, Adam Pattison, vice president, Americas & EMEA at BBM Messenger, shared insights into chat or dark social and how this is shaping the mobile economy...
Jessica Tennant 20 Nov 2017
UNITED KINGDOM
EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND: Five months after Scotland voted against independence from the rest of the United Kingdom, the Scottish government has seceded - at least online...
19 Feb 2015
UNITED KINGDOM
LONDON, UK: British lawmakers have called for people who post racist and anti-Semitic comments online to be banned from social media sites following an upsurge in abuse...
12 Feb 2015
UNITED KINGDOM
LONDON, UK: Social media sites have become "the command-and-control networks of choice for terrorists", the new head of Britain's electronic spying agency GCHQ says...
5 Nov 2014
UNITED KINGDOM
LONDON, UK: People found guilty of internet "trolling" in Britain could be jailed for up to two years under government proposals, following a number of high-profile cases of abusive and threatening behaviour on Twitter.
20 Oct 2014
UNITED KINGDOM
LONDON, UK: A British man was jailed for 18 weeks after his campaign of rape threats and other abuse on Twitter against a female lawmaker.
30 Sep 2014
UNITED KINGDOM
LONDON, UK: British mobile phone retailer Phones 4U has collapsed into administration, putting more than 5,500 jobs at risk, the group said.
16 Sep 2014
UNITED KINGDOM
EDINBURGH, UK: Young Scots aged between 16 and 17 are getting the vote in Scotland's independence referendum but the so-called 'selfie generation' looks set to reject separation.
20 Aug 2014
UNITED KINGDOM
LONDON, UK: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will not leave the Ecuadorian embassy in London until he is guaranteed he will avoid extradition to the United States, his lawyer has confirmed.
19 Aug 2014
UNITED KINGDOM
LONDON, UK: English Premier League club Manchester United announced it wasbanning supporters from bringing laptops and tablets into the Old Trafford stadium because of public security fears.
14 Aug 2014
IRELAND
BIRMINGHAM, UK / CORK, IRELAND: Information technology is constantly evolving and how we communicate with others in the workplace is changing daily. So how does today's employee keep up? (Infographic)
11 Aug 2014
UNITED KINGDOM
LONDON, UK: Getting the latest news on a British government reshuffle once meant loitering for hours in Downing Street waiting for ministers to emerge from the Prime Minister's office and judging their fate by the look on their face.
16 Jul 2014
UNITED KINGDOM
LONDON, UK - Google has restricted access to a BBC blog posting and several British newspaper stories under a legal ruling granting people a right to be "forgotten" in search engines.
4 Jul 2014
UNITED KINGDOM
LONDON, UK: News Corporation Executive Chairman Rupert Murdoch visited the headquarters of his British newspaper division in London after his protege Rebekah Brooks was cleared of all phone-hacking charges in a high-profile trial.
27 Jun 2014
