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http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jan/15/mark-zuckerberg-facebook-charlie-hebdo

Mark Zuckerberg defends censorship policies despite Charlie Hebdo support



This article is about Mark Zuckerberg supporting freedom of speech through Facebook however agrees that censorship is still needed to avoid outrage.

• Zuckerberg’s status update on 9 January promising “a service where you can speak freely without fear of violence”
• He was asked why he had spoken out about the Charlie Hebdo attack, but not about other violent events around the world, including in Iraq and Palestine.
  
  “It wasn’t just a terrorist attack about just trying to do some damage and make people afraid and hurt people. This was specifically about people’s freedom of expression and ability to say what they want,” said Zuckerberg.
• Although he took pains to stress that all terrorist incidents are “really horrible”, Zuckerberg said he spoke out about Charlie Hebdo because he saw it as an attack of freedom of expression, and so particularly relevant to Facebook.
• Zuckerberg said that Facebook resists breaking the law in countries purely on a point of principle of defending free speech.

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http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jan/08/apple-10bn-payouts-ios-apps-2014

Developers made $10bn from iOS apps in 2014

This article is about how Apple product owners purchased the most apps in 2014 helping the company gain $10 billion in profit.

• In January 2014, Apple said that iOS users had spent more than $10bn on apps and in-app purchases in 2013 
• Apple’s 30% revenue share of all apps spending means it earned an additional $4.3bn from sales of iOS apps in 2014, plus sales of its own range of iOS apps. 
• Apple paid out $10bn to developers of apps for its iPhone and iPad in 2014, taking its total paid out since its App Store’s launch in 2008 to $25bn. 
• pple ended 2012 having paid out $7bn to iOS developers, then $15bn by the end of 2013, and now $25bn by the end of 2014. 
• The company said that New Year’s Day 2015 was its single biggest day of App Store sales since the store launched. 

This shows how much individuals rely on technology using apps for business, entertainment and social media. 

NDM Summary

1. 12/09/14 Fault in our stars, 
2. 12/09/14 Petition for Obama
3. 12/09/14 Top 100 Youtube Channels
4. 15/09/14 YouTube stars and Facebook, 
5. 15/09/14 Game:Destiny- huge profit,
6. 15/09/14 iPhone 6 release
7. 22/09/14 Sexism at freshers week,
8. 22/09/14 website: Alibaba worth more than Google?  
9. 26/09/14 Twitter targets film advertising,
10. 26/09/14 Problems with iPhone 6
11. 06/10/14 Sky ‘saddened’ over death of alleged McCann troll
12. 08/10/14 UK viewers ‘spend five hours a week viewing TV, clips and films online’
13. 08/10/14 BBC iPlayer catch-up window extended to 30 days
14. 08/10/14 Last.fm made loss of £2.1m last year
15. 10/10/14 Cassetteboy parodies
16. 13/10/14 Can Twitter make money out of breaking news or is it a PR platform?
17. 23/10/14 Twitter changes: 20 hits and misses from the social network's history 
18. 23/10/14 Is UKIP winning on Facebook and Twitter? 
19. 23/10/14 Facebook pays no UK corporation tax for a second year
20. 23/10/14 Media jobs website Gorkana sold to Cision in £200m deal  
21. 7/11/14 John Lewis christmas advert 
22. 7/11/14 get over newspapers dying out 
23. 17/11/14Cost of pay for TV channels
24. 17/11/14Facebook introducing 'Facebook for Work'
25. 23/11/14 Social media to get a job
26. 23/11/14 Print in decline
27.  04/12/14 Twitter unveils new system for reporting abuse
28.  04/12/14 Google and Facebook dominate digital market
29.  04/12/14 Tesco joins retail stampede -social media
30.  04/12/14 Cancer research trends
31.  05/12/14 More than half of ads are digital
32.  05/12/14 Twitters reaction to politics 
33.  18/12/14 Reading print bids a farewell to print
34.  18/12/14 220 Journalists jailed
35.  03/01/15 Who’s taking control this year? Google, BBC, Facebook, or even North Korea?
36.  03/01/15 From YouTube to Facebook – will video be the one to watch in 2015?
37.  03/01/15 The virtues of Vice: how punk magazine was transformed into media giant 
38.  03/01/15 Arrested over twitter threats
39.  12/01/15 Developers made $10bn from iOS apps in 2014
40.  16/01/15 Mark Zuckerburg defends Facebook
41.  16/01/15 social media doesnt cause stress
42.  16/01/15 BBC news online to overhaul website and app 
43.  18/01/15 BuzzFeed launches its own 'public chat' channel in messaging app Viber
44.  18/01/15 Using Facebook at work 
45.  24/01/15 Social engagement now more important than TV ratings, says Fremantle boss
46.  24/01/15 Twitter encourages 'verified' users to stop posting photos from Instagram
47.  29/01/15 Seven things we learned from Facebook's latest financial results
48.  29/01/15 Bloomberg switches off comments in website redesign
49.  08/02/15 Twitters latest financial results
50.  08/02/15 Snapchat helps Daily Mail and Vice Media get on message with youngsters

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http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jan/01/st-louis-man-arrested-twitter-threats-police

St Louis man arrested over alleged Twitter threats against police



This article is about a man who posted threatening tweets on Twitter aimed at the police which he was arrested for.

• accused of 10 counts of making a terrorist threat, a felony punishable by up to seven years in prison in Missouri. The charges relate to 10 tweets that Valentine, 35, is alleged to have posted in December with the intention of “frightening 10 or more people”.
• According to the probable cause statement, Valentine “admits to using the Twitter user handle @jdstl314 and being the sole poster under that user handle”. The account has since been suspended and cannot be viewed. Police said Twitter suspended it on 29 December.

This shows how powerful social media is. People take to Twitter to express the way they feel and give their opinions, as Twitter is used so widely they can get caught out in a matter of seconds and there is no hiding from it.

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http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/jan/01/virtues-of-vice-magazine-transformed-into-global-giant

The virtues of Vice: how punk magazine was transformed into media giant



This article is about how a magazine called Vice became very well known with the media giants such as Google and HBO. This punk magazine aimed to get through to young people as they believed they could connect with them better than Disney channel or News Corp.

• But how? Vice, with its gonzo-style journalism and access-all-areas attitude (typical headline: I Went Undercover in America’s Toughest Prison), is not easy to define. Yet it has somehow come to define a new media age of shareable video content, mostly because of its success – real or perceived – among young people
• With 11 digital channels ranging from Vice News to Motherboard (“covering cultural happenings in technology”), Noisey (“a music discovery channel”), a food channel called Munchies, a TV studio and film division, and a record label, as well as the tie-ups with YouTube, HBO and China Daily, Vice has a more diverse business model compared with, say, Channel 4, which offers advertisers slots around specific content at specific times.
• Vice, which bills itself as “the coolest magazine in the world”, launched a UK edition in 2002 and now operates in 35 countries, becoming a multimedia company in the early part of the century.
• “It’s made by young people for young people. If our journalists are scared, that makes it into the film. What our journalists are feeling is a huge part of our vernacular.”

Vice will keep growing in my opinion as nowadays the younger audience wants to get involved as they are beginning to understand issue more and more. Vice helps the younger generation to engage with the news they provide be it in a serious or jokey way.

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http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/jan/04/youtube-facebook-video-year-ahead

From YouTube to Facebook – will video be the one to watch in 2015?
 

This article is about how 2015 is going to change how media institutions spend their money. There will be more merging with other companies and growing brands. Video was the theme of 2014 and will probably continue to be so.

• Expect more investments in 2015 from Channel 4, which has set up a growth fund to help support emerging indies who want to retain their independence.
• A couple of trends will continue that have been going on for some time. The most obvious thing is the demand for physical newspapers. The second is the rate of growth in digital may slow down and plateau.
• The biggest challenge goes back to the scale of newspapers. How much income is actually coming in and what kind of scale of newsroom can the publisher afford to run? Five to ten years from now will we have the same number of large operations in play?
• There’s no better time than now to be a big YouTube star: in 2015, the mainstream media will continue to recognise that these individuals have massive audiences, and the potential to move and activate those massive audiences. Someone like Grace Helbig is going to have her own late-night talk show on [TV channel] E! next year.
• Listening to radio through the television will continue to plateau, while internet radio will continue its solid, though unremarkable, growth.

Each type of media platform will continue to grow with a few innovations made, this will involve merging or investing in companies and buying ideas of each other. There will be massive competition in each platform especially TV.

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http://www.theguardian.com/media/media-blog/2015/jan/04/google-facebook-bbc-north-korea-control-media-industry

Who’s taking control this year? Google, BBC, Facebook, or even North Korea?



This article is about how digital media is changing significantly and that anything is possible in 2015, social media sites are converging and news stories happen to get around very fast. Social media is taking over the media institution.

• It is a reasonable assumption that in 2015 we will see a further convergence between social media platforms and media practice. As the owners of Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Instagram accept that they are not just “neutral platforms”, but actually shaping and controlling media, as well as owning and supporting a great deal of it.
• Netflix has been a powerful exemplar of how to both be taken seriously by venture capitalists and get a seat at the Emmys. Jeff Bezos had so much money from founding Amazon, he actually bought a newspaper (the Washington Post). Pierre Omidyar, the eBay billionaire, is so earnestly serious about creating a new type of news organisation that his various setbacks with First Look Media will not stop him.
• We are used to seeing a landscape which is divided between the big, global institutions and the small entrepreneurial start-ups. But we are still unused to the idea of true convergence: technology-driven markets that are fast-moving and fluid.

In my opinion I believe social media is taking over and this year we will see more innovation and possibly new famous apps such as snapchat.