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New Delhi Television Ltd (NDTV) has filed an appeal against the New York Court’s dismissal of its lawsuit against Nielsen for the alleged manipulation of TV ratings and viewership data in February 2013, reports LiveMint. NDTV has refused to comment on the matter to the publication while Nielsen has told the publication in an email statement that they cannot comment on it since it is subjudice. According to the appeal filed by NDTV on May 15, 2013, the company has said that the trial court failed to acknowledge Nielsen New York’s ownership and control of the Nielsen process in India and around the world. It also says that the court erred by disregarding the fact that Nielsen is headquarted with its senior management in New York and thereby wrongly concluded that majority of its defendants were foreign. In February 2013, the New York Court had dismissed NDTV’s lawsuit against Nielsen on grounds of lack of jurisdiction, however NDTV claims that the court had wrongly concluded that its allegations were against TAM in India, when their allegations was actually against Nielsen New York, for which Indian courts do not have the jurisdiction. NDTV had originally filed a lawsuit against Nielsen in July 2012, seeking $580 million for gross negligence against TAM and misrepresentations, $810 million for fraud, $125 million for negligence and gross negligence against Nielsen, $125 million for negligence and gross negligence against Kantar, $790 million for breach of contract against TAM, $250 million for prima facie tort against TAM and millions more on various costs including legal fees and punitive damages to be determined by trier of fact during the legal proceedings. Timeline of the NDTV-Nielsen Lawsuit: April 2012: NDTV talks with TAM on the manipulation of television ratings. July 2012: NDTV files lawsuit against Nielsen for alleged manipulation of television ratings.  Do read the NDTV’s whistleblower account which includes details of interactions between NDTV and Nielsen where Nielsen had admitted to inaccuracy and rigging of data and had promised more investment in TAM to improve the process. August 23, 2012: WPP (parent company of Nielsen) says NDTV’s lawsuit is hypothetical and plans to sue NDTV for defamation. NDTV responded to this statement saying that WPP’s statements were a PR effort and that the case cannot be hypothetical since it is available for public viewing on the website of the Supreme Court of New York. August 24, 2012: In an interview with Mint, Sir Martin Sorrell, Founder and Chief Executive of WPP Group Plc, said that the lawsuit was not served properly, and that it was a mischief on NDTV’s part. He had alleged that NDTV’s lawyers had called up WPP and had asked if the firm would like to discuss a settlement. He also added that it is NDTV’s attempt to blame TAM for their performance. August 26, 2012: NDTV had refuted WPP’s claim of asking the firm to discuss a settlement. NDTV also said that Eric Salama, the chief executive of Kantar had sent a confidential mail to NDTV on 8 August, suggesting a meeting to “halt litigation”. August 27, 2012: WPP refuted NDTV’s claim that WPP is taking Indian market very lightly. WPP further said that they welcome NDTV’s decision to not want to get into a prolonged trial and also clarified about the issue over the interactions on the ‘settlement’ between the two companies. February 2013: New York Court dismisses NDTV’s lawsuit. NDTV plans to appeal against this decision in the New York Lower Court. May 2013: NDTV files an appeal against New York Court’s dismissal of NDTV’s lawsuit.

The Telegraph Media Group (TMG) managed to increase its operating profit last year, making £58.4m on a turnover if £327.5m. In the previous year, it made £55.7m. According to the financial statements filed at Companies House for the full year ended 30 December 2012, TMG's turnover fell to £327.5m, down 1% on 2011. Print advertising revenues declined year on year, but the company said it was encouraged by the growth in digital and consumer revenues, which "significantly mitigated this decline." Circulation revenues also declined year on year. The decline in revenues was offset by reduced costs, helped in particular by lower newsprint prices. As a result of this, and a continuing investment in digital development, the rise in operating profit, of £2.7m, represented an increase of 4.8%.It means that the publisher of the Daily and Sunday Telegraph, which is ultimately owned by Sirs David and Frederick Barclay, has continued to defy the downward market trend in the sector. Rival titles, such as The Times, The Guardian and The Independent, are loss-making. Given that the company has a staff of about 1,000 people, TMG's chief executive, Murdoch MacLennan, has clearly managed costs with commendable efficiency. Source: TMG NB: Though TMG filed its accounts with Companies House earlier this week, as I write, they have yet to be posted on its website.Telegraph Media GroupBarclay BrothersMurdoch MacLennanDaily TelegraphSunday TelegraphTony GallagherMedia businessThe GuardianThe TimesThe IndependentRoy Greensladeguardian.co.uk © 2013 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds

And not caring what Elton John says about any of it.

Robin Good's insight:Clipzine is a web app which makes it easy to collect images from any website page and to visually organize them into page-based collections.On each page it is possible to place as many as 24 pieces of content and to decide how large or small each element will be. The user can expand each imported element over two or more tiles and move it around to any position.It is also possible to use one or more tiles to add custom text and information and to format it professionally.One key practical use of Clipzine that can be helpful in testing out its capablities is its ability to create a visual magazine of any Pinterest board.Just go to the selected Pinterest board page, click the Clipzine bookmarklet and select the unique Clipzine option to capture "all" images available on that page at once.Once captured all the images in a "zine", click on Edit / Syling and then on the Styling button that appears above each page content. Now hover with your mouse on any image in the collection and experiment with the feature buttons that appear around and in the center of each image.The final collection, called a zine, can be saved, published on the web, shared on social media, embedded on other sites or saved to a PDF file.My comment: This is one of the very few curation tools that leverages a tremendously powerful variable: control of positioning and size of elements in a collection. This is very useful as it empowers the curator to go beyond the linear top-down list or newspaper/magazine sequence and to create a more varied "equilibrium" between the elements in the collection. Understanding how to use Clipzine is not as intuitive as one would like, and the UI, thanks also to the presence of unpleasant and distracting ads is not as clean and straightforward as I would like to be. Promising concept. Powerful visual control in the hands of the curator. A bit disappointing implementation and not so intuitive and simple to use (for now). Free to use. Ad supported.Find out more / Try it out now: https://clipzine.me/See it on Scoop.it, via Content Curation World

BEIJING - Appliance giant Haier has selected UM as one of its media agencies in China.

This week's Music Matters even in Singapore featured music performances at Clarke Quay, also home to UM Singapore's offices, which became a de factor green room. The UM team got into the swing of things, dressing up as rock stars with make-up, hairdos, accessories and all that jazz. The offices were abuzz with activity as artists milled about and technicians set up lights, camera equipment and audio mixing boards.

(By Apurva Chaudhary & Vikas SN) Earlier this week, Twitter introduced a two-factor authentication process through SMS, in a bid to strengthen the security of Twitter users after it faced high profile account hijacking last month. This process allows Twitter users to add a verified mobile number and a confirmed e-mail address in their account settings and enable the feature from their account settings. Following this, whenever the user enters their name and password to log in to Twitter.com, it asks them to enter a six digit security code which is sent via SMS to the verified mobile number, in order to confirm that the user is actually the account owner. The two step or the two-factor authentication process is a well known mechanism and is offered by various companies like Google, Apple, Microsoft, Dropbox, and Facebook among others in various forms. However, since Twitter is dependent on SMS service for verification, the two step authentication is currently not available to several Twitter users in India, since it currently supports only three carriers – Airtel, Tata Docomo and Reliance. This leaves out a lot of Twitter users on other carriers like Vodafone, Idea, Aircel, among others. We tried it on a Loop mobile, Vodafone, and Idea Cellular connection and when we tried to add setup our number, it gave us an message saying “Sorry, we don’t have a connection to your carrier yet.” The company notes that it plans to add other carriers in the future, however in the past seven years, Twitter has extended SMS service only to three operators until now. Twitter had inked an exclusive deal with Airtel in 2009 to offer Twitter on SMS service to Airtel subscribers in India, which seems to have been extended to Tata Docomo and Reliance Communications now. We are a little surprised on why Twitter hasn’t inked deals with other Indian telcos to extend the SMS support to their respective subscribers or else provided an alternative method for Twitter users in India (or elsewhere) to use this service. For instance, Google’s 2-step authentication process is also dependent on SMS but it also offer various other backup options like Google Authenticator mobile app,  send the code through a voice call, allow users to sign in through a backup phone, and offer printable backup codes among others. More backup options will provide a sense of security for users to enable the service, in spite of it making the login process more cumbersome for them. We hope that Twitter rolls out more options for users to receive the access code in the future. Problems With Shared Accounts Another problem with Twitter’s 2 step authentication process will be the lack of support for shared accounts. While this will not affect regular Twitter users, it will pose a significant problem to brand accounts and high profile Twitter accounts, where the accounts are usually managed by several people, who would therefore be needing access to the codes to login to the account. The current SMS verification process supports only a single phone number to send access codes. So, whoever sets up the 2 factor authentication for a brand account with their phone number, will have to keep relaying the access codes to their team members whenever they need to log in the account. This will probably lead to brands shying away from enabling this feature on their accounts, thereby not solving the hacking problem which Twitter is trying to address.

A couple of years ago I wrote about the medical drama faced by Malcolm Brabant, then the BBC's Athens-based stringer. He had suffered a massive reaction after taking a vaccine that was supposed to protect him from yellow fever. After an initial fever, in which "he was in a limbo between life and death", he went on to endure psychotic episodes that landed him a psychiatric hospital.Now Brabant, who has been in and out of hospital ever since, has written a book about his terrible experiences, Malcolm is a little unwell, which is described as a shocking narrative of his descent into madness.According to the blurb, the book "chronicles a Kafkaesque journey through insanity during which Brabant first believes he is the Messiah and later, the Devil." It goes on to say:"He imagines he is visited by guardian angels, close friends and relatives who died premature deaths, and who set him impossible tasks to prove that he was the Chosen One. At his lowest point, certain he is possessed by Lucifer while in a locked psychiatric ward, Brabant… attempts suicide in order to save the world."Brabant wrote a moving account of his sufferings in the Daily Mail in January last year. It explained the reason he took the vaccine, in order to go to the Ivory Coast to shoot a series of films about victims of the country's civil conflict for Unicef, the United Nations children's fund. And it detailed the initial reaction followed by hallucinations, episodes of psychotic behaviour interspersed with priors of lucidity. The illness caused him to lose his BBC job in Athens as doctors struggled to discover the right combination of medication to effect a cure.Meanwhile, his wife, Trine, was taking on Sanofi Pasteur, the pharmaceutical manufacturer responsible for producing the yellow fever vaccine, known as Stamaril. And many of Brabant's friends have rallied round to support him in his fight to secure justice from Sanofi Pasteur, which has denied any responsibility after holding an investigation into the vaccine batch used by Brabant.They include Geoff Adams-Spinks and Nicholas Dobrik who are launching a campaign. There is more information on the Brabant v Sanofi Pasteur Facebook page. You can follow events on Twitter. And change.org is hosting a petition, which you can sign here.BBCGreeceHealthRoy Greensladeguardian.co.uk © 2013 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds

Simulmedia hosts a periodic Salon Series in which key leaders in the advertising and television industries share their thoughts on some of the key issues impacting their businesses. David Cohen, Chief Media Officer of UM, sat down with Dave Morgan, Founder and CEO of Simulmedia, to discuss issues facing leaders in today’s advertising industry.

The recent B&C On Demand Summit offered insights into what is being done well, what we can do better and what still needs to be accomplished in the On Demand arena.