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The BBC is turning to Facebook to overcome uncertainties around its news service in Thailand, which was temporarily taken off-air alongside other international broadcasters after the country’s military staged a coup in May. The organization is launching a “pop up” news operation that will dish up Thai, regional and international news in both English and Thai across the social network. The pilot will run for three months — it’s not clear if it will be replicated elsewhere in the world. The initiative has won praise from Britain’s Minister for Southeast Asia, and is certainly an interesting way to avoid the Thai junta’s clampdown on media….
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Aereo has had a rocky journey recently — it suspended its antenna and internet-based TV service just days after the Supreme Court ruled that it violates US copyright law. Chet Kanojia, Aereo’s CEO and founder, had pledged to fight on – and now the company has issued a letter to the lower court which argues that under the Supreme Court’s ruling, Aereo was categorized as a cable company and it is therefore entitled to a statutory license. Aereo uses a large number of tiny antennas to pick up local TV feeds and pipe it to individual subscribers over the internet, raising the ire of broadcasters who say…
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HotelQuickly wants to make last-minute hotel booking big in Asia with funding from games giant GREE
Jul10
on July 10, 2014
at 1:00 am
It’s no secret that online travel is a hot topic in Asia, with research showing a whole lot of optimism for the industry. And HotelQuickly wants to be a huge part of the rising popularity of online travel in this part of the world, with its service that lets tourists book deeply-discounted hotels last minute. HotelQuickly launched its mobile app in March 2013, and has scaled rapidly — to date, it has chalked up more than 300,000 downloads and 150,000 registered users, while more than 3,000 hotels have signed up with it to sell last-minute inventory. On average, HotelQuickly shows…
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