Nokia announce partnership with Zynga - CIOL Network
Nokia and Zynga announce a new partnership to bring Zynga's hit games to Nokia Lumia smartphones and Windows Phones during autumn 2012.
The announcement underlines Nokia's focus on delivering great, exclusive app and gaming experiences to Nokia Lumia consumers around the world. With 100,000 apps available today in Windows Phone marketplace, Zynga's Words With Friends and Draw Something will join other great mobile gaming experiences available on the Windows Phone platform.
The game is built for collaboration between friends -- one player draws a picture of a chosen word and the other must guess the word correctly before taking their turn at drawing. Players earn coins by guessing pictures correctly and can earn new shades of color to draw even brighter, more eye-popping pictures. Draw Something recently launched in 12 additional languages.
Words With Friends is a word building game that challenges players to create the highest-scoring words while playing against family and friends or random opponents. Players can be engaged in up to 20 games at once and are able to communicate with each other through an in-game chat feature. Words With Friends is a part of the With Friends franchise of mobile social games by Zynga.
"We are delighted to bring these two key games to Nokia Lumia and Windows Phone consumers. The Windows Phone Metro UI will deliver an outstanding user experience to consumers, adding more great gaming titles to our rapidly growing portfolio from leading publishers," said Bryan Biniak, VP, Global Partnering & Application Development, Nokia.
"Zynga focuses on bringing fun, social, and high-quality mobile social games across platforms and devices so players can enrich their play anywhere and anytime," said David Ko, Chief Mobile Officer for Zynga.
We constantly strive to listen to our players who help us focus on the platforms where they want to play. By partnering with top global brands such as Nokia and Windows Phone, we are able to reach more players with our franchise games he added.
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Nokia and Verizon Team Up with Mobile Spinach to Offer Users In-Line Offers - PRWeb
San Mateo, California (PRWEB) June 21, 2012
Mobile Spinach teams up with Nokia and Verizon to empower apps with a little touch of goodness. Nokia currently powers many of Verizon’s maps and applications, but with the current landscape shifting away from traditional ads, the two companies will utilize Mobile Spinach’s white label application to bring consumers in-line products that make sense to them.
Catering to a system where user’s location and time is taken into consideration, Mobile Spinach’s white label platform is utilized to bring consumers relevant products that are in-line with their current habits. This partnership will enable users to transact with their favorite local merchants right on their phones.
“It’s amazing for us (Mobile Spinach) to work with such an awesome company,” John Vitti, CMO of Mobile Spinach, said in regards to working with Nokia. This partnership will be an interesting look at how the mobile climate is changing from the user’s perspective, especially with what users are looking for on their devices.
ABOUT MOBILE SPINACH
Launched in 2010, Mobile Spinach is a mobile local commerce platform designed to allow local merchants to reach interested consumers. The company currently works with more than 5,000 merchants in 611 cities throughout the United States, and is continuously expanding its reach through high-level partnerships. For more information about the Mobile Spinach experience, visit http://www.mobilespinach.com.
Neo-Nazi hate groups 'make money from British corporations without them knowing' through YouTube ad revenue system - Daily Mail
Far-right groups generate revenue from BT, O2 and Virgin Media through Google AdSense
Experts say YouTube 'hiding corporate irresponsibility behind freedom of speech'
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Neo-Nazi groups are making money from firms like Virgin Media, BT and O2 by uploading YouTube videos which take advantage of the site's advert revenue sharing system.
Extreme far-right groups like Combat 18 and Blood & Honour are making use of the video sharing site's automatic addition of adverts to their videos.
Revenue-sharing deals in place under Google's AdSense programme allow YouTube members sharing non-copyrighted videos to benefit from adverts which appear in boxes to the right of their uploads.
Revenue generating: Far-right organisations like Blood & Honour are making money from large corporations through YouTube and Google
Google's AdSense programme aims to give funding to popular non-copyrighted YouTube videos
And with some of this advert revenue being directly passed on to the video owner, extremist groups are making money from large British corporations without them even knowing.
When Google was alerted this practice it was said to have deleted the videos, but according to the Guardian there is no indication that anything has been done to stop it being repeated.
One of the YouTube videos links to The Turner Diaries, a novel described as 'the bible of the racist right'
Groups like Combat 18 and Blood & Honour use YouTube videos to peddle far-right views and generate support among their numbers, as well as opposition and hatred towards minority and ethnic groups.
This goes directly against YouTube's user policy, which claims to strictly prohibit hate speech.
A Google spokesperson told The Guardian: 'YouTube's community guidelines prohibit hate speech, and we encourage our users to flag material that they believe breaks the rules.
'We review all flagged videos quickly, and we promptly remove material that violates our guidelines.
'Videos with ads showing because of content claims created by YouTube's automated content ID system are subject to the same removal policies after they've been flagged by users.'
AdSense allows popular non-copyrighted videos to join Google's partner programme and generate revenue.
As well as generating funds through ad revenue, the YouTube videos are also a platform for extremist groups to provide links to their own literature and other Neo-Nazi websites.
Far-right mass killer Anders Breivik is one of many thought to have received support from the Neo-Nazi online community
One of the links on one of the YouTube videos is to the Turner Diaries, the 'bible of the racist right' novel which has been linked to several hate crimes.
The trend is also worrying as the likes of Norweigan mass killer Anders Breivik are known to have received support from online communites.
Expert have accused YouTube of 'hiding its corporate irresponsibility behind freedom of speech', while others have criticised the site for appearing to condone the Neo-Nazi message.
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