IAB Australia today announced the appointment of Gai Le Roy as IAB Australia Programmes Manager, effective immediately. Ms Le Roy will chair the three IAB Australia Councils - Measurement, Research, and Standards & Guidelines - and take responsibility for driving key projects for each Council.
Seagate Technology (NASDAQ: STX) today reported results for the quarter ended July 3, 2009 of 40.6 million disk drive unit shipments, revenue of $2.35 billion, a net loss of $81 million and net loss per share of $0.16. The financial results for the quarter include $21 million of purchased intangibles amortization and other charges associated with acquisitions, and $85 million of restructuring and related accelerated depreciation charges. The aggregate impact of these items is $106 million or approximately $0.22 per share.
Nic Cola, Fairfax Digital COO, has been appointed as the incoming Chairman for IAB Australia.
Millward Brown, a global leader in brand, media and communications research, today announced its Dynamic Logic business has been engaged to deliver two pioneering cross-media studies and five interactive AdIndex brand effectiveness studies for a range of major Australian clients.
The original architect of response-driven marketing, Wunderman, has signed a deal with MIA International to deploy its QuickSites platform, enabling the leading advertising agency to build sophisticated mobile internet solutions in-house. With more than fifty years at the forefront of the advertising, branding and marketing industries worldwide, Wunderman has fully embraced the growing mobile medium both for itself and its extensive client list and QuickSites has allowed the agency to expand its mobile service offering.
Communications Alliance, the peak body for the Australian communications industry, today announced the industry has commenced its NBN Works Program.
Seagate (NASDAQ: STX) today announced it is now shipping its technology-leading Cheetah® 15K.7 enterprise-class hard drives into the worldwide distribution channel. As the highest performing, highest capacity 3.5-inch mission critical hard drive with best-in-class reliability for Tier 1 environments, the Cheetah 15K.7 drive is ideal for a wide range of server and storage applications. With the Cheetah 15K.7 hard drive, Seagate’s technology leadership moves firmly past the competition as it delivers the industry’s first 15K-rpm drive to reach the 600GB capacity point while providing record reliability of 1.6 million hours MTBF.
CumminsNitro Brisbane has trumped a strong field of competitors to be crowned 2009 IAB Awards’ Best of Show for its Queensland Tourism ‘Best Job in the World’ campaign. The entry, which also won the Brand Awareness and Positioning category, beat out a record number of entries to secure the prestigious title and has now secured its entry in the 2009 US IAB MIXX Awards.
AD2ONE, the global digital group, has won the exclusive online advertising sales business for online accommodation specialist HotelClub and The Inside Trader. HotelClub, the operator of multiple branded sites was secured following a competitive pitch which saw AD2ONE beat Mediasmart and several other companies; while Insider Trader, a leading stockbroking and trading website has replaced its incumbent agency Top Stocks.
Online music streaming is taking a significant step forward in Australia with mcm media today announcing the launch of the Digital Entertainment Network (DEN). The DEN is a high quality music audio and video player that is distributed across some of the nation’s leading entertainment sites and it will reshape the online music streaming landscape by offering consumers the world’s largest legal high quality free to stream music audio and video on demand.
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