Precise Launches New Service - As the Growing Influence of Social Media on Mainstream Media Highlights the Need for Effective Monitoring

September 28th, 2009 SAN FRANCISCO - - Pioneering media monitoring company enhances offering with blinkx's patented search technology blinkx, the world's largest and most advanced video search engine, today announced a technology partnership with BurrellesLuce, one of the oldest and most trusted media monitoring and measurement service providers in the United States. BurrellesLuce's thousands of clients now have organized access to blinkx's growing index of over 35 million hours of audio and video.

September 21st, 2009 SAN FRANCISCO - ~ Survey of Institutional Investors and Sell-Side Analysts Identifies Information Direct from Companies as Most Influential ~ ~ Impact of Blogs, Social Networks Limited but Growing ~ Brunswick Group LLC, a global corporate and financial relations firm, today released results of an online survey of nearly 500 institutional investors and sell-side analysts in the United States and Europe examining if and how new media* plays a role in their investment recommendations and decisions. A key finding of the survey is that the investment community overwhelmingly looks to companies as their primary source of information relevant to their investment recommendations and decisions, with the influence of new media playing a limited, albeit growing role.

September 10th, 2009 LONDON - Precise, the UK's leading media intelligence provider, today announced the release of new metrics that will provide the PR sector with insight into audience reach and the value of their work with online and social media. Precise has a proven track record of providing advice and guidance on what media sources have the most influence on audiences and reputation, and this development has been eagerly awaited by the PR industry.

August 12th, 2009 GLASGOW - In the future social sites will cease to become a place on the internet and start becoming the internet itself. That's the key conclusion from an authoritative industry report, "End of the beginning for social media", published by social media agency Yomego.

July 15th, 2009 LONDON - - Social Media Metrics Monitors and Analyses Over 20 Million Blogs, 5 Million Forum Posts, and 30,000 Online News Sources, Social Networks and Microblogs PR Newswire (www.prnewswire.com/) today announced the launch of Social Media Metrics (www.prnewswire.com/mnr/prnewswire/38671/docs/38671-Social_Media_Metrics.pdf) across their EMEAi regions, a powerful new intelligence tool powered by Sentiment Metrics (www.sentimentmetrics.com/) that enables communications professionals and marketers to monitor, analyse and measure the impact of what is being said about an organisation, brand, spokesperson or competitor across the social media landscape. (Due to the length of the pdf URL, it may be necessary to copy and paste this hyperlink into your Internet browser's URL address field.

July 8th, 2009 LUND, Sweden and WASHINGTON DC - Precise Biometrics has been awarded orders worth more than 6,1 million US dollar to supply fingerprint readers and software to the US Government, as a step in continued deployment of Precise Match-on-Card(TM) in multiple agencies. Delivery will start immediately and the order will be delivered and invoiced before end of 2009.

June 3rd, 2009 PETERSBOROUGH, England - The Daily Mirror's cashback shopping website has won a prestigious award for bringing the concept of cashback into the mainstream. MirrorCashback.com [www.mirrorcashback.com/] won the Commercial Partnership category of the Association of Online Publishers Awards 2009 (2nd June 2009).

June 3rd, 2009 TORONTO - Launches New Products So Companies Can Monitor More Than Just Social Media Conversations Sysomos Inc. today unveiled two new services that leapfrog current offerings in the social media analytics universe: Sysomos MAP and Sysomos Heartbeat intuitively and elegantly offer real-time access to an extensive database of social and traditional media conversations, as well as detailed information about sentiment, geo-demographics and key influencers.

May 18th, 2009 LONDON - Precise, the leading provider of media intelligence services, and the PRCA, the trade association for public relations consultancies and leading in-house communications teams in the UK, have announced a partnership to provide PRCA members with access to Precise's services. As the PRCA's official Media Intelligence Partner, Precise will be the only organisation that the PRCA recommends to organisations for media analysis, monitoring and forward planning.

April 26th, 2009 LONDON - Precise, the leading media intelligence provider, announces the launch of its broadcast monitoring service. Whilst Precise has monitored and analysed the impact of print and online media coverage on behalf of leading corporate, financial, PR and public sector clients for a number of years, the company is now able to seamlessly integrate broadcast content into its range of monitoring and analysis services.

July 8th, 2009 Top media execs wonder how Twitter will make moneySUN VALLEY, Idaho — Major media executives are impressed with Twitter's growing popularity as a communications tool. They just can't figure out how the online messaging service is going to make money.

October 1st, 2009 LONDON - A new study warns against against glamorizing of celebrity suicides in the media, saying they spawn copycat suicides. Sociologists have proposed that clusters of suicides around the same time or geographical area may be caused by this copycat effect.

October 1st, 2009 WASHINGTON - The glamorisation of celebrities taking their lives may lead to an increase in the probability of widespread copycat suicides, warns a new study from Queen Mary, University of London. Dr. Alex Mesoudi has found evidence that the increasing reach and influence of the media, combined with a growing number of people assigned celebrity status, could increase the probability of widespread suicide pandemics.

July 25th, 2009 China launches Arabic-language TV channelBEIJING — Chinese state television launched an Arabic-language channel beamed to the Middle East and Africa on Saturday as part of efforts to expand the communist government's media influence abroad. The 24-hour channel will air in 22 Arabic-speaking countries, reaching a total population of nearly 300 million people, China Central Television said in a statement.

July 21st, 2009 MUMBAI - Tata Communications, a leading telecom and Internet services provider, Tuesday launched advanced ethernet services to help its customers experience high-speed, secure and cost-effective bandwidth. Ethernet is a widely installed local area network (LAN) technology.

June 17th, 2009 ON BOARD AIR INDIA ONE - Days after the alleged rape of two women in Shopian town of Jammu and Kashmir, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Wednesday said the government will take effective action against the perpetrators and offered to hold talks with all groups, including those outside the political mainstream, to bring peace and stability to the state. "It's a very unfortunate development.

March 20th, 2009 WASHINGTON - The media may unknowingly induce some people to justify cases of violence against women which appear in the press, according to a research work carried out in the department of Social Psychology of the University of Granada. The researchers claimed that the media often looked for the assumed "reasons or causes" that provoked the crime, "which leads people to look for a reason for a fact that should be unjustifiable in any case".

July 20th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Pakistan media Monday reported without comment the startling confession of Ajmal Mohammad Ajmal Kasab, the lone surviving 26/11 terrorist, about his involvement in the siege of Mumbai, his Pakistani identity, and handlers. Kasab named Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) commander Zaki-ur- Rehman Lakhvi as the mastermind of the carnage, and described in detail his and his nine associates' travel by sea from Karachi to Mumbai.

April 21st, 2009 LONDON - Singing sensation Susan Boyle's performance on Britain's Got Talent may soon go on to top the most-viewed YouTube video list. The 47-year-old had left everyone dazed with her jaw-dropping performance of the Les Misérables song 'I Dreamed a Dream' on the ITV talent show.

May 5th, 2009 MUMBAI - ENM, India's premier full-fledged electronic news monitoring agency, has bagged three IPL teams other than the league owners, IPL, for monitoring the matches. ENM will offer an extensive monitoring of all the matches for the season to the owner and the three franchises.