Grayling to promote Northgate expansion

IT software company Northgate Public Services has hired Grayling as it looks...

Online restaurant reservation service Livebookings sticks with Brands2Life

Online restaurant reservation service Livebookings has completed its search for a full-service...

Livebookings in hunt for full-service agency as it faces increasing competition

Livebookings, the online real-time reservations service for restaurants, is looking for a...

Film and entertainment agency Romley Davies appoints Neil Ashurst from Game

Neil Ashurst, the head of UK PR for Game and Gamestation, has...

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Sun Chemical , the global producer of printing inks and pigments, has...

Data hosting company Verne Global calls in Johnson King to attract European businesses

The world's first zero-carbon data centre has called in agency support to...

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O2's parent company Telefonica is on the hunt for an agency to...

O2's parent company Telefónica Digital on hunt for PR and public affairs agency

O2's parent company Telefónica is on the hunt for an agency to...

Lifestyle and fashion shop Talk PR buys Beam in bid for tech growth

Tech agency Beam has been bought up by Talk PR as the...

Tech company aiming to emulate Autonomy brings in Dynamo

Technology company TouchType, best known for its keyboard app SwiftKey, has called...

Accommodation search website Wimdu calls in Diffusion for consumer push

Wimdu, the accommodation search website, has called in Diffusion after parting with...

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EMC , the cloud computing giant, has appointed Brands2Life as its UK...

Global cloud computing company EMC calls in Brands2Life for UK remit

EMC, the cloud computing giant, has hired Brands2Life as its UK PR...

AxiCom to promote wireless electric vehicle-charging initiative in the UK

A global technology giant that is bringing electric hire cars to London...

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Bite Communications has made two senior digital hires. Rachel Liu has joined...

Ketchum Pleon swoops for Red Consultancy head of tech David Vindel

Ketchum Pleon has poached The Red Consultancy's head of technology David Vindel...

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Porter Novelli has launched a report entitled Social Consumers in Europe, aimed...

Edelman snaps up consumer PR account for eBay-owned PayPal

PayPal has hired Edelman to handle its consumer and tech PR in...

PayPal seeks UK PR agency to kick off consumer awareness campaign

PayPal is on the hunt for a UK PR agency to launch...

TripAdvisor hires Edelman to handle its UK comms as it takes on critics

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TripAdvisor has hired Edelman to handle its UK comms, as it continues...

Mischief to promote 'visual browser' technology Aurasma

HP-owned software firm Autonomy has called in Mischief to publicise its latest...

Sarah Beeny's dating site calls in Wriglesworth for international launch

Mysinglefriend.com, TV presenter Sarah Beeny's dating website, has brought in PR support...

Mobile network operator Lebara calls in Fleishman-Hillard to raise corporate profile

Mobile network operator Lebara has charged Fleishman-Hillard's tech practice with raising its...

Fire PR creates spin-off agency Ember to handle tech clients

Fire PR has spun out a new boutique tech agency after bagging...

Game developer Namco Bandai calls in Exposure to launch Ridge Racer Unbounded

Game developer Namco Bandai has hired Exposure to reignite interest in its...

Everything Everywhere to cut comms team by up to 30 per cent

Britain's largest mobile operator Everything Everywhere is proposing to cut 25 to...

Hotwire joins forces with IF Communications to expand into US market

Hotwire has launched a US operation after recruiting the entire team of...

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Telefonica Digital , O2's parent company, has named David Nicholas director of...

Octopus Communications called in to boost HotUKDeals' profile

Money-saving website HotUKDeals has hired its first PR agency to launch a...

Game brief for Dynamo

A British board game manufacturer has enlisted tech PR specialist Dynamo to...

YouTube rival Vimeo appoints Nikki Thompson as European PR head

Vimeo, the YouTube competitor, has appointed its first European head of PR...

PRWeek columnist Anthony Hilton says web content 'forgotten'

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PRWeek columnist and London Evening Standard City commentator Anthony Hilton has argued...

Chinese telecoms giant Huawei calls in Fleishman-Hillard for mobile launch

Chinese telecoms firm Huawei has drafted in Fleishman-Hillard to launch its brand...

Sony UK hands consumer electronics business to Cake PR

Sony has hired Cake PR to handle PR, social media and experiential...

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Good Relations , part of the Bell Pottinger Group, has hired Fever's...

Comms directors engage less with social media than in 2010

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Directors of comms are less interested in what is said about their...

Chelsea Apps Factory brings in Diffusion Mobile to reach wider audience

Chelsea Apps Factory has called in Diffusion Mobile as it looks to...

Harvard in telecoms win

Telecoms provider Resilient Networks has called in Harvard to target IT heads...

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Bite Communications expands group.

Zeebox calls in TVC to promote integrated TV app

Zeebox, the brainchild of the developer of the BBC iPlayer, has hired...

Dynamo wins games brief

Game distributor WildTangent has called in Dynamo to raise its profile with...

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McAfee has appointed Hotwire to handle its UK PR. The software security...

Visa calls in Hill & Knowlton to challenge 'just a payment firm' perception

Visa has brought in Hill & Knowlton's technology practice to challenge perceptions...

EMC in hunt for UK agency to go 'beyond traditional PR'

Global cloud computing giant EMC is on the hunt for a new...

Online payment service Mobile Money Network calls in Speed

Mobile Money Network, the online payment service chaired by Sir Stuart Rose,...

Spreckley Partners wins Green Grid brief to promote efficient technology

The Green Grid has hired Spreckley Partners as its UK- based PR...

Symantec parts with Speed and Weber to hand six-figure account to Red

Security software giant Symantec has parted ways with Speed Communications and Weber...

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mBlox , the mobile transaction firm, has appointed Brands2Life for an international...

Video games publisher Activision completes comms shake-up

Global video games publisher Activision has completed a shake-up of its comms...

Social hire for Expedia

Global travel company Expedia has appointed Content & Motion as its first...

Hotwire snaps up Hitachi Data Systems EMEA account from Catalysis

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The data storage arm of Japanese electronics giant Hitachi has brought in...

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Kcom , the telecoms company, has called in Rocket PR. The account...

Green Grid in hunt for agency to promote efficient technology across EMEA

The Green Grid, a global consortium of companies, government agencies and educational...

Former BBC comms director Sally Osman to join Sony Europe

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Former BBC communications director Sally Osman is joining Sony Europe to lead...

Outsourcery picks Bite to push cloud as an affordable way to access software

One of the UK's leading cloud services providers has called in Bite...

Burson-Marsteller swoops for MHP's head of technology Ben Maynard

Burson-Marsteller has recruited MHP's head of technology and telecommunications Ben Maynard.

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Jabra, the global headset brand, has asked Ranieri Communications to manage the...

3 Monkeys swoops for Four Communications head of digital Phil Ryan

3 Monkeys Communications has recruited Four Communications head of digital Phil Ryan.

Social network firm that claims to have helped elect Barack Obama calls in Frank and Launch Group

NationalField, the Washington DC-based tech firm that claims to have helped elect...

PROs warn Facebook, Twitter and BlackBerry to 'limit help' to the Government

Tech PR professionals have warned that social networking sites must be careful...

Experian hires Ruder Finn to challenge perception over 'credit referencing company' tag

Experian has appointed Ruder Finn as its digital and social media agency...

David Cameron comes under fire as he threatens to restrict the use of social media

Prime Minister David Cameron has been rounded on by technology PR specialists...

Google hires Culture Group for PR drive to get more UK businesses online

Google has taken on an agency to spearhead a major PR drive...

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Confetti.co.uk , the online wedding shop, has called in Lucre to handle...

Edelman snaps up PR account for social customer software company Lithium

Social customer software company Lithium Technologies has shifted its PR business from...

PROs defend Twitter as British press blames it for fanning London riots

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PROs have been quick to dismiss press suggestions that Twitter was to...

CC Group in Euro app job

A company that aims to take on Google search on smartphones has...

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10 Yetis has invested in a start-up, The Online Video Company, to...

BSkyB wi-fi provider The Cloud calls in Harvard to support expansion plans

BSkyB's public wi-fi service The Cloud has hired Harvard as it looks...

Ogilvy grabs global account for Telstra

Australian telecoms giant Telstra is to split from Nelson Bostock, turning instead...

Xerox seeks UK agency

Global printing and copying giant Xerox is reviewing its UK PR account,...

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Harvard has won the UK PR account for IT security software and...

Nelson Bostock Group set for move into Asia

Nelson Bostock Group is opening a Hong Kong office this summer as...

Video sharing website Dailymotion calls in Proof to crack UK market

Dailymotion, the second largest video sharing website in the world, has appointed...

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3 Monkeys has become the retained PR agency for Getronics, the UK...

Lewis to help promote a mobile service for the world's poor

An international telecoms firm has turned to Lewis PR to help promote...

33 Digital to aid deal site

A web start-up that highlights online consumer deals has hired 33 Digital...

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Lava , the marcoms agency, has appointed BT senior digital content and...

Real Networks hires Mi liberty for revival

Real Networks, the digital media software company behind 1990s success story RealPlayer,...

EML Wildfire in games win

Online training company Train2Game has appointed EML Wildfire to 'put games development...

33 Digital MD Drew Benvie becomes UK MD of Hotwire Group

33 Digital MD Drew Benvie has been promoted to take over as...

Kaizo completes management buyout from The Argyll Consultancies

The top execs at digital comms agency Kaizo are due to complete...

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Acceleris Marketing Communications , a Yorkshire-based PR company, has been chosen by...

Sony uses Bite for 3D Wimbledon drive

Bite Communications' work with Sony to promote the first 3D production of...

3 Monkeys in cloud deal

Rackspace, a leader in the hosting and cloud computing market, has called...

The Red Consultancy and Threepipe to aid Ericsson mobile money service

Ericsson has appointed two PR agencies to promote its new consumer mobile...

Twitter appoints Rachel Bremer as European communications manager

Rachel Bremer, managing director of Spark PR's Europe operation, has been appointed...