By Agi Szabadi Manchester Metropolitan University Masters student Agi Szabadi has written a post for the Admiral blog talking about  tech start-up companies and how they encourage local economies to thrive. Today’s start-up companies are definitely the future of the UK economy. It might have been difficult to launch a new company in the past, [...]

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Having explored the predicted success of Google Glass and its potential to replace smartphones, we now turn our attention to the information-sharing media that mobile devices threaten to overtake. Just as Kindles and downloadable e-books are substituting printed books, some people believe magazines are becoming obsolete and being replaced by smartphones and tablets that can [...]

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Google co-founder Sergey Brin has recently referred to smartphones as “emasculating” in a bid to promote Google’s new piece of technology, Google Glass. The device is in its final stages of development and will be available to shoppers later this year. We’re taking a particular interest not only as a tech-specialist PR agency, but also [...]

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As expected in the world of social media, this week sees a new app added to the table as Twitter launches its newest integrated app, ‘Vine’. Dubbed as a cross between YouTube, Instagram and GIF, the service allows users to upload short self-recorded video clips online. The app is available from the iOS app store [...]

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Admiral’s chairman Stephen Waddington is celebrating the recent recognition of his work in social media at the UK Social Media Communication Awards with a new job role at one of the world’s largest communications agencies, Ketchum. He received the award for ‘Outstanding Contribution to Social Media’ following his success on the CIPR Social Media Panel [...]

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On Saturday evening the Twitter account for British Airways retweeted a racist and obscene tweet from a customer. The tweet reportedly remained on the airline’s Twitter page for up to an hour. The first that most followers of the @british_airways account knew was an apologetic follow-up tweet. British Airways may have a legal case to answer. Twitter [...]

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