News in Brief: Thursday 2 June
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Groupon Australia has launched its Stardeals group buying site in Perth. Stardeals is a shopping website that offers daily deals on local goods, services and cultural events. The site started operating in Australia on February 14 first offering deals in Sydney followed by Melbourne and Brisbane.
The NRMA has launched the next installment in the Insurance Never Without A Car Challenge. Users are to vote for either 'Bagpipes or Panpipes' to be played to contestants for an hour on Facebook. A second wrap up video will be ready by 5pm today. The final winner will be announced at 4pm tomorrow.
The Mobile Marketing Association has called for nominations for its Annual Global Awards Program, now in its 7th year, to recognize significant contributios within the global mobile marketing industry. Entries will close on August 12th and the finalists will be announced at the end of September. Winners will be selected by a judging panel of industry, association and media leaders.
NineMSN has launched a free Rugby League mobile app called NRL Insight, that runs on iPhone and Windows Phone 7. The app will offer users NRL coverage with content from Wide World of Sports. sponsored and is sponsored by Rebel Sport. It will also include NRL commentary, live scores, tipping, results and fixture information. It is available for download from the iTunes store.
Twitter CEO Dick Costolo has announced the social media giant will all its own photo-sharing service in a bid to remove the "friction" users experience when trying to add photos to the site. It is also intended the development will clarify content ownership, with users owning their own photos. Photobucket will host the photos on the back end, with Twitter owning the interface. Videos are still to be hosted by third parties.
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