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Thousands of Tesco.com customer accounts suspended after hacker attack. More than 2,000 leaked usernames and passwords forced the retailer to suspend online shopping accounts...

Thousands of Tesco.com accounts compromised by leaked usernames and passwords leading to accounts being suspended.

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/feb/14/tesco-customer-accounts-suspended-hacker-attack

Tesco's online customer accounts have been hacked and more than 2000 Tesco.com users passwords were posted online and forced to deactivate their accounts, the hackers were able to access customers details and Tesco voucher details on Thursday. “We take the security of our customers’ data extremely seriously and are urgently investigating these claims,” a Tesco spokesman said in a statement. It is believed to be hackers who have stolen details from other web servers and testing email and password combinations. “We have contacted all customers who may have been affected and are committed to ensuring that none of them miss out as a result of this. We will issue replacement vouchers to the very small number who are affected,” added the Tesco spokesman.

- 2000 Tesco.com users passwords were posted online.

- Tesco had to deactivate many users.

- Hackers Passwords and usernames were posted online on Thursday.

I think this is a major loss to the company and could take long to solve this problem as more than 2000 users were effected. The security levels in this situation could be considered as low as hackers were able to get into the system, this causes customers to worry as their personal details could be exposed therefore Tesco's had to deactivate users for safety. The hacking could take several weeks to get repaired as they have now lost online customers and some profit.

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The Sun enjoys post-Christmas sales bounce with 8.3% rise. News UK title and sister paper Sun on Sunday add combined 301,643 to circulation in January...

The Sun’s circulation rose by 8.31% in January, the newspaper’s biggest gain since 2011.

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/feb/14/the-sun-post-christmas-sales-bounce

The Sun and The Sun on Sunday have increased their audiences about 8% in January, due to the post-Christmas holiday seasonal sales boost. A total of 15 of 24 national daily and Sunday newspapers managed a month on month sale rise in January. The Sun has received the biggest percentage rise sales since January 2011, numbers increase month on month and have been successful since then. "Our success in the digital arena, combined with a series of fantastic scoops gives us great confidence for the rest of 2014," said David Dinsmore, editor of the Sun. 

- Sales up 8.31% compared to December, pushing the newspaper well clear of the 2 million mark, with an average circulation of 2,213,659 in January.

- The Sun on Sunday enjoyed nearly as a big boost in January, up 7.9% month on month to 1,800,830.

- Sales of the Sun on Sunday were down 10.44% year on year.

Daily newspaper circulation figures:

The Sun

Headline circulation: 2,213,659

Month-on-month change: +8.31%

Year-on-year change: -8.14%

Saturday edition: 2,570,467

Overseas: 17,632

Daily Mail

Headline circulation: 1,780,565

Month-on-month change: +2.27%

Year-on-year change: -4.43%

Saturday: 2,450,437

Overseas: 64,831

Bulks: 89,997

Total UK paid-for sale: 1,625,738 (91% of total)

Daily Mirror

Headline circulation: 992,256

Month-on-month change: +2.80%

Year-on-year change: -6.26%

Saturday: 1,187,666

Overseas: 27,253

Bulks: 30,000

Total UK paid-for sale: 935,003 (94% of total)

I think The Sun has received the biggest audience since 2011 January to now as most newspapers are going into decline, whereas The Sun offers an online service for audiences to subscribe and still sell the traditional newspapers for other audiences. This is a good advantage towards Rupert Murdoch's company as the sales percentage and audiences are raising.

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Facebook 10 years on: how has the social networking site changed your life? Facebook reports 1.23 billion users and has shifted social interaction on a grand scale. Tell us how the social networking site changed your life...

Has Facebook changed your life? Co-founder, chairman and CEO of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg.

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/feb/04/facebook-10-years-social-networking-site-changed-life

The creator of Facebook Mark Zuckerburg has changed the way we socialise by connecting us with hundreds of friends. Facebook was invented ten years ago and statics show the increase of the older demographic audience becoming more active on Facebook than the younger audiences throughout the years. A report by Princeton researchers found that Facebook is an 'infectious disease' and suggested that 'we are slowly becoming immune to it's attractions'. They noted a 25% drop in the number of younger users, but an 80% in users with an age of 55 and above. Audiences use Facebook to share their information, pictures, videos etc to praise and share everything they want to post however Facebook can also have it's negative aspects such as people losing their jobs, relationships, friendship and more. 

- Facebook reports 1.23 billion users and has shifted social interaction on a grand scale.

- 25% drop in the number of younger users, but an 80% surge in users with an age of 55 and above.

- Has Facebook changed peoples lives?

'Tell us how Facebook has changed your life. Do you feel more connected or more lonely? Do you have closer or more distant friendships? What's the strangest thing that's ever happened to you on Facebook? Have you posted something you now regret?'

Comments:

busydoingnothing

04 February 2014 10:44am

This comment has been chosen by Guardian staff because it contributes to the debate:

Facebook connected me with my wife. We had been friends in our teens, living on the same housing development, but we lost touch as our families moved away and us with them. I'd not even intended to even get involved on Facebook but shortly after setting up my account, I'd found long lost friends and even made new acquaintances.

I am very happily married and without Facebook that would not now be the case, I'm sure

Chas Brickland 

04 February 2014 10:46am

This comment has been chosen by Guardian staff because it contributes to the debate:

The thing I love most about Facebook is that it has given me the opportunity to get to know people in a way that I would never have done without it and keep in contact with people I should have made more effort to see.

Like my Aunties and cousins or the people I went to school with who were likely the most influential and important part of my formative years, who through Facebook I get to speak to, catch up with, see them build homes and families and live their lives, again in a way I never would have without it - and without having to wait 40 years to run into them in Tesco! Or the people I studied with and worked with over the last 10 years, the people that keep me intellectually and otherwise stimulated, who inspire my future and march (or stagger) onward towards it with me. 

My point being - Facebook has become a ubiquitous part of mine and many others' lives. I for one am extremely grateful for this.

MartianR
04 February 2014 12:51pm
I only joined it for a while. Before I joined it, I was just me. Then when I joined it, I became curator in the museum of me. After a while I decided I didn't want to be a museum curator, so left. Now I'm me again, and I don't pray at the glowing rectangular altar quite as much now.

Overall I think Facebook has changed people over the years, as the target audience for Facebook has also effected the number users active this year. The younger audiences are more distracted from Facebook now as the older generation are getting to know it more and becoming the popular users. The younger generation have seemed to move on other social media sites such as Twitter, Instagram and Snapchat which are the latest social sites out today therefore feel free to be on that, than Facebook as their families are more likely to use it. Moreover Facebook has changed many lives of people such as posting negative things and getting a bad reputation out of it or people losing their jobs and getting into trouble.

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Daily Mail publisher reports that website's ad revenues increased by 48% to £14m in the final three months of 2013...

Mail Online: ad revenues increased by 48% to £14m

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/feb/05/mail-online-dmgt-ad-revenue-daily-mail

In the final three months of last year the Mail Online's ad revenues have increased by almost 50% making up to £14 million, as the Daily Mail Titles (print advertising) was decreasing. Mail Online, which is gearing up is to switch to a global web domain to further drive advertising revenue growth, reported 48% revenue growth to £14 million. The company said that this exceeded the £1 million decline in print advertising revenues, which fell to £53 million, at the Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday.

- Mail Online's ad revenues increased by almost 50% to £14 million.

- £1 million decline in print advertising revenues.

- Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday fell up to £53 million.

- DMGT's share price rose 4.5%, 43p, to £1.01p in trading as investors were encouraged by the update.

I think the Mail Online has decided to increase their revenues because their Daily Mail print advertising is decreasing. This is due to the fact many audiences are accessing the news online therefore would be using smartphones, tablets, android devices to read the mail online using apps and the Daily Mail's website. This could benefit the Mail online as they would have an increase of online users therefore increasing subscribers  however their print advertisement would be in jeopardy as audiences would hardly be buying newspapers any more.

Essay Feedback/Learner Response...

Development of new and digital media means the audience is more powerful in terms of consumption and production. Discuss the argument for and against for this view.

Grade: A- (Level 4) 42/48

WWW: Very well structured essay. Good points, backed up by quotes/examples and effective use of media terminology.

EBI: More Critical autonomy and more reference to the Arab Spring - rework an extra section on this with your own views included.

"The internet has given readers much more power, the world is changing and newspapers have to adapt" (Rupert Murdoch) This quote states that the new and digital media developments are certainly changing society and how audiences access the internet. Rupert Murdoch himself is huge individual in the media industry as he owns a big conglomerate called News Corporation mentioned above, he owns one of the popular newspapers called 'The Sun' which is also known as a news and tabloid media text. As online versions have developed audiences are becoming less interested in the print values therefore more audiences are subscribing onto sites which provide news as new and digital technologies such as smartphones are used to access these sites.

Furthermore, one could say that the audience are in empowered by the internet as censorship has impacted the audience and internet very much. I believe pornography is mostly watched by 40% of men and that these sites are mostly paid for to watch. As well as censorship, the media text also consumes the privacy and copyright content which restricts audiences from copying content of copyright as it is a big impact in our society. An example of copyright can be 'Napstar' which was created in 1999, and network which allowed to download free copyright music, this was later banned as it was a disadvantage to the economically industries therefore the audience do not have any control over the internet. 

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The Sun links up with O2 to offer Premier League clips with 4G deals. Publisher's Sun+ digital offering gains massive boost as it joins packages available to mobile network's 23 million UK customers...

Mobile network O2 is to offer Sun content including Premier League highlights as part of its 4G mobile packages.

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/jan/29/sun-o2-premier-league-football-4g-mobile

The Sun newspaper has made a deal with the UK's second largest mobile company O2 mobile operators to offer its 4G customers content which will be including Premier League football goal clips, this would transform The Sun and digital subscriptions offerings to a higher audience target. Furthermore as the football highlights the O2 subscribers would also get access to thesun.co.uk and its Sun'd mobile and tablet apps. "This is a natural fit for the Sun as we seek old friends and new audiences on a growing range of digital platforms," said David Dinsmore, the editor of the Sun. O2 is in a marketing war with rivals to get customers to sign up to new superfast 4G packages, and offering "must have" content such as exclusive access to the Sun's Premier League football goals is a key. "O2's 4G promise has always been to offer a range of exciting and exclusive digital content to our customers, so the true benefit of fast and seamless 4G can be experienced," said Nina Bibby, marketing director at O2.

- O2 has 23 million customers.

- The Sun+ digital service would be £2 a week.

- UK's biggest selling newspaper signed up 117,000 subscribers for Sun+ between launch on 1st August and 6th December.

- O2's 4G network currently reaches about 30% of the UK population. The mobile operator also offers content including its O2 Tracks and Priority Sports services.

I think The Sun has made a positive deal with the O2 mobile company as it would consume a larger audience meaning more subscribers to its digital Sun newspapers. The Sun has a wide content of football news which attracts the typical male demographic audience therefore knowing their audience can stream 4G videos of Premier League goal videos would attract a larger audience to subscribe. As 4G is known as the superfast broadband audiences would find this as a positive aspect to the net and social media too.

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One Direction named top global recording artists in new award. British boyband are the first winners of award by the IFPI, which records the popularity of artists across streaming channels, as well as digital and physical sales...

One Direction streams its way to the top. Photograph: Doug Peters/PA

http://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/jan/30/one-direction-top-global-recording-artist-2013

One Direction have been named the top global recording artists of 2013. The band, who became the first group in US Billboard chart history to debut at No. 1 with their first three albums, were named the most popular artists last year on behalf of the awards. Their third record, 'Midnight Memories', became the best-selling album in the UK last year, and featured two singles that both scored high in terms of online video streams: 'Best Song Ever' which reached up almost 200 million views on YouTube while 'Story of My Life 'received 100 million views. Furthermore Eminem was named the No. 2 global recording artist following the success of his eighth studio album, 'The Marshall Mathers LP 2', with Justin Timberlake into the third position after the release of 'The 20/20 Experience' in March 2013.

The IFPI top 10 global recording artists of 2013
1. One Direction
2. Eminem
3. Justin Timberlake
4. Bruno Mars
5. Katy Perry
6. Pink
7. Macklemore and Ryan Lewis
8. Rihanna
9. Michael Bublé
10. Daft Punk

-  US Billboard chart history to debut at No. 1 with their first three albums.

- 'Best Song Ever' which reached up almost 200 million views on YouTube.

- 'Story of My Life 'received 100 million views on YouTube. 

One Direction have become the most popular boy band in the UK and USA after appearing on the 'X Factor'. I personally think the band have been successful in their career of music and would be selling many records as they have a demographic audience mostly targeted at the young females.