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Prague - Andrej Babis, a businessman and the chairman of the ANO movement, is the most powerful person in the Czech media world, according to the list of the 50 most influential people in the Czech media published in the January issue of the Czech version of the Forbes magazine.

Babis is followed by Petr Dvorak, director general of public service broadcaster Czech Television (CT), on Forbes's list.

Businessmen Daniel Kretinsky and Patrik Tkac, who have recently become the new owners of publisher Ringier Axel Springer, share the third and fourth positions.

In 2013, the most influential person in Czech media by Forbes's ranking was Adrian Sarbu, the then chief executive of media group CME which controls the Nova television group.

Babis has also made the fastest advance among media players, according to Forbes.

As the publisher of minor free daily paper 5+2, he was a novice on the list last year, but in 2013 he became the owner of media group MAFRA, publishing nationwide dailies MF DNES and Lidove noviny, and also acquired radio station Impuls which has the biggest audience share in the Czech Republic.

The acquisition of Radio Impuls is yet to be approved by the antitrust office UOHS.

There are eight entrepreneurs in the top ten of the list who are or will become media owners. This means that a large part of the media is being transferred under the control of Czech capital, which is an entirely new situation for the Czech society, Forbes said.

Last year's winner Sarbu resigned from the post of CME's president and CEO in August last year. He will receive a severance payment of $5.4m.

Ranking on the Forbes list is determined by the influence exerted by the particular media, which the magazine evaluates based on viewer ratings, audience share and circulation.

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Denver, Colorado (PRWEB) December 31, 2013

Zunesis, a CRN Elite 250 IT Solutions company based in Denver, Colorado, has designed, developed, and built a state-of-the-art Social Media Listening Command Center which offers clients the latest technology in social media customer service, active social outreach, and customer engagement. The Listening Command Center, which Zunesis calls zInsights Hub, provides fully outsourced social media monitoring, management, and research services to businesses, organizations, and enterprises across all industries and verticals.

The zInsights Hub leverages best-in-industry social media monitoring software coupled with their dedicated Social Media Analyst team to provide a comprehensive set of social media listening, crisis control, and engagement services in the United States. Organizations today want to leverage Social Media Listening Command Centers for brand reputation management, crisis communications, customer support, market research, marketing measurement, and consumer engagement - all in real time, said Steve Shaffer, Zunesis President and CEO. The zInsights Hub is a social media listening facility that combines our expertise with leading social listening technology and proven processes to provide our clients with a best-in-industry social media listening service.

The zInsights Hub monitors millions of online conversations across social media sites such as Twitter, Facebook, forums, and blogs to answer such questions as:

Social Media conversations have the potential to reach a much larger audience than ever before. While the channels for conversation on the social web have proliferated, a huge amount of data is becoming available that could be extremely valuable to organizations in fostering relationships with customers, developing new products, and monitoring their competition, said Dr. Evan D. Escobedo, Practice Principal of Social Business at Zunesis.

About Zunesis The vision at Zunesis centers around an intense focus on serving our customers and bringing value to their business through strategic IT solutions. In February 2013, Zunesis was named to the CRN TechElite 250 for the 3rd consecutive year as a best-of-breed solution provider with deep technical expertise and premier certifications. Our technical proficiencies and dedication to service help our customers transform their IT infrastructures to ultimately leverage IT as a strategic advantage. The Zunesis Social Business Practice offers social media consulting, monitoring, management, engagement, and research services to a variety of clients across all industries and verticals in the United States.

To learn more: http://www.zunesis.com/solutions/social-business/

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houseparThe aftermath of an out-of-control party in Christchurch. Photo / Kurt Bayerty_300x200.jpg

The 12-hour party was shut down by police in full riot gear shortly before midnight after the tenant finally called them in.

When the officers, wearing shields and helmets, arrived at the "large scale disorder" they had beer bottles hurled at them.

Two arrests were made and six on the spot fines were handed out.

Now, the young tenants have been left with an unenviable explaining job to their landlords, who are out of town.

The back-section Frankleigh St flat was yesterday barely habitable.

Every window had been smashed, graffiti scrawled over walls inside and outside the house, with large holes in the interior plasterboard.

A wooden picnic table was on the roof, and hundreds of empty and broken bottles and crushed cans were strewn about the yard. Pools of blood and blood trails led up the driveway.

Chockful rubbish bags were stacked in the garage from a half-hearted early morning mop-up operation at the front of their property which police officers forced on them.

Party co-host Hemi Carstairs blamed Facebook for spreading the party's message beyond his group of friends.

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Social media has gone a tad out of control in recent years, with a countless number of platforms inhabiting not only your desktop PC, but just about every smart mobile device available. At first, social media was almost solely just for mindless, tedious status updates about your lunch or where you were eating your lunch or what you wish you were eating for lunch. Then, people figured out they could make their ex-boy and girlfriends jealous by posting a bunch of pictures of a fun night out, even though the other six nights that week were spent watching Netflix alone. Finally in part thanks to Twitters character limitation forcing people to be creative social media found a much more acceptable optional destiny: quick bursts of easily accessible entertainment.

This compilation of the best Vines from 2013 will make you regret enduring social media just a little less throughout all those pictures of your exes seemingly having an much better, happier life than you.

Personal taste aside, there are some consistent trends among the super short-form videos:

If you want to get sucked into more short-form video compilations that add up to make a long-form video and then suddenly its an hour later and youre late for something, saygoodbye to your precious time.

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FPA VIDEO: Liberian Gov #39; t Seeks Media Control
Highlights of outgoing Press Union President Peter Quaqua #39;s farewell address. #39;

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