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LONDON, March 13, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --

Strength in the business travel market helps drive up global average room rate by 4% in 2011, says new Hotels.comHotel Price Index (HPI)

The relative strength of the global hotel sector can be seen as an indicator of a potential turnaround in the economic outlook with the average price of a room around the world rising 4% in 2011, according to the latest Hotels.com Hotel Price Index (HPI). The continuing strength in corporate travel, in particular, helped to push up demand and room rates, although prices were still generally lower than in 2005.

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The HPI looks at prices that people actually paid for their hotel room around the world. Last year, prices fell 2% in Asia year-on-year but rose in all other areas: 8% in the Pacific, 5% in North America, 4% in Latin America, 3% in the Caribbean and 2% in Europe and the Middle East. The overall increase reflected a continuing trend of steady recovery after a 13% tumble in 2009.

David Roche, President of Hotels.com: "The hotel sector is a good barometer for the global economy as a whole. Prices are up because demand for rooms is on the rise - a sign of higher levels of business and consumer spending. Local conditions, influenced last year by political uprisings, natural disasters and currency fluctuations, do have a major impact on prices but, overall, the momentum is there and the market is growing."

Natural and political events leave their mark

The Arab Spring protests and war in Libya hit prices across the Middle East and North Africa with rates falling in Egypt, Tunisia and Qatar. Travellers to Sharm El Sheikh, in particular, could find prices up to 30% lower than 2010. On the other hand, holidaymakers switching their holiday plans to southern European destinations in Italy and Spain saw substantial price hikes in some popular sunshine sunspots, such as Ibiza where prices rose up to 40%.

Asia was the only region to experience a price fall in average rates, down 2% on average, partly due to devastating natural catastrophes in two popular destination markets. The Japanese earthquake in March 2011 led to falling demand and room rates while Thailand's worst flooding in almost 60 years also triggered a cut in traveller numbers from July onwards and discounting by hoteliers.

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Vegau Inc. is pleased to announce the launch of its new website, Vegau.com.

(PRWEB) March 13, 2012

As a full-service internet marketing agency, Vegau provides a broad range of digital marketing services. In addition to featured services such as search engine optimization and website design, the company also offers pay-per-click advertising management, social media marketing, and SEO consulting.

Vegau is able to serve the needs of businesses of all sizes, from custom eCommerce packages for larger companies, to small business SEO packages for more localized firms. Vegau also offers a host of web development services, from landing page design and testing to full-service website design - both of which feature the benefits of Vegau's search engine optimization expertise.

About Vegau, Inc.

Vegau is a full-service internet marketing agency and Baltimore SEO company, featuring services such as search engine optimization, pay per click advertising management, social media marketing, and many more. The firm is local to Washington, DC, as well as Baltimore, Frederick, and Hagerstown Maryland, but also serves clients in the mid-Atlantic region and beyond.

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LOS ANGELES, March 13, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --Writers' Group Film Corp. (OTCQB: WRIT.PK - News) and its wholly-owned subsidiary Front Row Networks, Inc., a Los Angeles-based concert production and distribution company, revealed today that it has finalized the Company's strategy with MediaPlasm, LLC, a Los Angeles based company, to market its 3D product in the social web on a worldwide basis. The first project, to be announced soon, will be marketed and distributed, through social media and other outlets, by MediaPlasm and their subsidiary Connected Access on mobile devices and connected devices worldwide.

The social marketing plan will focus on engagement with moviegoers before, during and after their theatrical experience. "The goal is to make the experience as immersive as possible for fans, no matter where they connect to the social web," said Russell Carrens, CMO of MediaPlasm. "We have been working closely with Front Row Networks to craft campaigns that engage 'with' fans, no matter where they gather, Facebook, Meetup, Tumblr, Twitter, and others. To meet consumer expectations today, you have to create the tools that allow them to craft their own experience for themselves and their friends."

MediaPlasm is a Los Angeles based company specializing in marketing and monetizing branded entertainment in social media and the world-wide connected device ecosystem. The founders have a combined 60 years of experience in the entertainment industry and 15 years of experience in the connected device market with clients including Disney, ABC, CBS, Deluxe, Sony BMG, Fox, Technicolor, Microsoft, Universal, and Dreamworks. Founded in 2010 by marketing, entertainment and technology veterans, Russell Carrens and Patrick Roberts, MediaPlasm has developed a diverse portfolio of client projects ranging from campaigns for social content discovery, to connected marketplaces that leverage social media for new revenue streams.

"The popularization of smartphones and the introduction of tablets and other web-enabled devices collectively termed 'connected devices' have contributed to an explosion in digital media consumption. As these devices, including connected 3D televisions, gain adoption, consumers who access them will be looking for entertainment content," said Eric Mitchell, CFO of Front Row Networks.

Front Row Networks is a live concert production and distribution company which produces live concerts in 3D for initial digital broadcast into movie theaters in North America. Following their theatrical run, the films are then licensed to US and international broadcasters, pay channels, PPV markets, DVD and Blu-ray distributors, and sold on the internet as downloads.

Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements

Statements in this press release regarding the company's business that are not historical facts are "forward-looking statements" that involve risks and uncertainties. The company wishes to caution readers not to place undue reliance on such forward-looking statements and as such, speak only as of the date made. Investors are cautioned that all forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties, including, but not limited to, those discussed in the Company's latest 10-Q filed February 14, 2012.

Contact: Front Row Networks Wendy Haviland Phone:310.461.3737 info@frnetworks.com Website: http://www.FRNetworks.com

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Reporters Without Borders has updated its 2012 "Enemies of the Internet" listto include Bahrain and Belarus.

The updated list, which was released on Monday to mark what the organisation called "World Day Against Cyber-Censorship", still includes countries such as China, North Korea and Saudi Arabia from the previous year.

The Paris-based non-governmental organisation that advocates freedom of the press said that internet users in 2011 were "at the heart of the political changes in the Arab world and elsewhere".

In Bahrain, RWB said, the government "has bolstered its censorship efforts" in reaction to the pro-democracy uprising that began on February 14, 2011.

"Bahrain offers a perfect example of successful crackdowns, with an information blackout achieved through an impressive arsenal of repressive measures: exclusion of the foreign media, harassment of human rights defenders, arrests of bloggers and netizens (one of whom died behind bars), prosecutions and defamation campaigns against free expression activists, disruption of communications," the report said.

In Belarus, RWB said, "The Internet a mobilisation and information platform has received the full brunt of the authorities brutal crackdown on the opposition."

The report continued that "some 100 Belarusian journalists were interrogated in 2011 alone, and over 30 given prison terms".

Libya, where the government of Muammar Gaddafi was overthrown in a violent revolt, was removed from the list of "countries under surveillance".

"In Libya, many challenges remain but the overthrow of theGaddafi regime has ended an era of censorship," the report said.

Venezuela was also removed from that list, whereas India and Kazakhstan were added to it.

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