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The Economist writes that economic uncertainty and faltering confidence of small and medium sized enterprises continued to depress revenues at British directory publisher Yell. Reporting a 10.6 per cent drop in first-quarter organic revenues, the directories publisher said it did not expect any significant improvement in either the second or third quarters of the year.

The award winning mobile application adaffix (www.adaffix.com) announces its launch in Belgium today. adaffix enriches the call experience by adding relevant content to calls in real-time. The innovative application automatically displays the caller name if the caller is not in the user’s contacts list. It also instantly suggests businesses nearby if the user cannot reach a business on the phone. adaffix accesses the necessary data to deliver such information through a real-time search in international directory databases.

Seat Pagine Gialle announced a partnership with Vivaticket, a company specialised in managing ticketing and pre-sales for quality cultural and entertainment events. Thanks to the agreement with Vivaticket, the 89.24.24 Pronto PagineGialle telephone service is expanding its offer to users, who will be able to purchase tickets for all the events managed by Vivaticket simply by making a call to the Seat PG service and making the purchase following a step-by-step guide by a Personal Assistant. A personal credit card can be conveniently used to pay for the service.

Telnic Limited (http://telnic.tel), the Registry Operator for the communications-focused .tel top level domain (TLD), announced that it has hired former Yell.com Head of Marketing Ian Bowen-Morris as Chief Marketing Officer. "We're delighted that Ian has joined Telnic at the stage when the benefits and services that a .tel can deliver to individual professionals and small businesses are really coming into their own," said Khashayar Mahdavi, CEO at Telnic Limited. "Ian's experience of and participation in the directory services industry will help Telnic strengthen its relationship with this important emerging channel."

Yell is introducing an activity-based working model to support the daily operations of its 700 strong UK team of on-the-road consultants. The move will see Yell end use of its 18 satellite sales offices throughout the UK and instead use Regus’ network of 140 strong UK business centres. The net annual saving to Yell is about £1.5 million.

 The innovation reflects the changing work styles of Yell’s regional field sales teams, resulting in their less regular need for office premises to work from. Driven in part by continual developments in technology over the last 12 to 18 months, Yell’s sales teams have increasingly been undertaking many traditional office based activities online, on-the-move, with the office network mainly used for team meetings. 



The award-winning mobile application adaffix (www.adaffix.com <http://www.adaffix.com <http://www.adaffix.com/> > ) announced its launch in the US market. adaffix enriches the call experience by adding relevant content to calls in real-time. The innovative application instantly suggests businesses nearby if the user cannot reach a business on the phone. It also automatically displays the caller name if the caller is not in the user’s contacts list. adaffix accesses the necessary data to deliver such information through a real-time search in cooperation with Yellowbook (www.yellowbook.com) in the US.
 

SEAT PG and Sky Italia have announced a strategic agreement aimed at making the communications capabilities of national television advertising available to small and medium-sized Italian companies, and exploiting the potential of SKY’s football programming as an extremely effective tool for local advertising. The deal will allow SMEs to advertise during Serie B football matches in Italy in the season 2010/2011.

Eniro has signed an agreement to divest its holding in Suomi24 Oy (S24) to Aller Media Oy and receives a total consideration of EUR 5.6m. Suomi24 is Finland’s largest social media, and has been a joint venture between Eniro Finland AB and Aller Media Oy since May 2008.

Seven years ago, AgendiZe was giving birth to its first Engagement Platform. Since then, they have been registering more than 35 million Monthly Unique Visitors and empowering over 2 million advertisers with its suite of Engagement features. To celebrate this successful adventure, AgendiZe decided to treat itself with a new company logo, which symbolizes the idea of a "one-stop-shop" for all Engagement Tools. In its newsletter, AgendiZe introduces its latest deployments in South Africa, Central America and Asia; talks about the importance of Online Scheduling today and showcases its  recent deployments with its Lead Optimizer Pack.