Internet advertising to drive global ad spend: Zenith

Surging growth in advertising via mobile phones and tablet computers will help Internet advertising overtake television as the dominant medium for global ad spending by 2017, a leading media buyer forecasts. Zenith Optimedia, owned by advertising agency Publicis, said on Monday that it expects mobile advertising – via smartphones, iPads and other tablet computers – to more than double its share of global ad spending between 2014 and 2017, to 12.9 percent.

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Hackers ground 1,400 passengers at Warsaw Airport

Around 1,400 passengers of the Polish airline LOT were grounded at Warsaw's Chopin airport on Sunday after hackers attacked the airline ground computer systems used to issue flight plans, the company said. The computer system was hacked in the afternoon and fixed after around five hours, during which 10 of the state-owned carrier's national and international flights were canceled and about a dozen more delayed, spokesman Adrian Kubicki said

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