In his position as CTO, Kamran Ziaee will ensure the technical implementation of Sunrise's long-term investment plans, which will total one billion Swiss francs over the next five years, according to a statement on Thursday. He will also be responsible for network expansion and overall IT operations, ensuring Sunrise can deliver best-in-class network performance, an outstanding customer experience and short time-to-market. He will also be responsible for the implementation of new services and technologies, particularly with regard to the company's strategy in the areas of LTE and FTTH. He will report directly to Oliver Steil, CEO of Sunrise.

The 45-year-old has many years of experience in the ICT (Information and Communication Technology) sector, according to the statement: Before his appointment as CTO of Sunrise, he was Vice President and CIO at Unitymedia GmbH in Cologne, Germany's second-largest cable operator, which offers analog and digital television, high-speed Internet and VoIP telephony, from 2002 to 2010, and CIO Continental Europe at NTL Europe in Paris from 2000 to 2002. Kamran Ziaee has also held senior management positions in various IT and telecommunications companies in the USA.
 

According to SDA, the police announced on Wednesday that they wanted to speak to all the people whose details were found in the confiscated documents. The investigators want to examine whether journalists from the News of the World systematically spied on politicians and celebrities in order to secure headline-grabbing exclusive reports.

The scandal surrounding the newspaper first hit the headlines in the summer of 2006, when Prince Charles' office lodged a complaint about a possible eavesdropping attack on the heir to the British throne. The then News of the World head of reporting on the royal family, Clive Goodman, was arrested and sentenced to four months in prison a year later. At the time, Goodman emphasized that he had acted on his own initiative and without the knowledge of other editors. Andy Coulson, then editor-in-chief of the paper, which belonged to Rupert Murdoch's group, resigned, although he always emphasized that he had known nothing about the wiretapping affair. Coulson later joined Prime Minister David Cameron as head of communications. In the face of public pressure due to the reopened investigation, he resigned from this post at the end of January. (SDA)
 

Corresponding drafts have been received, confirmed a Commission spokesperson in Brussels on Thursday, according to SDA. It will now be carefully checked whether the amendments comply with all aspects of EU legislation. Following a meeting at expert level, the Hungarian authorities announced at the beginning of the week that they would be submitting corresponding proposals for amendments by Thursday.

Among other things, the EU had criticized the requirement for all possible publications to report in a balanced manner. The Commission also considers the registration requirement for foreign media to be non-compliant with EU legislation.

However, Brussels had no legal objections to the controversial Media Council. The spokesperson did not provide any information on when the examination of the proposed amendments is expected to be completed. In Hungary, the newspaper Nepszabadsag had launched a constitutional complaint against the controversial media law. (SDA)
 

Switzerland is and remains a nation of Skoda drivers, the agency writes in a press release. It is no coincidence that the brand, which operates under the Amag umbrella, has been voted price-performance winner by readers of the Swiss trade magazine Auto-Illustrierte for the 11th time in a row. This loyalty is an incentive and an obligation: Skoda has therefore almost doubled its dealer network to over 100 partners. To communicate this, DD Com has developed a key visual that is used in all relevant communication channels, for example as national and regional advertisements and invitation cards.

Responsible at Amag Switzerland: Carol Hochuli (Head of Marketing) and Dominik Egli (Advertising Coordinator). Responsible at DD Com: Daniel Müri (CD), Florian Brand (AD), Matteo Ferrari (graphics), René Bucher (text), Sebastian Mutti (image editing), Jean Pierre Kuhn (consulting management) and Sara Renzi (consulting).
 

The formats have been specially adapted to the reading requirements of the small screen, according to a press release. All articles can be read vertically or horizontally, depending on preference. Slide shows with pictures from the magazine complement the texts. The magazine is available to download from the iTunes Store every Friday for CHF 1.10 per issue. If you have both an iPhone and an iPad, you only have to pay once and can access the magazine on both devices as well as in the archive.

The magazine also offers advertising customers an interesting platform to address the mobile readership, the press release continues. In addition to traditional advertisements, animated formats and video clips can also be placed.

The printed version of the magazine will continue to be published every Saturday in the Basler Zeitung, Berner Zeitung, Bund and Tages-Anzeiger newspapers.
 

A 30-second commercial dramatizes the fact that enjoying these traditional Swiss specialities puts you in a good mood and gives you a heart-warming feeling of home by transforming a modern city apartment into a cosy chalet, including a lively musical interlude by Margrit.

To keep the cheerful mood high even after the main meal has been enjoyed, Margrit also plays her way into the hearts of soup lovers in cheerful 7-second reminders. The cantonal soup commercials can be seen in lengths of 30 and 15 seconds as well as in the 7-second reminder from February 2011.

Maggi cantonal soups 30' 2011 from Publicis Switzerland on Vimeo.
 

Responsible at Nestlé Suisse S.A.: Miguel Serrano (Head of Marketing Maggi) and Ulrike Henning (Brand Manager Maggi). Responsible at Publicis: Sacha Moser (CD), Viviana Chiosi and Peter Mauko Iten (AD), Andrea Zanzerl (graphics), Jan Krohn (text), Derya Derdiyok (FFF), Muriel Asté (Senior Brand Director), Olivier Pasche (Brand Director). Responsible at Optimedia: Nadine Müller (Client Service Director). Production: Manifesto Films, Reto Salimbeni (Director), Shannon Mildon and Daniela Berther (Producer).

Anyone who indulges in a steak at "Marlow and Sons" can then purchase a bag made from the skin of the animal they have eaten. The restaurant owner's wife, Kate Huling, is quoted on Welt.de as saying that they want something that people can enjoy beyond the food. "They come in, they eat, they leave and usually think about something else. With the bags, however, the animal is preserved and honored". Well, whether this is doing the animals a favor remains questionable. A little more certain is the fact that the economy can benefit from it - and that's something. According to Huling, local tanneries hit by the crisis and the New York fashion industry will benefit from the idea.

Incidentally, in addition to bags, restaurant visitors can also purchase belts, wallets and hats as well as sweaters made of wool and rabbit fur as soon as the respective animal has been eaten. Enjoy your meal!
 

In return, Scout24 Switzerland is acquiring a 15 percent stake in Jobs.ch. The transaction strengthens Jobs.ch's market-leading position and brings it one step closer to its goal of a 50 percent market share in the Swiss online job market, according to a press release issued on Wednesday.

Jobs.ch is taking over the domain, brand and platform of Topjobs.ch and will continue to operate the service under the existing name. The re-launch of the platform is planned for April 2011. Jobs.ch is also taking over the contract customer business of Jobscout24.ch and will continue to operate it on its own account. The Jobscout24.ch online job market will remain with Scout24 Schweiz AG, which will concentrate on serving individual advertisers in e-commerce. In return, Scout24 will acquire a 15 percent stake in Jobs.ch by contributing its own assets and purchasing shares. In addition, Christian Unger, CEO of Ringier, will join the Board of Directors of Jobs.ch
 

There is still a lack of clarity about the actual ownership of Basler Zeitung. According to Tagesanzeiger.ch, however, the role of Christoph Blocher as an advisor is becoming a little more transparent. Blocher always emphasized that he was mainly responsible for solving the problems in the industrial printing area of the Basler Zeitung Medien (BZM) group. As the TA is said to have learned from a well-informed source, Blocher favored the variant of a merger with AZ Medien in the only management seminar held with the BZM group management. AZ Medien publishes the Mittelland Zeitung in the header format and reaches around 400,000 readers daily. Together with the readers of BaZ's large circulation, this would reach a total of 600,000 readers in a geographically homogeneous area and could become the third major player in the Swiss press landscape alongside Tamedia and the NZZ Group.

Blocher made it clear that he wanted to give his biographer Markus Somm, who has since been appointed editor-in-chief of BaZ, a wider sphere of influence, as Tagesanzeiger.ch continues: AZ media owner Peter Wanner and later his son and designated successor Michael were to be given leadership in commercial matters in the merged company, in return for which Wanners were to hand over journalistic management to the BaZ owners by shareholders' agreement. In this way, AZ publisher Peter Wanner could hand over the third-largest Swiss publishing house to his son Michael Wanner, and the BaZ owners "could then influence 600,000 readers politically," as one insider puts it.

> Moritz Suter paid just over one million francs for the BZM

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Bruno Oetterli was CEO of Radiotele, which he founded in 1976, until July 2007. In this capacity, he was managing director of Tele News Combi (TNC), the station combination of major regional TV stations in German-speaking Switzerland, and for many years was a board member of IGEM (Interessengemeinschaft Elektronische Medien) and a member of the User Commission (Radionutzungsforschung Schweiz). Oetterli was also a lecturer at the Swiss Training Center for Marketing, Advertising and Communication and at other training institutes. In addition, he was responsible for marketing Viva Schweiz and Teletext.

Bruno Oetterli will begin his mandate at Goldbach Media on March 1, 2011.
 

The court ordered the Juso and its president and SP vice president Cédric Wermuth to immediately remove the image montage from the website of the Young Socialists and not to show it anywhere else. This decided the district court in summary proceedings in matters of personality protection already on January 19, as the media office of Novartis according to SDA on Wednesday.

If this order is not complied with, the defendants face a fine of up to 10'000 Swiss francs. The precautionary measures will lapse if no ordinary lawsuit is filed within 30 days. The corresponding lawsuit is in preparation, the media office of Novartis said at the request of SDA.
 

In the Hiltl restaurant, you can not only enjoy vegetarian dishes, but also watch them being prepared. The kitchen has a large window front. So you can be there live when dishes are being made. Ruf Lanz is currently dramatizing this message with a viral that is now being spread via Facebook and Twitter.

> To the spot on Facebook

Responsible at Hiltl: Rolf Hiltl (overall responsibility). Responsible at Ruf Lanz: Markus Ruf, Danielle Lanz (Creative Direction), Maren Beck (Text), Marcel Schläfle (Art Direction), Kristina Burch (Consulting).