FTSE 100’s chance to diversify
If you could buy futures on wise old owls qualified to become FTSE 100 chairmen, prices would be trending higher. At least nine posts are vacant or could be due…
Spain, Italy, Japan and Brazil show gains
People have become much more willing to pay for online news during the past year, according to a survey of 11,000 internet users in nine countries. The Oxford university study…
Government says it is in favour of GM food
©Rex Features Britain should embrace the benefits of genetically modified crops and push other EU countries to drop their opposition to GM food, the environment secretary will say in a…
World Food Prize to Monsanto exec
A top Monsanto executive has won the prestigious World Food Prize along with two other plant biotechnology scientists, throwing a spotlight on the role of genetically modified crops in developed…
BT power shift comes at pivotal point
Ian Livingston is quitting BT to take on the role of trade minister The first thing that BT retail boss Gavin Patterson did on Wednesday morning was check the new…
NBA viewers a touch down on football
Despite late-game heroics and all-star names such as LeBron James and Tony Parker, ratings for the NBA Finals are rivalling the peak of the late 1990s but still pale in…
Apple ebook court case nears final chapter
©Getty At the crux of the Apple ebook price fixing trial is the question of whether prices rose or dropped following the tech company’s entry into the digital book business.…
Sprint: tough terms
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Ofcom to probe BT and BSkyB channel clash
Ofcom, the broadcasting regulator, has opened an investigation into BSkyB’s refusal to let BT carry two of its key sports channels, in a sign of growing tensions between the two…
BC Partners to buy Springer for €3.3bn
London-based buyout house BC Partners has agreed to buy German publisher Springer Science from its private equity owners for €3.3bn including debt, in continental Europe’s largest transaction by a private…
‘New News Corp’ makes muted debut
©Bloomberg The publishing company created by the split of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp made a muted stock market debut on Wednesday. The class B voting shares of the “new News…
Liberty plans to offer assets in Kabel bid
Liberty Global is structuring a bid for Germany’s largest cable group that offers assets instead of cash in the hope of overcoming regulatory opposition to its proposed €7.5bn putative bid…
Dish decides against raising Sprint offer
Dish Network said it would not submit a revised offer for Sprint Nextel – a move that clears the way for SoftBank to proceed with its $21.6bn offer for 78…
Profit warning wipes £100m off SDL
The chief executive of SDL has vowed to turn the troubled software and technology company around, after a profit warning wiped nearly £100m off its market value. Pre-tax profit will…
Alcatel overhaul aims to cut €1bn costs
Alcatel-Lucent will reveal a restructuring plan to cut costs by €1bn and raise €1bn via asset sales to try to reverse the decline of the once mighty French-US telecoms equipment…