Liberty Global enters race for KDG
Liberty Global, the media group controlled by John Malone, has entered the bidding for Kabel Deutschland with a potential offer that would top a price tabled by Vodafone last week…
Four broadcasters in battle for FA Cup
A fierce bidding war for the TV rights to the FA Cup looks likely after four broadcasters submitted bids to the Football Association in the first round. Following the telecom…
Iran hardliners blame each other for loss
Iran’s supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, and his closest allies put on their best faces as they watched the presidential election results, praising the 72 per cent turnout as an “epic”…
Ecuador law sparks fears of media curbs
Ecuador’s Congress on Friday passed a divisive media law that could tighten restrictions on newspapers and television stations in what many believe to be a blow to freedom of speech.…
France lifts block on EU-US trade talks
©Reuters French President Francois Hollande France lifted objections against opening transatlantic trade talks late on Friday after EU ministers agreed to exclude cultural industries from forthcoming negotiations, a move that…
Football’s new channels are turning heads
Olajide Olatunji, aka JJ, was just another gaming-obsessed teenager, driving his parents mad with frustration by spending hours playing Fifa on his PlayStation. “They hated it. They used to hide…
Cinema chains get the culture bug
Thousands of British people will go to the cinema on Tuesday not to see the latest Hollywood blockbuster but to watch Pompeii Live at the British Museum, a guided tour…
The door marked exit in business and in life
©Getty Hours after Rupert Murdoch filed to divorce Wendi Deng Murdoch, his wife since 1999, he announced the end of an even longer-standing relationship. David Devoe, News Corp’s chief financial…
France rejects EU offer in trade talks
Karel De Gucht, EU trade commissioner Paris rebuffed a last-minute concession over its cultural industries intended to overcome French objections to the formal launch of EU-US trade talks at the…
Murdoch split is hard on investors
Two splits in one week is a lot for one man. On Tuesday shareholders voted to approve Rupert Murdoch’s plan to separate News Corp into two companies – 21st Century…
WPP suffers shareholder revolt on pay
©Reuters Sir Martin Sorrell, chief executive of WPP, endured a shareholder revolt over his pay on Wednesday with more than a quarter of investors either opposing or abstaining over his…
Digital hunter-gatherers
©Dreamstime While the multibillion-dollar data broker industry profits from the trade of thousands of details about individuals, those bits of information are often sold for a fraction of a penny…
What is your personal data worth? Not much
How much are a person’s data worth? Not much. While the multibillion-dollar data broker industry profits on the trade of thousands of details about individuals, those bits of information often…
Consumers seek to draw the veil back over their lives
At a recent talk in London, Google’s Eric Schmidt gave some advice to those worried about the increasingly online and digital nature of our lives. “There is an off button.…
How much is your personal data worth?
Explore how valuable your data are with this interactive calculator. While the multibillion-dollar data broker industry profits from the trade of thousands of details about individuals, those bits of information…