Microsoft unveils new media-friendly Xbox
©AFP Microsoft has unveiled the Xbox One, a next-generation console that gives as much emphasis to live television and other entertainment content as video games. The successor to the Xbox…
Nasa tries recipe for Star Trek replicators
©Allstar Astronauts bored of the food they are served in space have cause for cheer: Nasa has started funding the creation of a 3D printer that will replicate items like…
Academic publishing boosts Bloomsbury
Bloomsbury Publishing reported a 16 per cent rise in pre-tax profits to £9.8m helped by strong sales of ebooks and a shift to higher margin academic and professional publishing. In…
UK Global Radio ordered to sell stations
Global Radio, which operates the Heart and Classic FM brands, must sell some of the local radio stations it acquired for about £70m last year from Guardian Media Group, the…
Sprint in late boost to Clearwire offer
Sprint made a last-minute effort to save its bid for wireless internet provider Clearwire, boosting its offer by 14 per cent ahead of a Tuesday shareholder vote that was likely…
Vodafone: crackling lines
Know that feeling when the crackling phone connection clears and the caller no longer seems to be oceans deep? Vodafone’s full-year earnings on Tuesday were like that. At first sight,…
Southern Europe’s woes take toll on Vodafone
Vodafone is to plough back a £2.1bn dividend from US telecoms group Verizon into its business rather than offer shareholders a windfall, after the UK mobile operator reported its biggest…
SoftBank grants Sprint disclosure waiver
Sprint Nextel has cleared an obstacle to negotiating a possible takeover by Dish, the US satellite broadcaster, after it secured a disclosure waiver from Dish’s rival bidder, SoftBank of Japan.…
Graceland put on the market
©BBC Elvis Presley Elvis Presley’s Graceland mansion and rights to the images of Elvis and Muhammad Ali are on the market with a possible price tag of more than $200m,…
Ugandan newspaper raided over plot claim
Police in Uganda have closed down a Kampala-based newspaper majority owned by Kenyan blue-chip Nation Media Group over its reports that high-level critics claim the president intends to hand over…
Mayer out to rewrite Yahoo’s history
With her $1.1bn acquisition of Tumblr, Marissa Mayer, Yahoo chief executive, is betting that she can do a better job than News Corp or AOL in integrating a young and…
Yahoo vows not to ‘screw up’ Tumblr
©AFP Marissa Mayer has promised “not to screw up” Tumblr, the lively blogging site the Yahoo chief executive bought for $1.1bn, as the New York start-up’s young founder told its…
Space industry’s hopes ride on ‘Major Tim’
©AFP The first British astronaut for more than 20 years has been handed a mission above and beyond his journey into space: to be the face of the UK’s £9.2bn…
Police search Evans’ office in Commons
Police have searched the Commons office of the Tory MP and deputy speaker Nigel Evans in relation to “a serious arrestable offence”, after gaining the consent of Speaker John Bercow.…
Tunisia has finally turned up the heat on the Salafis
©AFP Until recently, hardline Salafis in Tunisia held on to the belief that the country was a land of da’wa (preaching), not a land of jihad. The Islamist-led government elected…