Well, it was nice while it lasted - the phenomenal online advertising growth of the last couple of years, that is. In the same week PwC and Enders cut their…

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Update: As of about midnight PST, the site is live. We’ll have reactions and a full review later on, after we’ve taken a closer look. Original Post: MySpace’s long-awaited music…

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TNS’ planned merger with rival German audience researcher GfK may be dead, but the company is not about to give in to WPP Group’s advances just yet. The UK media…

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-- Guardian: Guardian.co.uk will sell region-specific web ads in Singapore, with the expansion of Ad2One, an ad sales outfit that already sold its inventory in Australia and Ireland. The site,…

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-- Euromoney: The finance publisher said current turbulent economic times will have no impact on its business. In a trading update to the market, it said pre-tax profit for the…

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At a press conference this morning, T-Mobile said the first Google (NSDQ: GOOG) Android phone called the G1 will be available in the United Kingdom beginning in November, and across…

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It’s clear that BPI CEO Geoff Taylor has his hands full. As the head of the UK record industry’s trade association, he has had a long slog trying to get…

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It’s been a long-time coming, but the big five carriers in the U.K. have struck a deal with the Internet Advertising Bureau to push mobile advertising into a medium that…

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The proposed ad partnership between Google (NSDQ: GOOG) and Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) continues to gather opposition… The latest is the World Federation of Advertisers (WFA), which is pushing the European…

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The Project Kangaroo JV has left the door open to deals with rival VOD platforms that could see it take a proportion of their download sales. An updated description of…

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Carphone Warehouse has bid just under £450 million for Tiscali UK - a quarter less than the £600 million the Italian ISP hoped for, Times Online says. But there’s said…

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No announcement to market yet, but FT.com and others reckon Scotsman and Yorkshire Post publisher Johnston Press will name Archant top dog John Fry to replace its Tim Bowdler as…

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By Caitlin Fitzsimmons: Reuters has become the first news organisation to build a presence on news prediction web startup Hubdub. Hubdub, which is based in Edinburgh but has a mainly…

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Update: FT.com later told paidContent:UK there had been no increase in premium subs of the kind reported. Page views were 300 percent up Thursday and unique users were up 250…

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Considering the cataclysmic changes in the make up of the financial institutions, and some of the major ones being decimated, it is only logical that the supplier of financial info…

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Joost just soft-launched its long-awaited in-browser version. It’s throwing several errors (see the red bar in the screen grab) and crashed my browser eight times in a row but, with…

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Daily Mail (LSE: DMGT) & General Trust is bringing together its national Associated Newspapers and regional Northcliffe Media divisions under a new name, “A&N Media”. Both units will continue to…

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A week after AOL unveiled its new-look front page with lifestreaming and e-mail aggregation, Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) is starting limited random beta tests of new home pages—and we mean limited—to…

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Virgin Media (NSDQ: VMED) CEO Neil Berkett adamantly rejected the idea of unplugging customers over anything to do with piracy. Berkett addressed the controversial subject at the Goldman Sachs Communacopia…

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-- NBC: BT (NYSE: BT) Vision has struck a deal to make NBC Universal (NYSE: GE) movies available for hi-definition VOD on the IPTV platform. The service is available to…

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Spainish media conglomerate Prisa has received a number of preliminary offers for its satellite TV business Digital Plus. According to the FT.com, “a person familiar with the process” put the…

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Original: WSJ.com may have stopped running content from financial commentary provider BreakingViews.com, but Telegraph Media Group will now buy the service in for both its Telegraph.co.uk site and daily newspaper.…

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Dailymotion is continuing its steady march to legitimacy, signing with three French media rightsholders to legally use their material online. It’s won licenses from The Society of Dramatic Authors and…

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Hope springs eternal in music, and it seems, in the music industry as well. Jean Bernard Levy, the CEO of Vivendi (EPA: VIV) (which owns the biggest label Universal Music…

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-- Trinity Mirror: Mark Hollinshead has been appointed the new managing director of Trinity Mirror’s (LSE: TNI) nationals division, combining his duties of currently overseeing Scottish Daily Record and Sunday…

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