Commercial WiFi provider The Cloud is doing another carrot-and-stick deal with a content site. Though time on a Cloud hotspot (available in 7,000 bars and cafes across the UK) costs…

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-- Sky: BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) has moved quickly to replace outgoing mobile head Tim Satchell, today appointing biz dev director Emma Lloyd in his place. Before Sky, Lloyd was MD…

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-- Universal: After relaunching HMV.com and setting up its still-in-beta social net GetCloser, HMV (LSE: HMV) e-commerce director Gideon Lask is leaving to be business development SVP at Universal Music…

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Just a fortnight after raising its cover price in London and the south east, The Sun is bringing it back down again, in a new round of price tinkering that…

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What’s a music label doing launching a comedy site? In time for the Edinburgh Festival, Warner Music Entertainment, WMG’s video wing, has launched MySpace Comedy for the social network, an…

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Despite the worsening economy, BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) is getting more customers to part with more cash. In the year to June, it added 92,000, beating expectations, while customer churn hit…

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-- Blinkx: Yet another product launch from the video search index - today it debuted a TV listings guide. Blinkx Remote merely links to programme pages on broadcaster websites. But,…

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-- Endemol: German interactive TV channel 9Live‘s international MD is leaving to become MD of Endemol’s German unit. Marcus Wolter founded Seegang Music and Seegang Media, as well as Viva,…

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-- Sky: BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) has commissioned an online-only weekly fashion video show for its Sky Style fashion portal, the site’s first dedicated web series. Wear It Well will come…

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Sky and Virgin Media (NSDQ: VMED) have duked it out over broadband access, now it’s down to the value-add. With yesterday’s announcement it is planning a monthly music subscription service,…

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Pretty soon, everybody will be offering a subscription music service. Latest is BSkyB; it’s secured Universal’s Total Music repertoire (which includes Amy Winehouse) for a new launch that will allow…

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In which universe would a production company buy the TV network that airs its shows? Thrown a hypothetical on buying an ITV (LSE: ITV) stake, Endemol CEO Ynon Kreiz told…

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Online secondary tickets marketplace Seatwave has made a high-profile appointment to its board. News Corp (NYSE: NWS) Europe’s chairman Marty Pompadur is joining as a non-executive director, and is likely…

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Some of our biggest media names are culling their ad sales staff, in what could be a sign of precipitous economic times ahead… -- Sky Media: The broadcaster’s ad sales…

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-- Reed Business Information: Times says Reed Elsevier (NYSE: RUK) will offer a loan to suitors for its on-the-block RBI B2B publisher - an indication the financial markets are not…

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Forty years after founding the company, Apprentice lynchpin Sir Alan Sugar is stepping down as chairman of his Amstrad company after completing the task of selling it to BSkyB (NYSE:…

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-- News International: More fall-out from the Boston Consulting Group report that advised axing the magazine unit and introducing a single management layer - The Sun and Times publisher is…

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-- CastUp: Samuel Pescara, southern Europe sales manager for Herzlia, Israel-based IPTV hardware maker Optibase, is leaving after six years to become vice president of sales for Castup, the Tel…

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Sky News has relaunched its Sky.com/News site following a beta test, to include more video, more community features and more personalisation. The news network has added features from the Daylife…

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NDS, the UK-based DRM and conditional access firm which is majority owned by News Corp, is now being taken private: News Corp (NYSE: NWS). is teaming up with Permira Advisers,…

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Six years ago, News Corp (NYSE: NWS). lost some 2 billion euros in its investment into the German media and pay-TV company Kirch Group that eventually went bankrupt. But the…

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More official powers for News Corp (NYSE: NWS) scion James Murdoch… after gaining hold of operations in Europe and Asia last December, he has been named the president of Sky…

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James Murdoch has, as expected, created a chief operating officer role for News International as part of a “streamlining” restructure brought about in response to a review commissioned from the…

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This has the potential to de-rail the rise of VOD TV as typified by personal video recorders. FT.com reports the European Commission is reclassifying pay-TV hard drive- or Ethernet-enabled set-top…

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News International will merge the back office operations of its News Group titles, according to indications of what will be contained in Boston Consulting Group’s (BCG) streamlining review of the…

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