-- NI appoints digital business director: Tiscali commercial and media director Alex Hole is moving over to News International where he has been recently appointed to head up its recently…

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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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After Joost, BT (NYSE: BT) Vision, Lovefilm, TV producers umbrella PACT and advertising body IPA, Tiscali is the latest to see “significant issues and competition concerns” in Project Kangaroo. UK…

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Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) - thought to have been the likeliest candidate to buy on-the-block ISP Tiscali - has pulled out of the running for the whole of the company, leaving…

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-- Tiscali: Smack in the middle of trying to sell itself, Tiscali’s chief financial officer Massimo Cristofori is leaving. Instead, finance managers will report directly to CEO Mario Rossi, Thomson…

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Tiscali’s sale appears to have garnered interest from a gamut of first-round bidders. Vodafone (NYSE: VOD), BT (NYSE: BT), Carphone Warehouse, BSkyB (NYSE: BSY), Swisscom’s Fastweb and Wind all put…

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-- Voda, Orange, BSkyB Eye Tiscali Acquisition - Reports: FT.com has added Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) to the unsubstantiated list of companies interested in buying on-the-block Italian broadband/telco/IPTV group Tiscali, which…

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- Sportingo: While some continue to wonder whether user-generated content-dependent sites should pay their contributors, sport fan editorial site Sportingo has decided to give away that money to a charitable…

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- Independent owner: Irish telecoms tycoon Denis O’Brien plans to mount a full takeover bid for Tony O’Reilly’s Independent News & Media “in the coming weeks” and sell The Independent,…

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Update: IPTV service BT (NYSE: BT) Vision is planning to take its range of on-demand programming on to the web, we understand. A good source tells us the service will…

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Tiscali has appointed board member Mario Rosso its new CEO after the resignation of Tommaso Pompei yesterday - and it looks like his main task will be to steer the…

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- BBC P2P: A BBC R&D team is working with broadcasters, universities and developers across Europe on P2P Next, a continent-wide initiative to build a legal, cross-platform P2P system based…

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The drive to make ISPs more responsible for policing digital piracy continues full steam. The FT reports that next week the government plans to unveil in a green paper on…

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Tiscali’s CEO expects to sell the business to bigger rivals within two years. Tommaso Pompei told FT.com he saw few acquisition targets for the company so it’s more likely Tiscali…

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Italian broadband provider Tiscali is planning to roll out a UK mobile phone service in the last three months of 2008, according to Telegraph.co.uk. It’s currently in discussions with the…

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The growth in on-demand TV is not yet making enough money to offset the decline in traditional linear channels, Virgin Media (NSDQ: VMED) has warned. Malcolm Wall, CEO of the…

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It’s been a long time coming - now Orange has pushed the launch of its UK IPTV service back in to next year. The telco told IBC conference delegates at…

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UK competitiveness minister Stephen Timms wants telecoms companies to invest in faster broadband networks, warning that current speeds could imperil the country’s economy. Timms who has identified broadband as a…

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Could Tiscali be bought? The broadband, IPTV and telephony provider is “being courted by about 10 potential buyers, four of which have made ‘concrete’ moves”, reports newspaper MF in its…

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- Tiscali: Tiscali and Carphone Warehouse may have aired concern about BBC’s P2P iPlayer “sucking up” bandwidth in August. But maybe you can look for your own clues in the…

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The Raindance Film Festival, Britain’s answer to the Sundance independent movie fest, has done a deal to show six of its showcase movies on Tiscali’s website.  The ISP is a…

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Some industry types are starting to use military lexicon to describe what they see as the looming possibility internet service providers will force broadcasters to cough up cash for online…

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Tiscali (BIT:TIS) today reported H1 revenues of 393.1 million euros (£269.2 million), a 24 percent increase on the same period a year ago. It said growth was largely driven by…

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Tiscali (BIT:TIS) has taken a further step to expanding Homechoice, the former London-based IPTV provider, in to a nationwide service. The Italian ISP has made Tiscali TV, its product offering…

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British telcos are way behind their continental counterparts in rolling out TV-over-broadband services, according to a new analyst report that criticizes a “lackadaisical approach” to IPTV strategy. Screen Digest’s review…

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