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• Now it's Murdoch vs. the World as He Threatens to Sue the BBC

  BNET - 2009-11-10

  Besides threatening to block Google from searching his content sites, media titan Rupert Murdoch is threatening to sue the BBC for allegedly stealing his content, as well. Murdoch appears increasingly frustrated by his inability to erect a paywall around his newspaper sites. by David Weir

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• And in the real world....MySpace, Google, M&S, BBC, ITV, BT, Costa, Whitbread, Aviva, Channel 4, GM and Vauxhall

  BNET - 2009-11-05

  MySpace, once the centerpiece of Rupert Murdoch's digital strategy, has fallen "significantly" short of expectations and is jeopardising a critical $900m internet search agreement with Google.Source: The Financial Times The UK is "skint" and the next Government could be forced to raise VAT beyond 17.5pc as it sets about "refilling...

  Tags: MySpace, Financial Times, British Broadcasting Corp., iTV, British Telecommunications, Whitbread Plc.

• Freesat to air fresh ad campaign

  BNET - 2009-11-04

  The campaign for the subscription-free TV satellite service will focus on its Freesat+ and Freesat HD services. It will illustrate the benefits of pausing, recording and rewinding live TV as well as the immersive experience of HD TV. Breaking on Saturday night on ITV during Piers Morgan's Life Stories programme,...

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• Ultra-fast Trading a Risk-Myners

  ReutersUK - 2009-11-03

  LONDON (Reuters UK) - Speculators using computer-based high frequency trading to buy and sell shares could damage companies, the BBC quoted the financial services ministers as saying.With high-frequency trading, banks, hedge funds and proprietary shops use sophisticated algorithms to earn profit from market imbalances and tiny arbitrage spreads. Critics say...

  Tags: British Broadcasting Corp., Arbitrage, Equity, Financial Services, Investment, Finance, Oukbs, SEC

• BBC to slash management pay bill

  BNET - 2009-10-29

  The BBC's £79m pay bill for senior management is to be cut by a quarter under plans approved yesterday by the broadcaster's regulatory body, which will see more than 100 positions axed by 2013. Executive directors also face an "indefinite" suspension of bonuses as part of the scheme, put forward...

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• BBC to cut senior management bill

  BNET - 2009-10-29

  The BBC's £79m pay bill for senior management is set to fall by a quarter and more than 100 positions will go by 2013 under plans approved by the broadcaster's regulatory body. Executive directors face an "indefinite" suspension of bonuses under the scheme, put forward after the BBC Trust ordered...

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• BBC NEWS | Business | ING to divide and repay state aid

  BNET - 2009-10-26

  ING plans to make itself a much smaller firm Dutch financial services group ING has announced that it will divide itself into separate companies, splitting its banking and insurance businesses. Once it has been separated, ING plans to sell the insurance division. ...

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• Osborne Eyes Biz Credit Scheme

  ReutersUK - 2009-10-24

  LONDON (Reuters UK) - Conservative finance spokesman George Osborne on Saturday called for a loan guarantee scheme to boost business, saying a lack of credit remained one of the root causes of the country's economic woes.Osborne told BBC radio there was a "catastrophic" lack of confidence in Britain's economic leadership,...

  Tags: British Broadcasting Corp., Britain, Economy, Government, Vertical Industries, Conservatives, Oukbs

• BBC gives oxygen to far Right

  BNET - 2009-10-23

  October 24, 2009 LONDON: The leader of Britain's far-right party outlined his vision in a controversial television debut, which critics fear could help his whites-only party ease into the political mainstream. As protesters broke into the BBC headquarters, British National Party leader Nick Griffin feuded with panellists and a hostile...

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• Gabbling Griffin in the BBC bear pit

  Financial Times - 2009-10-22

  The BBC programme trail before the Ten O'Clock News promised: "Life. As You've Never Seen It Before." It was ostensibly promoting David Attenborough's latest, but it sounded like an elaborate in-joke. Either way, they got that right.This was not Question Time, it was a bear-bait, with Nick Griffin as...

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