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- Sky hits out at BBC over web TV funding
- British Sky Broadcasting has accused the BBC of "riding a coach and horses" through the nascent market for internet TV by investing licence-fee payers' money in Project Canvas, a planned successor to Freeview.Canvas is a joint venture between the BBC, ITV, BT and Five that aims to bring internet...
- External links 2009-10-11
- Fox Business recruits talk radio veteran
- Fox Business Network has turned to a provocative talk radio veteran to boost ratings and advertising revenues two years after Rupert Murdoch launched his challenge to CNBC and Bloomberg Television.The US financial channel, launched by News Corp in October 2007, on Thursday confirmed it would simulcast Don Imus's syndicated...
- External links 2009-09-03
- 'Social' phones to reveal all about your caller
- Forget caller ID. A coming wave of "social" mobile phones is likely to tell you everything you ever wanted to know and more about the person calling you.An application called Robo.to, available in the fourth quarter on the iPhone and handsets that run Google's Android operating system, offers a...
- External links 2009-09-20
- Flu vaccine price war hits high street
- Asda, the supermarket chain, has launched a price war for the seasonal flu vaccine with plans to offer injections at £8 each, undercutting high street rivals and the price it offered in its own stores last year.The company portrayed the move as a way to ease pressure on "struggling...
- External links 2009-09-21
- Game keeps eye on second-hand sales
- Game Group is looking at the second-hand games market to drive revenue and profits as like-for-like sales fell 16.3 per cent and pre-tax profit dropped by two-thirds in the six months to the end of July.The specialist retailer, which sells games consoles, DVDs and software, saw turnover from second-hand...
- External links 2009-09-23
- French satirical website goes into print
- Bakchich, a French satirical website, is making a mockery of the newspaper industry's dash for digital.Buoyed by strong French demand for parody in print, the online journal has taken the unusual step of launching a paper edition.As troubled US titles shift to online-only formats and media moguls such as...
- External links 2009-09-27
- Lucozade hits the cold drinks road to China
- GlaxoSmithKline is set to launch one of its best-known consumer brands in China by selling the energy drink Lucozade through a Shanghai-based partner.The move marks a shift in strategy for the pharmaceutical group under Andrew Witty, the chief executive appointed last year, to spread risk and diversity by expanding...
- External links 2009-09-28
- Actavis launches challenge to Pfizer drug
- Actavis, the Iceland-based generic company, yesterday launched the most high profile commercial challenge in western Europe to Pfizer's best-selling and patentprotected medicine.The company said it had made a first shipment of 30m tablets into Spain of a cheaper variant of Lipitor, known generically as atorvastatin, which is widely prescribed...
- External links 2009-10-01
- Walmart cuts toy prices early
- Walmart, the largest US retailer, has launched its earliest Christmas marketing campaign, announcing last week that it would cut prices on 100 popular toys to less than $10.The reductions on items such as a Barbie Rapunzel doll, Tonka toys and Play-Doh follow a similar promotion on a list of...
- External links 2009-10-04
- Dechra revamps its pet food range
- Dechra, the veterinary products company, is to revamp its range of healthy pet foods as it taps into the growing demand from owners seeking treatment for animals with human-like ailments such as obesity, arthritis and allergies.Ian Page, chief executive, said the Stoke-based company planned a series of new and...
- External links 2009-09-01
- Reading into financial crises past, present and future
- Ghosts of financial crises past, present and future haunt this year's array of new business books. Many of the 200 or so titles submitted for the Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year award this year could have been divided into three categories: how it happened;...
- External links 2009-08-09
- UK arm of Joost put into liquidation
- The UK arm of Joost, the online video service founded by the creators of Skype and backed by big media investors, was put into liquidation this month after failing to find a buyer.The liquidation is the latest stage in the decline of the Netherlands-based company, which launched in 2007...
- External links 2009-10-14
- Microsoft looks to Windows 7 to make up ground on rivals
- The release of a new version of Windows, the core product of the world's biggest software company, is always a key business moment. Thursday's launch of Windows 7 is set to be more important than most.It comes in midst of a Microsoft overhaul of some of its top products,...
- External links 2009-10-18
- Planning for upturn hurts Autonomy
- The cost of preparing for an economic upturn, including a product launch, hurt gross margins at Autonomy in the third quarter, pushing shares in the software company down 8 per cent yesterday.Cambridge-based Autonomy, whose software is used by businesses and governments to search for and analyse unstructured information such...
- External links 2009-10-20
- Bing steals lead on Google with Twitter search
- Microsoft stole a lead on Google on Wednesday as its new Bing search engine became the first to let users search the deluge of tweets flowing across Twitter, along with similar status updates on Facebook, in real time.However, Google moved quickly to counter its arch-rival's advantage, hurriedly announcing later...
- External links 2009-10-21
- Johnson & Johnson to slash workforce
- Johnson & Johnson on Tuesday announced that it would slash 6 to 7 per cent of its 117,000 global employees by 2011 as it cuts costs to weather the global downturn and increase spending on new products.The move comes as the company sees a sluggish recovery from the global...
- News items 2009-11-03
- Zune to launch outside US
- Microsoft is launching its Zune entertainment brand outside the US for the first time, attempting to reinvigorate the music-and-movies service after failing to achieve its initial goals for the iPod rival.The first Zune music player was released in 2006 but in spite of several reinventions has failed to make...
- External links 2009-11-15
- Spotify US launch delayed by record labels' concerns
- Spotify's hopes of launching its online music service in the US are being held up by record labels' concerns about its ability to convert users of its free service to paying subscribers, according to music industry sources.The company, which has attracted glowing press and strong interest from venture capitalists...
- News items 2009-11-18
- Google and Apple face up for China fight
- Google is set to go head-to-head with Apple in China as the country's largest mobile operator prepares to launch a range of customised smartphones based on Google's Android operating system.China Mobile, the world's largest mobile operator by subscribers, will fire the opening shot in a battle for high-value subscribers...
- External links 2009-08-05
- Times and Sunday Times unveil membership schemes
- News International has unveiled a new model for The Times and The Sunday Times newspapers with the launch of a membership scheme that gives readers access to exclusive events and special offers in return for a £50 annual fee.The initiative, called Times +, is a strategic shift for News...
- External links 2009-10-05
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