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- BT Vision chief aims to recreate his Beckham coup
- The former barrister who masterminded the deal that put David Beckham's wedding photographs in OK! magazine is now trying to turn BT's fledgling pay-television service into a mass-market phenomenon.BT Vision chief executive Marc Watson gave OK! its best-selling print run in 1999 with the England footballer's marriage photographs when...
- News items 2009-10-11
- Berlusconi escapes censure on media
- Silvio Berlusconi, the Italian prime minister and media tycoon, narrowly escaped condemnation by the European parliament on Wednesday when MEPs rejected a motion deploring a lack of media freedom in Italy.By 338 votes to 335 with 13 abstentions, Mr Berlusconi's Italian supporters and other centre-right MEPs threw out a...
- News items 2009-10-21
- Murdoch ahead in race for Travel Channel
- Rupert Murdoch's News Corp has taken the lead in the $800m-plus auction for the Travel Channel, in a twist to a process that has underscored the revival in media moguls' confidence on the industry outlook.Cox Communications, which is looking to sell a controlling stake of about 65 per cent,...
- News items 2009-10-21
- Branson hits BSkyB's hold on pay-TV content
- Sir Richard Branson, founder of the Virgin Group, has attacked Rupert Murdoch's vast media network over the dominance of British Sky Broadcasting in the UK's pay television market.Writing on FT.com on Friday, Sir Richard likens BSkyB to British Airways in 1990, when the airline held exclusive rights to flying...
- News items 2009-10-22
- 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
- Branson to fund health push with loan facility
- Sir Richard Branson has secured an $80m loan facility to fund fresh deals in financial services and healthcare in exchange for pledging part of his stake in Virgin Media to Credit Suisse.The "cap and collar" agreement would hedge the billionaire entrepreneur's exposure on about 2.5 per cent of the...
- External links 2009-09-10
- Murdoch predicts death of print unions
- More than 20 years after he battled print labour unions at his Wapping newspaper plant, Rupert Murdoch hailed electronic reading devices as the death knell of unions.Devices such as Amazon's Kindle and Sony's Reader may take 20 years to displace newsprint, the News Corp chairman said at Goldman Sachs'...
- External links 2009-09-15
- Murdoch tabloid swings to Tories
- Rupert Murdoch's Sun newspaper has switched its support from the Labour government it is credited with helping to sweep to power in 1997 to back the Conservative party in next year's general election.The UK's top-selling daily dealt the blow the morning after Gordon Brown, prime minister, delivered a speech...
- External links 2009-09-30
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- The Weight's Over: Should Fat People Pay More for Health Insurance?
- The Weight's Over: Should Fat People Pay More for Health Insurance?I'm all for encouraging healthy behaviourOvereating and smoking are voluntary behaviors, and they are not the tobacco company's or food company's fault. If I were you boss and saw this kind of behavior (always blaming someone else for something...
- Discussion threads 2007-09-13
- Leading Clever People
- Leading Clever PeopleRE: Leading Clever PeopleLeading clever peopli is very usefulExcellent! Excellent!Very good! In education, the "creative" person is probably identified as an abstract learner. An Abstract learner, one who "collects" concepts, rules, processes and other seemingly non-connected paradigms. When the time comes for a certain task to be achieved,...
- Discussion threads 2007-11-03
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- Articles 2007-11-07
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- Articles 2007-10-12
- More Companies Firing People Over Social Media (Mis)use
- Employees should be more careful than ever about what sort of work-related information they post online. A new report indicates that companies are growing increasingly aware of inappropriate sharing, with many incidents resulting in someone getting fired. Proofpoint found that businesses have definitely become wary about blogs. An official statement...
- News items 2009-08-11
- For People Skills, Go Back to School
- John is a very successful CEO of a leading international payments business. He was reflecting on his hiring successes and failures. Quietly, he said "I find I hire most people for their technical skills and fire most for their lack of people skills". In one quick aside,...
- Blog posts 2008-09-02
- Flickr Adds People Tagging With Opt-Out Controls
- If you use Facebook, you're surely familiar with the option to tag the people in your photos. The feature both identifies them to viewers of the pic and lets them know a photo that includes them has been posted on the site. Today, venerable photo-sharing site Flickr...
- News items 2009-10-21
- Burglars Using Social Networks to Target People, Report Says
- Social networkers using sites like Facebook or Twitter may be leaving themselves open to burglery due to the personal information so many openly share, a report from insurance company Legal & General warns.Users of social networking sites are giving away vital information about themselves and their whereabouts that is being...
- News items 2009-08-29
- Why People Don't Get Global Warming: MIT Study
- Why People Don't Get Global Warming: MIT StudyRE: Why People Don't Get Global Warming: MIT StudyPeople don't get man made global warming because they know the planet gets its heat and weather from the big yellow thing that arrives every morning in the east. The warming (anti-manmade) freaks want us...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-31
- Understanding People People
- The Idea in Brief Looking for fresh ways to motivate your employees? Give them work that allows them to use their varied interpersonal talents. But first recognize that people skills are more nuanced than many...
- Articles 2008-03-10
- Prosper People-to-People Lending Market Survey
- SAN FRANCISCO -- Prosper (www.prosper.com), America's largest people-to-people lending marketplace, today released its September People-to-People Lending Market Survey. Prosper's People-to-People Lending Market Survey provides key statistics and a market commentary by Chris Larsen, Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of Prosper. Prosper's People-to-People Lending Market Survey is released on the...
- Research articles 2007-10-09
- People's Choice buys Phoenix. (People's Choice TV Corp., People's Choice TV of Phoenix)(Brief Article)
- People's Choice TV Corp. PCTV has completed acquisition of the approximately 17.5% interest in its People's Choice TV of Phoenix unit that it did not already own. People's Choice reports that it acquired the stake from ... People's Choice TV Corp. PCTV has completed acquisition of...
- Research articles 1995-10-23
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