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Video made nice and easy (17 October 01:00) |
| Video, in its various forms, has become the signature communication medium of the past few years. Think of YouTube, internet-based television and web-based services such as Joost (www.joost.... |
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Malone eyes up attractive debt purchases (17 October 09:45) |
| John Malone is eyeing the "wild" yields offered by the debt of other media and communications companies, echoing the tactics through which the Liberty Media L chairman built his cable empire... |
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Google adds gambling to revenue search (17 October 07:35) |
| Google GOOG is allowing gambling advertisements in its search results in Britain - for the first time anywhere in the world since a self-imposed moratorium in 2004. |
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A writer for troubled times (17 October 02:35) |
| It is 3am in New York but Mohamed El-Erian is not sleeping the contented sleep of a man who, only hours earlier, collected a prestigious prize for his book on world markets. He is up and pre... |
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Google shares soar on advertising hopes (17 October 02:10) |
| Google GOOG's share price soared late on Thursday, rallying 25 per cent from its low point of the day, as the internet search company's latest quarterly earnings proved resistant to the wide... |
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Break free from folly (16 October 02:50) |
| Everyday SurvivalWhy Smart People Do Stupid ThingsBy Laurence GonzalezWW Norton $25.95, £15.99As Wall Street struggles to find some respite from the carnage, the international financial sys... |
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A matriarchal leadership (16 October 02:50) |
| Carmen Riu was on a flight back to her base in Majorca recently when she spied two fellow chief executives also from the Spanish island: the heads of Air Europa and Sampol. Nothing noteworth... |
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Pearson sees year near top of range (15 October 11:55) |
| Full year earnings for Pearson will be toward the top of analysts' forecast range, the educational publisher said, pointing to a strengthening dollar and audience growth at the Financial Tim... |
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Revenue up 13% and Experian retains website (15 October 09:55) |
| The chief executive of Experian said clients were "asking us for help as never before", as the credit checking group reported a 13 per cent rise in first-half revenues and said it would reta... |
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Experian cancels PriceGrabber sale (15 October 02:45) |
| Shares in Experian fell in early trade on news that the financial information company would retain PriceGrabber. |
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Experian set to keep PriceGrabber (15 October 01:05) |
| Experian said it would retain PriceGrabber, its comparison site business, saying a disposal in the current funding environment was "not in the best interests of shareholders". |
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Pearson on course to meet forecasts (15 October 12:35) |
| Pearson's full year earnings will be toward the top of analysts' forecast range, the educational publisher said on Wednesday, pointing to a strengthening dollar and audience growth at the Fi... |
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Sorrell settles bitter legal dispute (15 October 07:15) |
| Sir Martin Sorrell, chief executive of the advertising group WPP, has been spared a potentially uncomfortable appearance in a High Court witness box after settling a long-running legal battl... |
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Virgin reprimand over broadband speeds (15 October 04:35) |
| Virgin Media has been reprimanded by regulators for misleading consumers about its broadband speeds in a recent advertising campaign. |
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Virgin misled on broadband speeds (15 October 04:35) |
| Virgin Media has been reprimanded by regulators for misleading consumers about its broadband speeds in a recent advertising campaign. |
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Greenhill lures bankers for Japan firm (15 October 04:05) |
| Greenhill has hired bankers Kensuke Hotta and Hiroto Yamada to launch an advisory business in Japan, where it will guide companies through domestic deals and cross-border investments into th... |
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Why public ownership is a failed model (15 October 02:50) |
| There is another victim of the credit crunch: the publicly traded model of ownership. The near-collapse of many of the large banks in perhaps a dozen countries shows that such corporate stru... |
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Persistence amid prejudice (15 October 02:50) |
| If Kiran Mazumdar Shaw had had her way, she would have been a brewer. Inspired by her father, a brewmaster at United Breweries, Ms Mazumdar Shaw qualified as a master brewer at Ballarat Univ... |
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Search for chapter and verse on e-prices (15 October 02:05) |
| Want to know how to silence a book publisher? Ask him about his pricing strategy for electronic books. It is a subject guaranteed to send a shiver down the spine of an industry suffering fro... |
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Shaw Brothers calls off sale of TVB stake (15 October 01:10) |
| Sir Run Run Shaw, the centenarian founder and chairman of Television Broadcasts (TVB), on Tuesday became the latest victim of the global financial turmoil after talks to sell his stake in th... |
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Hard-won career in crossover music (14 October 10:55) |
| Kanya King has a fantastic laugh. It is halfway between witch's cackle and end-of-the-pier saucy chuckle. It has a habit of breaking out during any extended conversation with the 38-year-old... |
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Carphone rolls out Best Buy expansion plans (14 October 06:30) |
| Carphone Warehouse on Tuesday outlined an initial £90m investment plan for its joint venture with Best Buy of the US to build a European chain of shops selling consumer electronics goods un... |
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JCDecaux drops plan to buy Murdoch business (14 October 03:45) |
| JCDecaux, the French advertising group, on Tuesday abandoned exclusive talks with Rupert Murdoch over the purchase of his emerging markets billboard business, citing market conditions. |
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MP3 players can damage hearing, warns EU (14 October 07:40) |
| Personal music players such as Apple's iPod could cause long-term hearing damage among millions of users, the European Union warned on Monday. |
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Creditors back Virgin Media debt shake-up (14 October 04:25) |
| Virgin Media shares rose by a quarter after the cable television group said it had persuaded its 10 biggest creditors to support moves to rearrange its debt of more than £4bn. |
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Spielberg stages return to Universal (14 October 03:55) |
| Steven Spielberg has returned to Universal Studios, where he made his name as a young director, after striking a seven-year distribution deal for his DreamWorks company. |
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TV ad rates fall to 15-year lows (14 October 03:25) |
| The outlook darkened further for the UK advertising market as media pricing and marketing revenues hit record lows in the third quarter. |
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Well read and well led (14 October 12:50) |
| Earlier this year, the steelmaker Corus decided to get the workforce in its Port Talbot plant reading by giving away books. "It was part of the National Year of Reading," explains Corus spok... |
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What failed? Ask management (14 October 12:50) |
| We may never know who really wrote that internal Lehman Brothers LEH memo of June 8 this year, but it certainly asked the right question. "Why did we allow ourselves to be so exposed?" it de... |
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Discord and dialogue (14 October 12:50) |
| In November 2006, a contingent of Japanese businessmen from NEC Electronics visited the offices of Perry Capital, an investment fund based on Fifth Avenue in New York. |
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France's media challenger (13 October 02:05) |
| The dry croissants and plastic coffee cups speak volumes about Alain Weill, France's most intriguing media entrepreneur. |
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Staff sing from one hymn sheet (13 October 02:05) |
| It's one of the oldest jokes there is, points out Sir Howard Stringer, chairman and chief executive of Sony SNE: "How do you get to Carnegie Hall? Practice, practice, practice." |
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The supercalifragilistic answer (13 October 02:05) |
| When I was about 10, my favourite bit from the film Mary Poppins was when Mary reaches into her empty carpet-bag and whips out a pair of lilac high-heeled shoes. This made a lot of sense to ... |
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Funding freeze casts shadow on silver screen (12 October 10:50) |
| He may be the king of the silver screen, but it seems not even Steven Spielberg can thaw the freeze in credit markets. |
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C4 pulls plug on digital radio plan (11 October 09:05) |
| Channel 4 on Friday blamed the economic crisis as it announced it was cancelling plans to become a digital radio broadcaster and pulling out of a consortium in which it was the majority shar... |
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C4 pulls plug on digital radio plans (10 October 04:05) |
| Channel 4 announced on Friday it was cancelling plans to become a digital radio broadcaster and pulling out of a consortium in which it is the majority shareholder. |
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IBM in the Forbidden City (09 October 11:25) |
| The only way to get a true feel for the Forbidden City, the vast moated palace built 600 years ago for China's emperors, is to peer into its grand multi-eved halls, cross its expansive plaza... |
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Make a new connection (09 October 11:25) |
| Whenever I travel on business with a laptop I always ensure I have several internet connection options so there is an alternative if a WiFi connection fails or I feel I will be overcharged f... |
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A step up for senior women (09 October 03:00) |
| Anne Bouverot, head of international business development at Orange France Telecom FTE, has first-hand experience of the benefits of mentoring by a senior corporate leader. She is about to j... |
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Capitalism can still do good (09 October 03:00) |
| PhilanthrocapitalismHow the Rich Can Save the WorldMatthew Bishop and Michael GreenBloomsbury $27, A&C Black £16.99This is not the ideal time to publish a book on how very wealthy people - ... |
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US online advertising blow (08 October 09:15) |
| Spending on online advertising in the US decelerated sharply even before the financial crisis of recent weeks, according to figures released on Tuesday, denting hopes that the main source of... |
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Silver lining for TV advertisers (08 October 09:00) |
| As experts on Tuesday predicted tougher times for UK advertising spending, Ofcom, the broadcasting regulator, offered some hope to the beleaguered sector. |
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EMI jostles into busy online market (08 October 08:15) |
| EMI is planning to enter the crowded digital music market, forming its own site to join the likes of iTunes and MySpace and marketing its artists' music directly to fans online. |
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RBI sale appears uncertain (08 October 04:00) |
| The sale of media publisher Reed Business Information appeared uncertain on Tuesday amid difficulty in financing the deal. |
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Advertising spending growth slows (08 October 03:15) |
| Global advertising spending will suffer as economic uncertainty undermines consumer confidence, according to ZenithOptimedia, which slashed its growth forecasts for 2008 and 2009. |
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Energy to build a better world (08 October 12:00) |
| John Clough is a rarity among plc chief executives; a man whose early personal experience suffuses the business organisation he leads. |
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Jobs killed by well-meant rules on work (08 October 12:00) |
| The most important thing I have done in my professional life is create jobs. That is the case for everyone who runs and owns a growing business. Their personal objective may be to control th... |
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The dotcom evangelist (08 October 12:00) |
| God and geeks make a fruitful combination, says Johan Jörgensen, Swedish internet entrepreneur. So do the Bible and business. |
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Dilemma of deciding if a cut-price asset is a bargain (08 October 12:00) |
| Financial turmoil is forcing some companies, especially in banking and financial services, to consider break-up or takeover at prices a fraction of those they would have received in the good... |
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Yell renegotiates debt payments (07 October 12:40) |
| Yell, the highly geared UK directories company, on Tuesday said it had successfully renegotiated its covenants following protracted talks with its lending syndicate. |
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