Sky takeover saga to be decided by auction on Saturday September 20, 2018 The battle between 21st Century Fox and Comcast for media giant Sky will be decided by a three-round auction on Saturday unless a clear winner emerges before then, the Takeover Panel has confirmed. It will go to an auction unless one side submits its "final and best offer" or drops out by 5pm on Saturday, which is [...]
Sky takeover saga to be decided by auction on Saturday September 20, 2018 The battle between 21st Century Fox and Comcast for media giant Sky will be decided by a three-round auction on Saturday unless a clear winner emerges before then, the Takeover Panel has confirmed. It will go to an auction unless one side submits its "final and best offer" or drops out by 5pm on Saturday, which is [...]
Screenshot: Will Tim Davie win the generation game? October 30, 2020 A weekly column from City A.M. bringing you all the biggest stories and trends in technology, media and telecoms This week: ** Media Moment of the Week: A sorry soy saga ** Tim Davie and the BBC’s tug of war ** The tech titans’ tumultuous year Media Moment of the Week This week it’s another [...]
Video games firms tapped to feature in-game coronavirus health messages April 6, 2020 The government has teamed up with the British video games industry to insert public health information about coronavirus into some of their most popular hits. Candy Crush Saga, Sniper Elite 4 and Dirt Rally 2.0 are among the games that will feature the ‘Stay at Home, Save Lives’ slogan. The government has already launched ads [...]
Dominic Cummings ‘might’ have broken lockdown rules, say Durham Police May 28, 2020 Dominic Cummings “might have” broken lockdown rules when he made the 30-mile trip from Durham to Barnard Castle, according to the Durham Constabulary. In an official statement, the police force also said that Cummings’ initial trip from London to Durham was not in breach with the coronavirus lockdown laws. However, Durham police said the senior [...]
Renault, Nissan and Mitsubishi to increase technology sharing May 27, 2020 Renault, Nissan and Mitsubishi have announced details of a new strategy to deepen cooperation in developing and producing cars, in a bid for survival. The carmakers have been hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic just as they were reworking their partnership after the arrest of chairman Carlos Ghosn. Last year Ghosn made an astonishing escape [...]
Steelworks MP calls for changes to loan scheme after Tata bailout request April 27, 2020 The Labour MP for Aberavon, which contains Tata Steel’s Port Talbot steelworks, has written to chancellor Rishi Sunak asking him to lift the cap on the size of loans large companies can receive to limit the coronavirus damage. Yesterday it was reported that the firm, a subsidiary of giant Indian conglomerate Tata, was seeking £500m [...]
Russians tried to swing UK election with US trade papers used by Corbyn July 16, 2020 Russian actors attempted to interfere in the 2019 UK Election by disseminating a leaked confidential document later released by the Labour party, according to foreign secretary Dominic Raab. Raab released a statement today, confirming it is “almost certain that Russian actors sought to interfere in the 2019 general election through the online amplification” of confidential [...]
St Patrick’s Day: London celebrations canned due to coronavirus March 13, 2020 London’s St Patrick’s Day parade has been cancelled after performers dropped out due to mounting fears over the outbreak of coronavirus. Mayor of London Sadiq Khan said this morning that key performers were no longer able to take part in the annual Irish celebration. Khan said he was “incredibly disappointed” that the parade – which [...]
Bitcoin in context: the quantum leap October 8, 2020 Once again, bitcoin is on the precipice of another major directional move, which would dictate its end of year trajectory as we head deeper in the final quarter of a tumultuous 2020. Indeed, barely a week into October and the influx of headlines has everyone glued to their screens again; so much so that I [...]